EU-US trade deal: Yes to de-escalation – No to a one-way street

With the widespread introduction of new (high) tariffs, the US government has brought about nothing less than a paradigm shift in decades of American trade policy: away from free trade wherever possible and toward a marked isolation of the US market. This paper analyses the potential impact of US tariff policy on the German electrical and digital industry (EDI). In addition, the ZVEI position paper formulates the resulting demands to policymakers at the German and European level.

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