European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström met US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Monday 10 September.
This first meeting of the executive working group that was set up at the last Trump-Juncker meeting in New York in July(see EUROPE 12071) mainly enabled the parties to find their bearings and decide on the date of a new meeting in September.
The aim of the group is to identify the short term measures to facilitate trade and to assess existing tariff measures. The two...