Before the much-awaited talks in Washington between European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström and US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross on Tuesday afternoon 20 March, the US administration had shown signs of flexibility during a meeting in the US capital the previous day between Germany's Minister for the Economy Peter Altamaier and Ross on the EU's exemption from customs duties on imports of aluminium and steel into the USA. The duties were enacted by US President Donald Trump on 8...