Source: European Parliament
Priority question for written answer P-001508/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Vicent Marzà Ibáñez (Verts/ALE)
On 2 April 2025, US President Donald Trump announced the imposition of a 20% general tariff on the EU. This poses a particular risk for industry in Valencia, the Spanish region most heavily reliant on exports to the US in relative terms.
Regulation (EU) 2023/2675 on the protection of the Union and its Member States from economic coercion by third countries ‘affecting trade or investment in order to prevent or obtain the cessation, modification or adoption of a particular act by the Union’ was adopted in 2023. It provides for the imposition of specific charges, the limitation of access to European public procurement or the restriction of banking or insurance access to EU markets. However, we are not aware that it has been used.
Given the foreseeable severe economic impacts:
- 1.Has the Commission initiated the procedure for applying the Regulation?
- 2.Has the Spanish Government or any other Member State requested it?
- 3.What measures provided under the Regulation does the Commission intend to implement and within what deadlines?
Submitted: 11.4.2025