Europe

Senators and House members from Iowa, Oregon, New York and California are on the schedule for Liam Fox, as is Ivanka Trump.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has issued a second list of European products that could be hit with higher duties in retaliation for subsidies the World Trade Organization has said the European Union illegally provides to Airbus for large civil aircraft.

The U.S. is hopeful gene editing technology will face an easier path in the EU than genetically modified food has, McKinney said.

The European Union will bring its dispute with the U.S. over Spanish olives to a panel at the World Trade Organization, while China has agreed to implement reforms to its administration of agricultural tariff-rate quotas after losing a dispute with the U.S. earlier this year, according to member statements from a Dispute Settlement Body meeting on Monday.

The U.S. and the EU can continue to treat China as a non-market economy when levying antidumping duties on Chinese goods.

TSUKUBA, JAPAN – The U.S. and the European Union “haven't really started” talking about how to address President Trump's concerns over auto imports, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said this week in a wide-ranging interview here on the sidelines of the G20 trade ministers' meeting.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative believes a trade deal with Europe completed under the terms laid out last year by President Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker would lead to an increase in the U.S. trade deficit with the EU, a concern that is complicating bilateral talks with Brussels, according to EU sources.

The U.S. on Tuesday blocked the European Union’s first request to establish a World Trade Organization dispute panel over the Commerce Department’s antidumping and countervailing duties on Spanish olives.

European parliamentary elections underway this week are not are not expected to immediately affect nascent trans-Atlantic trade negotiations, but the results could have a lasting impact on European trade policy.