{"id":156580,"date":"2025-07-11T08:41:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T08:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/eu-awaits-letter-from-donald-trump-outlining-new-tariffs-europe-live-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T08:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T08:41:39","slug":"eu-awaits-letter-from-donald-trump-outlining-new-tariffs-europe-live-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/eu-awaits-letter-from-donald-trump-outlining-new-tariffs-europe-live-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"EU awaits letter from Donald Trump outlining new tariffs \u2013 Europe live – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump said overnight that group of US trading partners, including the bloc, would get a letter \u2018today or tomorrow\u2019
in Brussels<\/em>
Elsewhere, the EU\u2019s diplomatic service has drawn up a list of options to sanction Israel<\/strong>, after finding \u201cindications\u201d that the Middle Eastern country had breached its human rights obligations<\/strong> over its conduct in Gaza and the West Bank.
A document for EU foreign ministers to discuss next week outlines ten options, such as suspending the EU-Israel association agreement or visa-free-travel for Israelis,<\/strong> freezing preferential trade terms, or terminating Israel\u2019s participation in Europe\u2019s research and student exchange programmes.
The five-page text seen by the Guardian, first reported by Reuters, makes no recommendations.<\/strong>
It remains unclear if any of the proposals will gain traction.<\/strong> So far only one member state, Spain, has pushed for the suspension of the EU-Israel association agreement, which requires unanimity. Even governments that are Palestine\u2019s strongest supporters in the EU are reluctant to back any move to reduce people-to-people contacts.
The paper emerged after EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas announced a potentially-significant deal with Israel to increase humanitarian aid to Gaza.<\/strong>
In a statement<\/a> on Thursday Kallas said Israel had agreed to \u201cthe substantial increase of daily trucks for food and non-food items to enter Gaza\u201d<\/strong>, as well as the reopening of the Jordanian and Syrian aid routes, distribution of food from bakers and public kitchens and resumption of water supply to the water desalination facility.
A spokesperson for Kallas said the agreement was the outcome of a dialogue Kallas launched with Israel\u2019s foreign minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar.<\/strong> Her pledge to raise the humanitarian crisis with Israel<\/a> was made after the completion of the review of the EU-Israel agreement.
One open question is whether Kallas and EU member states now feel enough has been done to pressure Israel to change course<\/strong>, or whether more is needed. The EU response will certainly reflect how Israel implements the aid deal.
\u201cWe count on Israel to implement every measure agreed,\u201d<\/strong> Kallas said.
The EU and financial markets are on nervous standby<\/strong> to see if Donald Trump<\/strong> will carry through with his latest threat to hike import duties to 15% or 20%.
If he does it would signal a breach of good faith in negotiations<\/strong> which intensified in the past 10 days and almost certainly lead to calls for counter tariffs.<\/p>\n

Trade ministers meet in Brussels on Monday and are expected to agree to extend its current 90 day pause on retaliation<\/strong> if a deal is announced today or over the weekend.<\/p>\n

It has threatened 25% tariff on more than \u20ac20bn worth of US imports but paused them to create space for negotiations.<\/p>\n

On Thursday night Trump ramped up his assault on Canada<\/strong> declaring he would impose a 35% tariff on imports next month and planned to impose blanket tariffs of 15% or 20% on most other trading partners adding the EU and Canada could receive tariff letters by Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot everybody has to get a letter.<\/strong> You know that. We\u2019re just setting our tariffs,\u201d Trump told NBC News.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just going to say all of the remaining countries are going to pay<\/strong>, whether it\u2019s 20% or 15%. We\u2019ll work that out now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The declaration<\/strong> will have exasperated EU leaders who were already resigned to taking a 10% tariff as the price of doing trade with Trump<\/strong>, an import duty rate five times the average rate that applied before he was inaugurated in January.<\/p>\n

EU diplomats said an agreement in principle is effectively on Trump\u2019s desk waiting to be approved since Wednesday<\/strong>, his original self-imposed deadline for a deal.
The EU could learn about Donald Trump\u2019s proposal on tariffs today<\/strong>, after he said overnight a group of US trading partners, including the bloc, would get a letter \u201ctoday or tomorrow\u201d.
He said:
\u201cI\u2019m talking European Union<\/strong>, which is, as you know, many countries, and Canada. We\u2019ll be putting them out over the next couple of hours.\u201d<\/em>
He later issued a letter to Canada, ramping up the proposed tariffs to 35%, up from the current 25%, and threatening to increase it further if Ottawa seeks to retaliate.
Not a great sign.<\/em>
You can imagine lots of EU diplomats will be nervously refreshing Truth Social today.<\/strong>
It\u2019s Friday, 11 July 2025<\/strong>, it\u2019s Jakub Krupa<\/strong> here, and this is Europe Live.<\/strong>
Good morning.<\/p>\n

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