EU-US Trade Statement Held Up Over Digital Laws, FT Says

The EU’s efforts to safeguard its digital regulations are holding up a joint statement on trade, following an agreement struck last month in Scotland, the Financial Times reported.

The two sides are at odds over wording around the rules that target the behavior of Big Tech as the US wants to keep open the possibility of concessions on the bloc’s landmark Digital Services Act, the newspaper reported. The European Commission has previously said that this would be unacceptable.

US President Donald Trump is not planning to sign an executive order lowering tariffs on EU car imports until the joint statement ...