{"id":311567,"date":"2025-11-24T21:56:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/311567\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:56:16","slug":"us-demands-digital-concessions-in-return-for-eu-steel-tariff-relief-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/311567\/","title":{"rendered":"US demands digital concessions in return for EU steel tariff relief \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That trade deal, which President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen clinched at Trump\u2019s Turnberry golf resort in Scotland, <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/de\/statement_25_1915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sets a baseline tariff of 15 percent<\/a> on most EU imports to the U.S., while the EU committed to cutting most of its own tariffs to zero. At the time, the EU and the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/de\/statement_25_1915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pledged to work together<\/a> to reduce tariffs on steel and aluminum \u2014 but remained vague on the details.<\/p>\n<p>After the Europeans raised the steel tariffs on Monday, Lutnick responded by calling on the EU to \u201canalyze their digital rules, trying to come away with a balance &#8230; not put them away, but find a balanced approach that works with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if they can come up with that balanced approach, which I think they can, then we will, together with them, handle the steel and aluminum issues and bring that on together,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Lutnick\u2019s remarks signal a departure from the previous U.S. position, which threatened to retaliate against the bloc\u2019s digital laws, while advocating for light-touch artificial intelligence regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lutnick sold the loosening of the bloc\u2019s digital rules as an \u201copportunity\u201d for the EU, offering U.S. investment in return, mainly through data centers that could power artificial intelligence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the European Union can find a way to have a balanced digital set of rules, I think the European Union can see $1 trillion of investment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That trade deal, which President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen clinched at Trump\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[26357,23,181,144,2788,11190,12,7262,162,73972,26358,3,103311,28323,9107,9121,7389,759,447,21,19,22,20,5102,25,24],"class_list":["post-311567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-aluminum","tag-america","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-china","tag-data","tag-data-protection","tag-donald-trump","tag-henna-virkkunen","tag-investment","tag-lars-lokke-rasmussen","tag-maros-sefcovic","tag-news","tag-omnibus","tag-overcapacity","tag-regulation","tag-scotland","tag-steel","tag-tariffs","tag-trade","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311567","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=311567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}