Alcohol, medicines, steel: the US-EU agreement remains unclear for many sectors

For the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the agreement on customs duties concluded on Sunday, July 27, with Donald Trump is "the best we can get." This agreement, for the moment without written commitment, sets a customs surcharge of 15% on the majority of European goods exported to the United States upon their entry into American territory .

This compromise had the merit of reassuring the markets. But its still-elusive nature leaves "many things to clarify," according to AXA's chief economist, Gilles Moëc, in a macroeconomic note published this Monday. Especially since following their meeting, Trump and Von der Leyen made contradictory statements on pl