Trade and Technology Council summit opens as officials temper expectations on deliverables

LEUVEN, BELGIUM -- Senior U.S. and European Union officials descended on Leuven, Belgium, Thursday for the beginning of the sixth ministerial meeting of the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council, expressing optimism about progress made to date but seeking to temper expectations for concrete outcomes on some of the bigger trans-Atlantic initiatives. U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, a TTC co-chair, said the council was about more than “transacting and producing deliverables on a six-month basis.” “That completely misses the point of...