European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström is to meet US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and US Foreign Trade Representative Robert Lightizer on the sidelines of the OECD ministerial meeting in Paris on Wednesday 30 and Thursday 31 May. Their meeting will come ahead of the expiry on 1 June of the provisional exemption, granted to the EU by US President Donald Trump, from the US customs duties on imports of steel and aluminium that were enacted in March.
Malmström is...