24/03/2025 (Agence Europe) – The European Commissioner for Trade, Maroš Šefčovič, is travelling to Washington, accompanied by the Commission President’s Head of Cabinet, Björn Seibert, to try to find an alternative to the tariffs imposed by the United States on 12 March and those that the US administration has threatened to apply from 2 April. The European Commissioner is due to meet the US Trade Representative (USTR), Jamieson Greeg, and the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick. A few days earlier, Mr Šefčovič announced in Brussels that the European response to the US tariffs had been delayed by two weeks, to allow time for the measures to be better calibrated and to give both parties more time to negotiate a solution (see EUROPE 13604/9). In view of the economic consequences of the tariffs and the requests from European companies to calm things down, the Commission is still hoping to reach an amicable agreement with the United States. (LM)