EU to Present Trade Proposals to US Negotiators Next Week (1)

The European Union is planning to share a paper with the US next week that will set out a package of proposals to kick-start trade negotiations with the Trump administration.

The paper will propose lowering trade and non-tariff barriers, boosting European investments in the US, cooperating on strategic challenges such as tackling unfair competition and China’s steel overcapacity, as well as purchasing US goods like liquefied natural gas and technologies, according to people familiar with the matter.

The plans could still change as the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm that handles trade matters for the bloc, continues to consult ...