Benjamin Haddad welcomes the customs duties agreement between the EU and Trump, but considers that “unbalanced”

You can do better. The commercial agreement between the United States and the EU that establishes the tasks of US customs about 15% European products provides “temporary stability”, but remains “unbalanced,” lamented on Monday, July 28, the French minister responsible for Europe Benjamin Haddad.

However, “it has the merit of exempting tariffs from the key sectors for the French economy (aeronautics, spirits, drugs). The agreement has excluded any concession for our sensitive agricultural sectors. It also preserves our European regulations on issues such as digital or sanitary,” said the minister responsible for Europe.

“Disregard” of WTO rules

However, Benjamin Haddad asks for lucidity, regretting that “the United States rejects the shared prosperity of the two Atlantic banks since the end of World War II.

Benjamin Haddad invites you to “fight to continue looking for commercial balance with the United States.” The minister suggests, for example, to address the “American digital services” imported to France and “that persist in benefiting from the fiscal law in Europe.”