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  "title": "EU pushes back as US revives trade pressure on bloc",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/eu-pushes-back-as-us-revives-trade-pressure-on-bloc-1038673",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-15T12:54:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Local France",
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    "url": "https://www.thelocal.fr/20260815/eu-pushes-back-as-us-revives-trade-pressure-on-bloc"
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  "account": "On Friday, the European Union responded to renewed trade pressure from the United States, accusing Brussels of enabling Chinese evasion of US tariffs and calling for the bloc to roll back green rules on businesses. U.S. Ambassador to the EU Andrew Puzder urged the EU to align provisions of two landmark new laws on environmental and human rights supply chain standards with the EU-US trade deal from last year. The document, posted on X, detailed concerns the rules pose to U.S. commerce. The United States warned it would take action against \"unreasonable burdens on U.S. commerce\" absent a solution addressing the issues. European Commission spokesperson Arianna Podesta stated the EU continued to exchange on both tariff and non-tariff issues with the U.S., calling the process \"constructive.\" However, she emphasized that the EU's rules framework and regulatory autonomy were not up for negotiation. The EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) require large companies to address adverse human rights and environmental impacts in their supply chains and provide information on their climate impact and emissions. The U.S. document argued these laws' extraterritorial reach and costly due diligence obligations would disadvantage U.S. businesses competing in the EU market. Puzder's comments followed his criticism of the EU's carbon border tax (CBAM), which he called a \"tariff in substance\" despite its climate policy label. Separately, the EU was identified in a White House report as a risk for illegal transshipment from China, a practice where goods are sent through third countries to avoid paying levies. The report vowed to use AI to detect such practices in the future. The EU acknowledged sharing the U.S. objective of tackling customs fraud but noted the document found the EU's transshipment risk to be embedded within broad legitimate trade flows.",
  "summary": "The EU pushed back Friday at renewed trade pressure from the United States, as Washington said the bloc was enabling Chinese evasion of US tariffs and stepped up calls for it to roll back flagship green rules on businesses.",
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