Customs rights: France judges the EU-US agreement “unbalanced”, Bayrou deplores a “submission”

The trade agreement concluded Sunday between the United States and the European Union has advantages, especially for certain sectors, but it is unbalanced and does not include a section on services, several French political leaders say on Monday, while François Bayrou sees it as “a submission”.

“It is a dark day that when an alliance of free peoples. In addition, gathered to assert their values and defend their interests, resolves to submission,” writes the head of government on the social customs rights: france judges eu-us network X.

“The trade agreement negotiated by the European Commission with the United States will bring temporary stability to economic actors threatened by American climbing. Nevertheless, but it is unbalanced,” writes Benjamin Haddad, French Minister Delegate in charge of Europe, on X.

Guest Monday from France Inter. Nevertheless, Laurent Saint-Martin, Minister Delegate to the Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, in charge of foreign trade and French from abroad, has abounded in the same direction.

“The good news this morning is that there is an agreement and therefore our businesses have visibility. For example, And therefore there is stability now in the commercial transatlantic relationship for the investment between the European Union. Therefore, the United States,” he said, stressing that companies feared that this uncertainty is transformed into inability to invest.

The United States. the European Union (EU) concluded on Sunday a commercial agreement establishing customs duties of 15% on most customs rights: france judges eu-us of the products of the 27 Member States while President Donald Trump threatened to impose 30% from European exports from August 1.

The framework agreement between the European Union. the United States, however, remains at this still vague stage and several French ministers have insisted on the need to improve it.

“This agreement is not balanced and therefore we will have to continue to work, in particular on the service part. Finally. this agreement essentially concerns goods, taxes on goods, on manufactured products, and I believe that there is a lot of work to do as on another commercial imbalance that sometimes Donald Trump forgets to quote who is that of services and in particular digital services,” said Laurent Saint-Martin.

On the social network X. Benjamin Haddad noted that the agreement had “the merit of exempting customs duties from the key sectors for the French economy (aeronautics, spirits, drugs)”, without more details.

Asked about customs rights: france judges eu-us the subject, Laurent Saint-Martin was more prudent, saying that “spirits should actually be in the agreement.” However. he pointed out that these sectoral exemptions were very important for France, judging the essential aeronautics sector for the trade balance of France.

Marc Ferracci has shown the same caution on the sectors likely to escape new customs rights.

“Some important sectors for European industry, such as aeronautics, such as spirits, should be exempt,” he said on RTL.

“We will have the details of this agreement during the day. Then, a technical negotiation will take place in the coming weeks,” he added.

Discussions continue to be concerned about possible exemptions on customs duties for the wine. spirits sectors, a official of the European Commission said on Monday.

He added that discussions on this subject were more advanced in the spirits of spirits. as opposed to the wine sector.

“Not much again” on purchases

The agreement between Washington. Brussels customs rights: france judges eu-us also provides, according to Donald Trump, $ 600 billion in EU EU investments in the United States, as well as the purchase by the community energy block – for $ 750 billion – and American military equipment.

This component is actually not new and corresponds to commitments already made in the past, noted Laurent Saint-Martin.

“These are honestly. purchasing agreements that have more or less corresponding to the energy that the energeticists had already granted between themselves. So there is not much again to be honest on these purchasing commitments,” he said.

“American LNG also makes it possible to get out of Russian gas. These are also things in the interest of the European Union at this level. European investments in the United States, it is not bad news in itself. We need French companies that invest in American territory and vice versa”.

“This part of the agreement itself is frankly good in fact,” customs rights: france judges eu-us he concluded.

(Written by Claude Chendjou. with Kate Abnett, Phil Blenkinsop, Sudip Kar-Gupta, Michel Rose, Sudip Kar-Gupta and Camille Raynaud, edited by Kate Entringer and Augustin Turpin)