EU Trade Chief Presses for March Approval of US Deal (1)

Feb. 24, 2026, 2:43 PM UTC

The European Union’s trade chief urged the bloc’s lawmakers to approve a trade deal with the US in March, as long as there is certainty by then on President Donald Trump’s new tariff plans.

“A vote in plenary in March must remain our target, under the condition, of course, that we get more clarity from the United States,” Maros Sefcovic told the European Parliament’s trade committee on Tuesday.

Maros Sefcovic
Photographer: Omar Havana/Getty Images

EU lawmakers froze ratification work on the deal on Monday after the US Supreme Court rejected Trump’s use of an emergency-powers law to impose his so-called reciprocal tariffs around the ...

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