Inside Trade

November 4, 2024

USTR official: EU must extend truce over steel and aluminum tariffs  

By Margaret Spiegelman  / October 23, 2024 at 6:30 AM
Washington is urging Brussels to provide the next U.S. administration more time to work toward a “longer-term” solution to a persistent disagreement over steel and aluminum trade, a senior U.S. trade official said on Tuesday, warning that Brussels could face “serious consequences” if it breaks a trade truce set to expire next March. The U.S. and Brussels last year hit a roadblock in talks to negotiate a “Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminum,” launched two years earlier as part...

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