BRUSSELS — The European Parliament’s trade committee approved by a wide majority a compromise struck with EU governments and the Commission on legislation to implement a trade deal with the United States.
Lawmakers backed, by 31 votes to six, with three abstentions, changes to legislation under which the EU agreed to eliminate tariffs on U.S. industrial goods and some agricultural products — a key pillar of the agreement struck last summer at Donald Trump’s golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland.
European institutions are now racing to complete the legislative process before July 4, when Trump has threatened to impose higher tariffs.
Tuesday’s vote follows months of internal EU wrangling, as lawmakers slowed their deliberations after Trump threatened to seize Greenland in January and the U.S. Supreme Court struck down much of his tariff agenda in February.
