Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick voiced confidence that the major trade agreement signed with the European Union last year would hold up amid the current turmoil.
President Donald Trump’s threats of tariffs against several EU countries in response to their pushback against handing Greenland over to the United States have triggered outrage among the bloc, with some calling for the massive trade deal struck last year to be put on hold in response. Lutnick signaled he wasn’t concerned about that possibility in a Tuesday interview with CBS News at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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