Member States' Trade Ministers met on Tuesday 1st October for an informal meeting on controversial topics regarding trade policy. Just over 24 hours after the publication of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) decision on the volume of European goods eligible for tariff increases (expected on 2 October at 4pm), the impact of the transatlantic dispute on European support for Airbus - condemned by the WTO - was discussed during part of the Ministers' lunch (see EUROPE B12328A15).
At the...