EU Parliament passes transatlantic trade deal

By Camille Gijs
Politico EU
June 16, 2026
Category: Business & Politics
Region: United States, International

The European Parliament approved legislation on Tuesday to implement the EU’s trade deal with the United States, marking one of the final hurdles in a process that has repeatedly frustrated the Trump administration. Lawmakers voted by 440 in favor, with 151 against and 50 abstaining, to approve changes to legislation to remove tariffs on U.S. industrial goods and some agricultural products — fulfilling the EU’s side of the agreement struck last July at President Donald Trump’s golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland.  Washington had agreed to cap tariffs on most EU exports at 15 percent and to lower levies on European cars. Those changes took effect last fall. …The Council of the EU — representing EU governments — is now expected to rubber-stamp the texts on June 26, before they are officially published in the EU’s Official Journal and enter into force. 

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