The proclaimed election of Joe Biden will certainly not end overnight the trade tensions between the European Union and the United States.
A council of European foreign ministers devoted to trade is convened on Monday.
On the agenda: the customs sanctions that the EU is authorized to take against Washington since the green light from the World Trade Organization (WTO), granted on October 13.
The Geneva institution had - finally - ruled in the dispute between the two sides of the Atlantic for more than fifteen years on state aid granted to Boeing and Airbus.
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The WTO treated the reciprocal accusations separately.
So much so that in October 2019 it, in a first step, authorized the United States to sanction the EU on 7.5 billion dollars of exports, the estimated amount of damage.
The Trump administration then rushed to overtax a series of European products, starting with Airbus (by 15%), but also
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