Europe looking for positive signal from U.S. on trade – EU lawmaker

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The European Union hopes to de-escalate trade tensions with the United States but wants Washington to lower steel tariffs or make another goodwill gesture after a series of concessions by Brussels in recent years, a top EU lawmaker said Thursday. European lawmakers were stung when Washington this month expanded steel tariffs just as the two economic powers were trying to resume trade negotiations, Bernd Lange, who chairs the European Parliament's trade committee, told reporters. Lange, who led a delegation of European lawmakers who met with senior U.S.

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