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By Philip Blenkinsop
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union's trade commissioner said on Thursday she hoped for a US mission to Washington will ease a transatlantic trade disrupte but the bloc is preparing a list of US imports to hit the United States imposes tariffs on EU cars.
Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom will travel to Washington on July 25 with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, with the President of the United States Donald Trump.
"We Are Preparing for the United States."
"We Are Preparing for the United States Together with our Member States, "The Malaria in the United States", "Malmstrom told a conference hosted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Brussels.
The EU has already imposed its own import tariffs on 2.8 billion euros ($ 3.25 billion).
EU steel and Aluminum exports to the United States, which are now subject to tariffs, are worth some 6.4 billion euros per year. EU exports and exports are worth 51 billion euros.
One EU diplomat familiar with Wednesday's talks said the Commission can not do anything. hit, but said they could in theory total 9 trillion euros, it could also go for a higher price.
Trump 's top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow trade offer. EU officials have downplayed suggestions.
Some reports have said that a multilateral deal to be cheaply. Malmstrom on Thursday questioned the viability of such a plan to a bilateral deal with the United States to scrap
"The aim of President Juncker's visit is to try to "Malmstrom said."
"We do not go there to establish a good relationship, try to see how we can-escalate the situation, avoiding it. negotiated anything, "she added.
($ 1 = 0.8614 euros)
(Reporting by Philip Blenkinsop and Robert-Jan Bartunek, editing by Angus MacSwan)
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