European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström will visit Washington on Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 March to ascertain with US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross that the European Union is exempt from the customs duties on imports of aluminium and steel into the US, which were enacted by US President Donald Trump on 8 March and which will be applied on 23 March.
"My message is that the EU should be excluded (from the US taxes) as a whole. And that we want to work with the US and other...