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The EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC), which yesterday met for the first time, has agreed to co-operate on what it called key global technology, economic and trade issues, which includes environmental and secure supply chain matters.

Representatives from the EU, including EC executive VPs Margrethe Vestager and Valdis Dombrovskis, met their US counterparts, secretary of state Antony Blinken, secretary of commerce Gina Raimondo and US trade representative Katherine Tai in Pittsburgh, with a broad remit, ranging from forced child labour ...