At first the US President treated himself to a round of Golf before he received EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in his luxurious golf hotel on the west coast of Scotland in the early Sunday evening.
There are still three to four sticking points, Donald Trump said before the decisive conversation began that a trade war between the two closely intertwined economic partners should avert.
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Without an agreement, Trump had threatened it, he wanted to raise 30 percent inches from the EU from August 1.
A little more than an hour later, the US President announced that the United States and the European Union had agreed on a trade agreement with a 15 percent customs rate for goods imports from the EU to the USA.
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Information from EU circles had already indicated this before the conversation. According to this, the Saturday evening was also discussed in a conversation between EU diplomat with US trade minister Howard Lutnick. There were also exceptions to the customs basis set-for example for the commercial areas aircraft, wood and spirits. The extent to which this had existed after the talk from Trump and the Leyen remained open on Sunday evening.
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Source: Nachrichten
