On Thursday 12 April, European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström acknowledged that the EU remained in doubt as to the compensation expected by US President Donald Trump for a permanent exemption for the EU from the 25% customs duty on steel imports and the 10% duty on aluminium imports into the USA. These duties entered into force on 23 March and the EU is provisionally exempt from them until 1 May.
"The Trump administration remains hazy on what it expects in compensation for a...