The EU: Digital-related legislation is not on the agenda of trade negotiations with the US

The European Commission emphasized that the EU's Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act are not on the agenda of trade negotiations between the EU and the United States.

Xinhua News Agency reported that on Monday (June 30), Renier, a spokesperson for the European Commission, said that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has made it very clear that the EU's sovereign decision-making and legislation are not on the negotiating table, and the EU will not change laws, including those related to digitalization. He also said that the EU is still making every effort to advance the negotiations and hopes to reach a trade agreement with the US side before July 9.

The United States has repeatedly criticized the EU's digital legislation as "unfair" and demanded that the EU ease its regulation of American tech giants. In April this year, the European Commission determined that the Us-Based Apple Inc. and the metaverse platform company violated the EU's Digital Markets Act and imposed huge fines on each of the two companies.

The European Commission's commissioner for trade and economic security, Sevjovic, said on the same day that he would travel to Washington on July 1 to meet with US trade officials and continue to push for a trade agreement between the two sides.

At present, the EU has received the draft of the principle agreement proposed by the US side. An EU technical delegation has also arrived in Washington.

US President Trump previously threatened that if no breakthrough was made in the US-EU trade negotiations by July 9, he would impose a 50% tariff on EU goods. At present, the United States imposes a 50% tariff on steel and aluminum products from the European Union, a 25% tariff on the automotive sector, and a 10% benchmark tariff on almost all other goods.