EU Set to Freeze US Trade Deal Approval Over Tariff Risk
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EU Set to Freeze US Trade Deal Approval Over Tariff Risk
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-23/eu-set-to-freeze-us-trade-deal-approval-over-trump-tariff-risk
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*Jorge Valero for Bloomberg News*
The European Union is poised to freeze the ratification process of its trade deal with the US and is seeking more details from President Donald Trump’s administration on its new tariff program.
The main political groups in the European Parliament say they’ll suspend legislative work on approving the trade deal on Monday, days after the US Supreme Court struck down Trump’s use of an emergency-powers law to impose his so-called reciprocal tariffs around the world.
Zeljana Zovko, the lead trade negotiator in the European People’s Party group on the US deal, said in an interview with Bloomberg that “we have no other option” but to delay the approval process to seek to clarity on the situation.
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What is the point of a deal when the US is changing the rules from day to day?
We should be adding tariffs on their products and services – like China did.
The US is ran by complete idiots and it shows.
As long as the orange man is in power, there is no agreement because an agreement is not an agreement, but his will which changes from hour to hour.
It’s an easy two step process:
1. Delay until Midterms
2. Kill it
Everything else means gifting a win to a pedophile that’s also a Russian asset, that they are desperate for but don’t deserve.
Fuck freeze, just cancel. Trump won’t hesitate two seconds to betray the deal when his dementia addled brain feels like it, but we will. All we’re doing is shackling ourselves.
Who is the enemy of the EU?
A) Russia
B) USA
C) UK
D) India
E) China
F) All of the above
Not even the art of the deal can break through EU bureaucracy.
Can’t we elect an actual Oranutang to some ceremonial president of the EU position and just put the two of them together whenever he wants to renegotiate?
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By Jorge Valero
February 23, 2026 at 10:26 AM UTC
*Updated on* *February 23, 2026 at 10:41 AM UTC*
# Takeaways by Bloomberg AI
* The European Union is poised to freeze the ratification process of its trade deal with the US and is seeking more details from President Donald Trump’s administration on its new tariff program.
* The main political groups in the European Parliament will suspend legislative work on approving the trade deal to seek clarity on the situation.
* EU lawmakers had been aiming to ratify the agreement in March, but the trade deal has already faced a rocky path to ratification due to various issues, including the US expanding its metals tariff and Trump’s threats to annex Greenland.
The European Union is poised to freeze the ratification process of its trade deal with the US and is seeking more details from President Donald Trump’s administration on its new tariff program.
The main political groups in the European Parliament say they’ll suspend legislative work on approving the trade deal on Monday, days after the US Supreme Court struck down Trump’s use of an emergency-powers law to impose his so-called reciprocal tariffs around the world.
European stocks hit a session low after the news, with the Stoxx Europe 600 falling 0.4%.
Zeljana Zovko, the lead trade negotiator in the European People’s Party group on the US deal, said in an interview with Bloomberg that “we have no other option” but to delay the approval process to seek clarity on the situation.
The center-right EPP, which is the largest political bloc in parliament, will be joined by parties including the Socialists & Democrats and the liberal Renew group to back freezing the process.
EU was first? Well, China will do the same. And pretty much everyone else. Nice to be first to react this time. Trump has surely lost a lot of power if EU can throw gloves off in mere days.