Dublin (Reuters) – The European Commerce Commissioner, Maros Sefcovic, will have a meeting on Monday in Washington with officials of the administration of Donald Trump to try to reach a pricing agreement, a spokesman for the Commission announced on Friday.
“The Commerce Commissioner will go to Washington to try to sign agreements. This is where we are focusing. All the options are on the table if that should not lead to a good result,” said Olof Gill on Irish radio RTE.
Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he immediately suspended a salvo of “reciprocal” customs rights for 90 days that he had revealed a week earlier against dozens of countries including EU member states. The American president, on the other hand, maintained a general surcharge to the importation of 10%.
The European Union decided in return to suspend its first countermeasures for 90 days.
Olof Gill said he did not know precisely what the United States expected the EU but added that this reciprocal break on the surcharges opened “a new space” which could make it possible to move towards real progress.
“We have a lot to offer and we are ready to discuss,” he said.
(Conor Humphries; Jean-Stéphane Brosse for the , edited by Sophie Louet)
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