Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (The Moderate Party) says that he thinks "both and" about the customs agreement that was concluded between the EU and the USA on Sunday evening. There is really both sweet and sour in this agreement, he says.
BusinessThe customs agreement that the EU and the USA have entered into means that we are now entering "a completely new era" – when one violates the WTO's principle of equal treatment, according to Per Altenberg, chief economist at the National Board of Trade. It was this situation that the principle was intended to prevent, he says.
BusinessThe customs agreement between the EU and the USA creates, according to Minister for Foreign Trade Benjamin Dousa (The Moderate Party), "some predictability" for Sweden's part. "This agreement makes no one richer, but is perhaps the least bad alternative", he says in a written comment to TT.
BusinessUSA and EU are in agreement on American import duties of 15 percent on goods from EU, including cars. The union commits at the same time to invest in and buy energy from USA for thousands of billions of kronor. It is the largest agreement of all, says USA's president Donald Trump.
BusinessUSA's president Donald Trump is traveling to Scotland where he, among other things, will meet the EU Commission's chairman Ursula von der Leyen. He puts the chance of a customs agreement with the EU at 50 percent.
BusinessBeijing and Brussels have agreed to lead the world in the fight against climate change at a time when the US, under Donald Trump, is withdrawing during a summit in Beijing. The "decisive factor" for the EU in the cooperation is now China's relationship with Russia.
WorldAfter a massive wave of criticism, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyj presents a new bill that is to preserve the independence of the country's anti-corruption agency, he writes on Telegram. At the same time, thousands of Ukrainians continue to protest against the government in Kyiv on Wednesday evening.
ConflictsAlmost daily, the National Board of Trade's customs duty hotline receives calls from small and large companies in Sweden. The calls come from companies that are worried about customs duties that have already been introduced, for those that Trump has indicated he will introduce – and for the EU's countermeasures.
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