“The EU is the only one with an all-inclusive tariff cap like this. Fifteen per cent and nothing extra”, defended the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in an op-ed published on Sunday 24 August in the Belgian newspaper L'Écho and other European newspapers. She defends the agreement reached with the United States on 28 July (see EUROPE B13689A1), which was subsequently translated into a non-binding joint declaration on 21 August. In her opinion, the...