Washington Presses the European Union to Roll Back Import Rules a Year After Its Tariff Deal

The United States is keeping up pressure on the European Union over trade. Washington is pushing Brussels to announce a rollback of its import rules, the Financial Times reported, a year after the two sides struck a deal to reduce the tariffs the US administration had imposed.

The demand shows that last year's agreement settled little on its own. Rather than a durable truce, it opened a continuing negotiation in which Washington seeks further concessions on the rules that govern how goods enter the European market. For Brussels, conceding risks undercutting its own regulatory standards, while resisting risks reviving the tariff threat the deal was meant to remove.

The approach fits a broader pattern in American trade policy, which increasingly uses the leverage of market access and the threat of tariffs to reshape partners' domestic rules. Each round leaves companies on both sides of the Atlantic planning around policy that can shift with a single announcement.