The EU eyes countermeasures as the Trump administration threatens to impose 30% tariffs from Aug. 1 on goods imported from the region. Read more here.

"The EU and China are broadly on a colliding trajectory in terms of their trade and industrial policy concerns," he told CNBC. Bones of contention include the challenge of China's overcapacity and trade diversion to Europe, Stec, who is also head of the Mercator Institute's Brussels office, explained.

The European Union braced on Friday to receive a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump, outlining planned duties on his largest trade and investment partner after a broadening of his tariff war in recent days.

Japan, which Trump said Monday faces a 25% tariff, wants concessions for its large automobile industry and will not sacrifice its agriculture sector for an early deal, top trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa said.

It is worth nothing that the effective tariff rate being imposed by the US on the rest of the world is now about 15%, having been between 2% and 4% for the past 40 years. This is before the further changes in these letters. The market reaction is calm for now. It might not stay that way.

The EU and the US are preparing for a trade deal involving the US imposing a baseline 10% tariff on EU goods, according to several sources briefed by EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič. A preliminary agreement is expected to be concluded by Wednesday,

The European Union is working to avoid new U.S. tariffs that President Trump announced for various countries. EU sources suggest potential exemptions and limited concessions, especially benefiting German carmakers,

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