Tariff War Escalates: U.S. Holds the Line as EU Flails for a Deal Before August 1 Deadline

U.S. Tariffs Set to Hit — No Room Left for Negotiation With the clock ticking toward a hard August 1 deadline, the United States is playing economic hardball — and the European Union, ever the lumbering bureaucracy, is choking on its own indecision. Over the weekend, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick made it abundantly clear: the baseline 30% tariff on EU imports is set in stone. “That’s a hard deadline,” he told CBS News. “On Aug. 1, the new tariff rates will come in.” Let’s cut through the political theater — this is no simple trade negotiation. What we’re watching is the decoupling of two massive economic blocs, and the slow-motion implosion of the old globalist trading order. Brussels, predictably,…