Donald Trump’s top trade negotiator has warned the EU that trade remains a “flashpoint” with Washington, as US officials grow frustrated at the bloc’s slow pace in cutting tariffs and regulations.
Jamieson Greer, the US trade representative, told the Financial Times that the EU’s duties affecting American exports were still too high despite the deal struck between the US president and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in July.
“Trade has always been a flashpoint,” Greer said. “They have many regulations and non-tariff barriers that block our exports and reduce our effective market access over there, while we historically have had very broad access for them . . . It’s quite unbalanced.”