USTR, EU Counterpart Agree to Accelerate Pace of Talks on Steel, Critical Minerals

August 24, 2023 |USTR

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, after a meeting with European Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis in Jaipur, India, said she and her EU counterpart asked their negotiating teams to hold sessions on both a global arrangement on sustainable steel and aluminum and on a critical minerals agreement "with an intensified pace."

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Tai released the readout Aug. 24.

Dombrovskis posted on social media that he had a "detailed exchange [with Tai] on the margins of" the G-20 on these two initiatives.

"We agreed to intensify talks with a view to reaching agreement by the autumn," he wrote.