A CMA in sight? The EU’s top trade lawmaker is ‘quite a bit optimistic’

BRUSSELS -- European Parliament Trade Committee Chair Bernd Lange is hopeful that the U.S. and the European Union will find a way forward on labor and environment issues that have been holding up a deal on critical minerals, he tells Inside U.S. Trade . The bloc has been resisting a push by the U.S. to create an enforcement tool modeled on the rapid-response mechanism in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement – an approach not in line with EU practice, officials have said...