Overview
- MEPs, who voted Thursday, approved two legal texts to implement the Turnberry deal and scrap most EU duties on U.S. industrial goods by 417–154 and 437–144.
- Parliament added a suspension clause that restores EU tariffs if Washington undermines the deal, discriminates against EU firms, threatens territorial integrity, or uses economic coercion.
- MEPs made EU tariff cuts conditional on the U.S. lifting 50% duties on hundreds of steel‑derivative goods through a sunrise clause, and set the deal to expire on March 31, 2028.
- Next steps move fast, with Parliament negotiators set to open talks with EU governments from April 13, as trade chief Maroš Šefčovič meets U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Friday in Yaoundé to address steel tariffs and a 10% interim U.S. duty.
- The vote follows Trump’s 2025 tariff blitz and the Greenland dispute, and it comes as the EU pursues new trade pacts with Mercosur, India and Australia to spread risk beyond any single partner.