The presence in Brussels of the US Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, and the US Trade Representative, Jamieson Greer, was a reminder of the deep divisions between the EU and the US on trade issues. On Monday 24 November, the two members of the US government took part in a working lunch with the EU’s twenty-seven trade ministers. The ministers had set themselves the task of convincing Washington to continue implementing the bilateral agreement signed in July. However, their American...