‘Brexit dividend’ shields UK from Trump trade war after EU cave-in – Brussels insider | Politics | News

A senior Brussels -based analyst, Britain’s own independent trade policy, said Donald Trump’s burden of increasing trade war thanks to the “Brexit dividend”. Pieter Cleppe, EU Observer and Editor for a long time BrusselsrePort.euHe warned that Britain’s relative freedom of Washington’s tariff threats emphasized one of the “first major Brexit gains”, and that the EU’s position is increasingly dangerous from a series of concessions under pressure.

The European Commission weighs a third retaliation measure wave against Mr. Trump’s comprehensive import tariffs. Although the UK has already accepted a 10% standard tariff with the US, the EU is now faced with a 30% threat of blanket tax on its property, and faces with the possibility of harsh penalties if it progresses with counter measures. “Now we can conclude that Britain’s first major Brexit victory represents one of the first major Brexit victory of Britain’s agreement with the EU. While Trump continues to disturb the EU with a 30% initial tariff and worse threats,” Mr. Cleppe said: “

The authority added: “Britain did not threaten against the counter-tariffs, it was not forced to make concessions that eroding financial and regulatory sovereignty.

The most important point of the divergence is digital taxation. Although the EU has scrapped plans to bring a tax to large technology companies such as Apple, Meta and Amazon, Britain continued its own national digital service tax after Washington’s pressure – Mr. Cleppe said that Britain would be prevented if the EU is under its joint foreign trade policy.

The Commission officially abandoned the digital tax proposal on July 11, which was interpreted as a political privilege just a few days before a potential agreement with Washington.

“Trump is already forcing the EU to leave a digital tax proposal, while England can maintain this regulation,” Mr. Cleppe said.

Another flashpoint is a gradual anti-fuel arrangement, a complex new frame, which requires that the EU’s products are not related to the illegal land route of their products. After making months lobbying for months from the US Trade Representative Office (USTR), the commission gave the US a “low-risk” classification-which was effectively exempt from the most strict obligations.

The decision led to anger between other export countries, especially Malaysia and Indonesia.

“Another example of the privilege of exemption from the EU’s newly anti -destroyed rules of the United States is another example.

“Trump complained about it and the EU was defeated.

“Meanwhile, other trade partners of the EU, such as Malaysia, have greatly reduced Malaysia’s primary forest loss, but to be exposed to numerous imported bureaucracy and dark EU regulatory definitions.”

Although the EU member states are divided on how Mr. Trump will be responded to increasing tariffs, the European commission proposed a second retaliation package worth 72 billion € (£ 62 billion), which targets sectors, including automobiles, aircraft and agricultural machinery.

The first wave of tariffs covering € 21 billion (£ 18 billion) in US exports was already approved, but it was suspended until 6 August to include for negotiations.

Trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic also increased the possibility of targeting services, including restrictions on American companies that have access to EU supply agreements or operate freely in digital markets, and the diplomats reacted carefully with fear of all trade war.

French President Emmanuel Macron would require support from the qualified majority of the member states of the EU, a legal mechanism that would allow Brussels to retaliate in a broader way, including non-good sectors.

On the other hand, he said he did not face such restrictions, which are not dependent on EU trade mechanisms based on the British-integrated consensus.

Daily Express said that the separation has become clearer: “What Brexit has provided is ‘Brexit dividend’. If Britain was still dependent on the EU trade policy, it may now have to follow Brussels to such conflicts and give up sovereignty in the process.”

In a letter summarizing his decision to the EU, Trump said: “We spent years to discuss our trade relationship with the European Union and concluded that we need to move away from this long -term, large and persistent, trade deficits, tariffs and tariffs, non -tariffs and trade barriers.

“Unfortunately, our relationship was far from being mutual.”