On June 25, EU member states formally adopted two regulations implementing the terms of the 2025 trade agreement between the European Union and the United States, according to a press release from the European Council. The regulations remove the remaining EU tariffs on U.S. industrial goods and introduce preferential access for certain U.S. seafood and agricultural products through quotas and reduced tariffs.

The European Parliament approved the measure on June 16. The United States and the European Union initially reached a framework agreement on bilateral trade in July 2025, but delays had postponed EU ratification until now. These delays were primarily caused by U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to impose additional tariffs on the European Union over Greenland in January 2026 and the Supreme Court's ruling against much of Trump's tariff authority in February 2026.

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