Europe Union Lawmakers Approve Much-Delayed Trade Deal With U.S.

The European Parliament approved a major part of the trade deal that it settled on with the United States last summer at President Trump’s golf course in Turnberry, Scotland — nearly a year after the agreement was struck.

European Union lawmakers agreed to cut tariffs to zero on American industrial goods, including machinery and car parts, and on lobster. It will also reduce levies on some American agricultural products. In exchange, tariffs on many European goods exported to the United States should remain taxed around 15 percent (but sometimes more).

The decision ran up against the clock. Mr. Trump, frustrated with Europe’s slow progress toward agreeing to the deal, had threatened “much higher” tariffs on European products if it wasn’t finalized by July 4.

“With this milestone, we are days away from fulfilling our commitment to remove tariffs on imports of US industrial goods,” Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, posted on social media after the vote.

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