EU official questions basis of U.S. Section 232 probe of mobile crane imports

The Trump administration’s basis for initiating a national security probe into mobile crane imports is “incomprehensible,” according to a key European Union official who claimed the investigation primarily targets companies from the bloc. “This new investigation did not get a lot of attention but [it] targets EU companies,” Rupert Schlegelmilch, a director within the deputy director general’s trade office at the European Commission, tweeted on Monday. “The notion that imports of cranes from its closest allies threaten U.S. national security...