EU trade ministers will meet on Monday to plan a “reboot” of transatlantic relations in the post Trump-era, mapping out a co-operative agenda even as the bloc prepares to hit American products with fresh tariffs.
“We want to quickly fix ongoing disputes we have with the US, so we can move on and reboot our transatlantic co-operation,” Valdis Dombrovskis, the EU’s trade commissioner, told the Financial Times. “We have a very positive agenda we can build on with our American partners, with many areas of common interest.”
The European Commission is set this week to target almost $4bn worth of US goods, including tractors, groundnuts and gym equipment, with additional import duties as part of the two side’s 16-year-old dispute over state aid to Airbus and Boeing.