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Washington is pressing the European Union to speed up trade negotiations launched after the meeting between US President Donald Trump and EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker
The US State Department instructs EU embassies to source trade deliverables. The EU delegation is planning a late-August trip to Washington.
The EU’s reasoning is that it wouldn’t make sense to throw out all the previous work done on regulatory cooperation and start anew, EU sources said.
Bruxelles assure que l'accord scellé la semaine dernière pour éviter une guerre commerciale ne prévoit pas d'ouvrir plus largement l'accès au marché agricole européen. Mais l'administration Trump prétend le contraire. La France demande des clarifications.
If the US and the EU follow through with their commitments, the new trade relationship would mean more fracking in the US and an attack on European standards for genetically modified organisms, chemicals and other sensitive issues.
Europeans don’t want their hallowed farm sector sucked into the deal.
US-EU talks would seek to eliminate trade barriers for non-automotive industrial goods, and transatlantic trade in services, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and medical products. Europe agreed to increase purchases of US liquefied natural gas and soybeans.
Angela Merkel badly wants a trade deal to prevent Trump from carrying out his threat to put 25% tariffs on car imports into the US.
US President Donald Trump said that European leaders were coming to Washington next week to try to hammer out a deal focused largely on car tariffs.
The European Parliament adopted a resolution to suspend the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement, saying the US’ compliance efforts to date “fail to provide enough data protection for EU citizens.”
