On Friday 27 April, the European Commission rejected any link made by certain media between the process of renegotiating the 2009 EU-USA memorandum of understanding (resulting from their dispute at the WTO on the European ban on importing hormone-injected beef) and the talks for permanent exemption for the EU from the US taxes on imports of steel and aluminium.
The functioning of the quota for importing US hormone-free beef into the EU "is a longstanding issue that is following its...