The eight countries that were signatories on a letter calling on the European Commission to impose further tariffs on Russian and Belarusian imports (see EUROPE B13521A4) tried to win other countries over to their cause during the ‘Trade’ Council on Thursday, 21 November. “If we look at last year, the trade between [the] EU and Russia was at 43 billion euros. So, [there is] still a lot of trade going on, and we have to [tax] it as much as we can so we can hurt Russia’s...