EU, Trump and Trade Deal
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US stocks were mixed Monday and the S&P 500 was on the verge of snapping a five-day win streak as investors digested the announcement of a trade deal between Washington and Brussels. Stocks fluctuated between gains and losses Monday afternoon after President Donald Trump and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday announced a framework for a US-EU trade deal.
The tariffs, or import taxes, paid when Americans buy European products could raise prices for US consumers and dent profits for European companies and their partners who bring goods into the country.
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Less than a day after President Donald Trump claimed that the European Union had agreed to invest $600 billion into the United States as part of a trade deal that will see Trump ask Americans to shoulder a 15 percent import tax on many European goods, EU officials are quietly backtracking.
European capitals are putting a brave face on the trade deal they struck with President Donald Trump, which will see the European Union accept a 15% tariff on most of its exports to the US while reducing levies on some American products to zero.
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