Without a doubt (cence dubi) more than a few people (plui di cualchidun) would choose TARIFF (al sielzarès DAZI) as word of the year (tant che peraule dal an).
On the twenty-seventh of July of two thousand and twenty-five (ai vincjesiet di Lui dal doi mil e vincjecinc), United States President Donald Trump (il president dai Stâts Unîts Donald Trump) and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (e la presidente de Comission Europeane Ursula von der Leyen) signed a deal (a àn firmât un acuardi) to avert a trade war (par evitâ une vuere comerciâl) between the United States and the European Union (tra i Stâts Unîts e la Union Europeane).
First of all (prin di dut), what is a tariff (ce isal un dazi)? A tariff is a tax (un dazi al è une tasse) imposed by a public authority (metude sù di une autoritât publiche) on goods (su lis marcjanziis) brought into a territory (puartadis dentri di un teritori).
Tariffs deal between the United States and the European Union (acuardi sui dazis tra i Stâts Unîts e la Union Europeane):
As for the trade deal (par ce che al tocje l’acuardi comerciâl) signed yesterday (firmât îr) between the United States and the European Union (tra i Stâts Unîts e la Union Europeane), Trump reckoned it (Trump lu à stimât) “the biggest deal ever made” («il plui grant acuardi mai fat»).
The agreement provides for a fifteen percent tariff (la intese e previôt un dazi dal cuindis par cent) on most European goods (su la plui part des marcjanziis europeanis) imported into the United States (impuartadis tai Stâts Unîts), such as automobiles and pharmaceuticals (come i automobii e i farmacs), lower than the thirty percent threatened by Trump (plui bas dal trente par cent menaçât di Trump), but higher than the previous one to two percent (ma plui alt dal un-doi par cent di prime).
The European Union will purchase (la Union Europeane e cuistarà) seven hundred and fifty billion dollars (sietcent e cincuante miliarts di dolars) in American energy (in energjie americane) over a three-year period (in un periodi di trê agns). Additionally (cun di plui), the European Union will invest six hundred billion dollars in the United States (la Union Europeane e investissarà sîs miliarts di dolars tai Stâts Unîts) and will purchase American military equipment (e e cuistarà aparâts militârs americans).