In a more than 500-page report released Wednesday, 1 April, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) details the barriers to trade faced by its companies around the world in 2020. The chapter on European obstacles is the longest.
From the outset, the tone is set. U.S. exporters and investors "face persistent barriers (...) in certain sectors of the European Union market", which "have contributed to annual U.S. trade deficits with the EU", according to the USTR.
The report firstly...