Mirz, “The Fake”, is above us to spare German cars in the European Union’s commercial deal

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Counselor Friedrich Mirz is “fake” in his expectation that the auto industry in Germany will be rescued from the American customs tariff, according to European Union officials participating in trade talks with the Trump administration.

Mirz is pressing the European Commission, which runs commercial policy on behalf of the 27 European Union member states, to sign a “framework” deal with the Washington Agreement signed earlier this month, which included a special distributor for cars.

But Brussels officials have in particular told Berlin that such an arrangement will not be possible, because reducing German car imports is a great focus of US President Donald Trump, according to two people in discussions of the Financial Times.

Mirz criticized earlier this week the committee to lead the “very complex” negotiations and said that the deal should focus on four to five main industries, including cars, steel and pharmaceutical preparations, as Trump has already threatened the sectoral tariffs.

But committee officials say this is the most difficult to remove because Trump wants to restore the beach of these industries in the United States and reduce imports.

People said that the European Union negotiators believe that cars are the “most difficult element” in any deal with the White House and should be dealt with after agreeing on easier aspects to build confidence.

One of the officials said Berlin was “fake” to believe that Trump would agree to the concessions of German car manufacturers as a first step.

The separation between the executive authority of the European Union and the largest economy of the bloc at the Leadership Summit in Brussels came on Thursday, where they were appointed to discuss the American trade relationship. The committee officials were hoping that the leaders would support a “reliable threat” in revenge for the completion of the deal by the deadline in July.

“I support the committee to quickly reach a commercial deal with the United States,” said Mirz.

Trump threatened 50 percent of “mutual” definitions on the imports of the European Union if a deal was not delivered by July 9.

Meanwhile, the so -called sectoral tariffs of 25 percent of cars and auto parts, and 50 percent for steel and aluminum, as well as a 10 percent tariff for most other imports.

Many countries are careful not to provide a lot of privileges for a quick deal. Referring to the UK and the United States Convention, a senior European Union diplomat said that the bloc “must hope that the European Union with its 450 million people has more commercial forces than the United Kingdom.”

It will be complex for the sector complicated for the sector if it involves the quota system. Trump agreed to reduce a 27.5 percent tariff for British cars to 10 percent for the first 100,000 vehicles shipped from the United Kingdom. A similar deal for the European Union will leave the member states fighting around allocating the share.

“The mandate we have provided to the committee … to go to the lowest possible tariff.” They added that “10 percent is not the state we presented,” referring to the UK, which accepted the 10 % tax on most goods to stay in place.

The diplomat said, if the deal is “unbalanced”, the European Union will be ready to implement “the counter -tariff.

The bloc has already agreed, but it suspended the application of revenge definitions on 21 billion euros of American goods and is another package that aims to value American products worth 95 billion euros.

Germany’s economy depends on exports and has been beaten in particular through definitions. ACEA, the auto manufacturer, said that car makers were losing “millions of two numbers” per day as a result. The German auto industry represents about 5 percent of the country’s gross domestic product.

The United States is the second largest vehicle exports market in the European Union after the United Kingdom. In 2024, more than 750,000 cars were exported, worth 38.9 billion euros. The United States has exported 169,000 to the European Union worth 7.8 billion euros, according to ACEA.

Among the German car makers, BMW is especially bully that the United States is flying a 25 percent tariff. Oliver Zeep, CEO of BMW Investors in mid -May, said that the company managed to negotiate with the Trump administration from the position of “power” as the largest US -US automobile exporter at the last year, and shipped 225,000 vehicles worth more than $ 10 billion, from its factory in Spartpurg.

BMW, Mercedes-Benz and other European auto makers have pushed the United States to allow the defect program, which will help them recover recovery operations on importing tariffs if they are also exporting vehicles from America.

Senior executives of the three best German cars Trump at the White House met in mid -April. Mirz also raised the car case with Trump when they met in the Oval Office earlier this month.

“I said I was driving an American car with a German brand,” Mirz said after the meeting, by explaining to the American president that many German car makers, including BMW, produced vehicles in the United States before their export to Europe.

While Mirz pressed the European Union to reach an agreement with the United States as soon as possible, some German car makers are less optimistic. “It is a mixed bag at the present time,” said one of the auto officials. “At the end of the day, it is the European Union that negotiates with the United States.”

Another person in the German car maker said: “The negotiations seem to be somewhat stuck. It is frustrating … The European Union allows time to pass.”