US officials compiling 'menu' of Spanish goods, as Trump weighs embargo

Source: Politico

07/08/2026 12:56 PM EDT


The Trump administration is preparing a list of Spanish goods to potentially embargo, after President Donald Trump ordered officials to cut off trade with the European nation Thursday morning. The Treasury Department will be working with the U.S. trade representative and Commerce Department to provide Trump “a menu of Spanish products that may be embargoed in the coming days,” a U.S.official said via email.

Such a move would potentially blow up the trade deal the U.S. struck with the European Union last year. Spain is a member of the 27-country bloc. The European Parliament recently passed legislation implementing the terms of the deal that includes a clause allowing the bloc to pull out if any breach of what is known as the Turnberry Agreement.

“The process of putting tariffs on stuff from Spain is not that hard,” said Chad Bown, former chief economist for the State Department under President Joe Biden. “What would this mean for the Turnberry Deal? I think it would be devastating for that … [it] would probably spell the end of that agreement.”

Trump issued the call to block trade with Spain Wednesday morning in Ankara, Turkey, on the sidelines of the NATO Summit, citing Madrid’s refusal to endorse the transatlantic alliance’s mandate for member countries to spend 5 percent of GDP on defense by 2035.

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