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EU seeks early US talks to avert Trump tariffs

By Reuters The European Union wants to engage swiftly with the United States over President Donald Trump’s planned tariffs, trade chief Maros Sefcovic said on Tuesday, while his boss Ursula von der Leyen forecast negotiations with Washington would be tough. Sefcovic, speaking at a meeting of EU ministers, said he wanted “early engagement” and was awaiting confirmations of the appointment of Trump’s picks for Commerce Secretary, financier Howard Lutnick, and for U.S. Trade Representative, Jamieson Greer. “We are ready to engage immediately and we hope that through this early engagement, we can avoid the measures which would bring a lot of disturbance to the most important trade and investment relationship on this planet,” he told reporters. Von der Leyen, the […]

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