The European Parliament Committee votes in favor of the European American trade agreement

Brussels, June 2 (Xinhua) -- The European Parliament's International Trade Committee voted on June 2 to support the European American trade agreement in order to avoid a resurgence of transatlantic tariff conflicts.

On that day, the International Trade Committee of the European Parliament supported the passage of relevant legislation to implement tariff reduction measures with 31 votes in favor, 6 votes against, and 3 abstentions. The relevant legislation ultimately needs to be approved by the plenary session of the European Parliament in mid June.

European Parliament International Trade Committee Chairman Lang said he expects the United States to comply with the agreement. He said that the United States has seriously violated the agreement at least three times since July last year.

Europe and the United States reached a trade agreement in July 2025, which includes the EU suspending tariffs on all American industrial products and establishing a tariff quota system for a large number of American agricultural and food products entering the EU market, in exchange for the US imposing a 15% tariff on most EU exports to the US.

Due to the tension in European American relations caused by the United States' demand for Greenland, a Danish autonomous territory, and the US Supreme Court's ruling that the Trump administration's large-scale tariff policies are illegal, the EU's approval of the European American trade agreement has been delayed for several months. US President Trump previously threatened to significantly increase tariffs on EU exports to the US if the EU fails to fulfill the agreement by July 4th.

The European Commission and the majority of EU member states hope to approve the agreement as soon as possible in order to provide certainty for businesses. However, members of multiple political groups within the European Parliament have refused to hastily release the agreement without a safeguard mechanism, demanding the inclusion of multiple safeguard clauses in the agreement to address potential new tariff measures or other unilateral actions by the United States in the future.