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The US delay of its proposed 50% tariffs on EU imports will still leave its polymers vulnerable to retaliatory tariffs.

The new deadline is 9 July.

For US exports, the EU has already drafted a list of targets for retaliatory tariffs, part of its second round of €95 billion in tariffs on US imports. A full list of all the proposed imports can be found here.

This is on top of the first round of €21 billion in tariffs on US imports. A full list of all the proposed imports can be found here.

In all, the EU could impose tariffs on nearly every major polymer from the US, including polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS), polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET).

The EU is also considering tariffs on US imports of surfactants, fatty acids, fatty alcohols, and tall oil, a feedstock used to make renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable naphtha.

The following table lists some of the many plastics and chemicals proposed on the EU’s second round of tariffs.