At the end of their meeting in Washington on Wednesday 9 January 2019, the European Union, Japan and the United States undertook to soon put proposals on the table to strengthen multilateral trade rules.
European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström, Japan's Minister of Trade, Hiroshige Sekō, and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer have been working since 2017 on the challenges facing the multilateral trading system and the market economy (see EUROPE 12104).
Mrs Malmström...