The European Parliament signed off on major provisions of the trade deal that the United States and the bloc struck last year at President Trump’s golf course in Turnberry, Scotland. The decision came after months of wrangling, and despite big concerns on the part of many European lawmakers that the United States was no longer a reliable partner.

The European Union rarely moves quickly, but this process was especially slow. Progress toward enacting the European Union side of the trade agreement has been paused repeatedly. Lawmakers first put the deal on ice when Mr. Trump threatened to take over Greenland, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark, an E.U. member. Then they took a break when the Supreme Court said Mr. Trump’s across-the-board tariffs were unconstitutional, and it was unclear how the Trump administration would react to that.

The European Parliament agreed on Thursday that the bloc would eliminate tariffs on American industrial goods — including machine parts, equipment and raw materials — and some agricultural products. This was a major part of the trade agreement the Europeans struck with the Trump administration last year.

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