The EU's top negotiator on Monday defended a trade agreement with the United States to avert steeper tariffs as "the best deal we could get under very difficult circumstances"."I'm 100 percent sure that this deal is better than a trade war with the United States,

U.S. President Donald Trump's recent executive order only sets out his so-called "reciprocal" tariff for the EU at 15% and does not apply to cars and other agreed carve-outs, EU officials said on Friday,

A European Commission spokesman in Brussels declined to comment Friday on the apparent delayed entry into force of new US tariffs on imports from the European Union. He merely referred to a message posted on social networks by EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič,

President Donald Trump and European Union leaders announced a trade framework over the weekend, just days ahead of Trump’s self-imposed Friday deadline to increase import taxes and his