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STORY: European Union ministers agreed on Monday (July 14) to prioritise negotiations with the United States to avoid threatened 30% tariffs that the EU trade chief said would wreck transatlantic trade.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday (July 12) he would impose 30% tariffs on most EU imports from August 1, though diplomats say there is still time to hammer out an agreement to prevent this.

A 30% tariff rate would make it almost impossible to continue trading as before, with enormous consequences for supply chains and negative impacts on both sides of the Atlantic.

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EUROPEAN TRADE MINISTERS MEET IN BRUSSELS

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SHOWS: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (JULY 14, 2025) (EUROPEAN UNION – Access all)

1. EU TRADE COMMISSIONER, MAROS SEFCOVIC, GREETING DUTCH FOREIGN TRADE MINISTER, HANNEKE BOERMA

2. SEFCOVIC TALKING TO BOERMA

3. DANISH FOREIGN MINISTER, LARS LOKKE RASMUSSEN, ENTERING MEETING ROOM

4. VARIOUS OF SEFCOVIC TALKING TO TRADE OFFICIALS

5. LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, KESTUTIS BUDRYS, AND IRISH FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER, THOMAS BYRNE, DISCUSSING

6. SEFCOVIC GREETING ATTENDEES

7. FRENCH FOREIGN TRADE MINISTER, LAURENT SAINT-MARTIN, LOKKE RASMUSSEN, SEFCOVIC AND GERMAN STATE SECRETARY, THOMAS STEFFEN, POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS

8. CAMERAMEN AT WORK

9. SAINT-MARTIN TALKING TO SEFCOVIC

10.TRADE OFFICIALS

11. BUDRYS, LOKKE RASMUSSEN AND BYRNE DISCUSSING

12. FINNISH FOREIGN TRADE MINISTER, VILLE TAVIO, AND TRADE OFFICIAL ENTERING MEETING ROOM

13. TAVIO AND TRADE OFFICIAL TALKING

14. LATVIAN TRADE OFFICIAL, ARTJOMS URSULSKIS, ENTERING MEETING ROOM

15. PHOTOGRAPHERS AT WORK

16. BYRNE GREETING URSULSKIS

17. TRADE OFFICIALS

18. SAINT-MARTIN TALKING TO PORTUGUESE STATE SECRETARY FOR EU AFFAIRS, INES DOMINGOS

19. ITALIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS OFFICIAL, MARIA TRIPODI, AND GREEK DEPUTY MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, XARIS THEOCHARIS TALKING