EU Trade Chief Says Time Running Out to Fix U.S. Steel Spat
- Dombrovskis is meeting with U.S. trade, commerce chiefs
- Steel, aluminum duties need solution on same timeline, he says
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The European Union’s trade chief warned that only about a month remains to resolve a metals dispute with the U.S., and failure to do so means new EU tariffs will hit American products on Dec. 1.
“Allowing for internal decision-making procedures in the EU, we really need an agreement already by the beginning of November,” EU trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said Tuesday on Bloomberg Television. “We are now working very intensively to resolve this Trump-era steel and aluminum dispute,” Dombrovskis said. “Time is, in a sense, running out.”