{"id":182937,"date":"2025-09-26T12:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/182937\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T12:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:27:08","slug":"nearly-half-of-us-companies-in-europe-expect-declining-economic-ties-survey-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/182937\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly half of US companies in Europe expect declining economic ties, survey shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Almost half of U.S. companies operating in Europe believe transatlantic economic relations will worsen, although that is a marked improvement from the start of U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a>‘s second term, according to a survey published on Friday.<\/p>\n

The American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU), which has more than 160 members including Apple<\/a>, Goldman Sachs, Meta Platforms and Visa, said its survey showed 46% of respondents expected worsening EU-U.S. trade and investment ties, compared with 89% in a similar survey in January.<\/p>\n

A third now expect stability after the European Union and the United States struck a trade deal at the end of July, which is set to remove most EU duties on U.S. goods, while the United States imposes 15% import tariffs<\/a> on most EU products.<\/p>\n

AmCham said companies viewed the deal positively, despite criticism in Brussels and EU capitals.<\/p>\n

“They see it as having averted unprecedented damage to transatlantic trade and investment, even as real concerns about the policy environment remain,” said AmCham EU CEO Malte Lohan.<\/p>\n

A majority of the companies still anticipate a negative impact from Washington and Brussels policies – 60% for the United States and 56% for the European Union.<\/p>\n

The survey, carried out among 52 U.S.-controlled members between September 8 and 16, showed that reducing tariffs was still the number one priority.<\/p>\n

The companies also stressed the need for addressing non-tariff barriers, such as EU rules on deforestation and supply chains, and stronger cooperation and mutual recognition of standards.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Philip Blenkinsop in BrusselsEditing by Bill Berkrot)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Almost half of U.S. companies operating in Europe believe transatlantic economic relations will worsen, although that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[90843,28,101,1076,5335,28222,942,107967],"class_list":["post-182937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-american-chamber-of-commerce","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-goldman-sachs","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-transatlantic-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}