During a meeting with the EU’s 27 envoys on Wednesday, the new head of the Commission’s trade department, Ditte Juul Jørgensen, stated that although Brussels was confident Washington would adhere to the Turnberry deal commitments, it was prepared to respond if it did not, three EU diplomats familiar with the conversation told POLITICO.
One diplomat mentioned that ambassadors could convene an extraordinary meeting next week “to talk strategy and discuss possible countermeasures.”
Currently, it is unclear when the next tariffs will be imposed.
“We’re not focused on a particular timeline. We’re focused on fulfilling the legal and statutory requirements,” Greer said after a U.S. Senate hearing.
Although the administration has yet to finalize tariffs under the most immediate investigation into forced labor imports, it has several legal avenues to prevent a gap once the temporary tariffs—imposed under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974—expire.
Washington might reissue the 10 percent tariff for another 150 days or declare that any new tariffs retroactively began on July 25, according to Greta Peisch, who was general counsel for the U.S. Trade Representative under former President Joe Biden. These options are legally precarious, with a U.S. trade court having ruled that Trump’s use of the measure to impose the 10 percent duty is illegal.
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