The European Parliament approved legislation Tuesday to implement the EU’s trade deal with the United States, marking one of the final hurdles in a process that has repeatedly frustrated the Trump administration.
Lawmakers voted 440 in favor, 151 against and 50 abstaining to approve changes to legislation to remove tariffs on U.S. industrial goods and some agricultural products — fulfilling the EU’s side of the agreement struck last July at President Donald Trump’s golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland.
Washington had agreed to cap tariffs on most EU exports at 15 percent and to lower levies on European cars. Those changes took effect last fall.
Getting the deal onto the EU’s books has taken longer, with top trade lawmaker Bernd Lange demanding additional safeguards after Trump threatened in January to annex Greenland and later menaced Spain with a trade embargo for opposing U.S. air strikes on Iran.
