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Merkel: Trade talk with Trump administration will remain difficult, 'every word weighed'

By Jenny Leonard  / July 8, 2017 at 3:10 PM
HAMBURG – German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in concluding this year's G20 summit, said she did not expect discussions with the Trump administration on trade issues to become easier in the future, but added that she hoped the countries could make progress quickly on steel overcapacity – a “dicey” issue – and that the Global Forum would deliver policy solutions in the near future to avoid bilateral trade-restrictive measures on steel, which she did not rule out. “I don't want to...

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