EU takes agricultural subsidies off the table in trade talks with US

Published January 9, 2019 10:46pm ET



The European Union’s top trade negotiator said Wednesday that the political union was ruling out discussing its agricultural subsidies during upcoming talks with the Trump administration. The EU official also said that the White House had not pledged to hold off on potential auto tariffs until the talks were complete.

“We have made very clear agriculture will not be included,” EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom told reporters Wednesday. She made the comments following a meeting in Washington with Japanese Minister of the Economy Hiroshige Seko and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.

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