BERLIN (AP) – U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is saying that the United States and the European Union should have a free trade agreement.
President Donald Trump has withdrawn the U.S. from an agreement with Asian nations, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but the fate of a proposed trade deal with the EU has been less clear.
Ross on Tuesday told a conference in Berlin organized by a group linked to German Angela Merkel’s party that “we as major trading partners of each other should have a free trade agreement.”
He said, “We believe that we have in Europe a good counterparty.”
Ross addressed the event by video link after cancelling a planned trip to Berlin on short notice.