EU Warns Trade Deal With US at Risk Over Effort to Strengthen It
A container ship on the dockside at the Euromax Terminal in the Port of Rotterdam, in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Photographer: Lina Selg/BloombergThe European Union warned member states that efforts to strengthen safeguards in the bloc’s trade agreement with the US may cause the deal to unravel.
The European Commission, the executive arm of the EU that handles trade matters, told the bloc’s ambassadors this week that some changes lawmakers proposed to the EU-US trade deal would sink the accord, according to people familiar with the discussion.