The BGA, Germany’s federation for international trade, says that the customs agreement between the European Union and the United States will likely cease to exist in its current form after the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on President Donald Trump’s trade policy.
BGA president Dirk Jandura told the newspapers of the Funke media group on Tuesday that, “because of the judgment, the agreement between the EU and the US is politically and factually void”. He added that it is all the more important now for Europeans to reopen talks with Washington in order to bring predictability back to trans‑Atlantic trade.
The Supreme Court decided on Friday that Trump could not invoke a special emergency law when imposing tariffs. The impact of that decision on the customs deal the EU and the U.S. signed last summer remains unclear. Negotiators in the European Parliament halted work on the agreement as of Monday, while the Brussels‑based EU Commission has asked the U.S. government to quickly clarify its next steps and the legal consequences of the judgment.