EU and US high-level officials meet to take stock of ongoing cooperation under the EU-US Trade and Technology Council

The meeting was co-chaired - on the EU side -  by European Commission Director-General for Trade Sabine Weyand and Director-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology Roberto Viola, and – on the US side - by Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment Jose Fernandez, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Marisa Lago, and Senior Advisor to U.S. Trade Representative Cara Morrow. 

The two sides took stock of the progress on joint work under way in various TTC working groups. The discussions highlighted the importance of continued collaboration around artificial intelligence, as well as the need to increase efforts to support the deployment of secure digital infrastructure, including subsea cables. They also encouraged collaboration on technology standards, including on plastics recycling and digital identity. 

The officials also discussed how to advance ongoing cooperation on secure supply chains, notably for solar and semiconductors. The EU and US reiterated the importance of easing and promoting more sustainable and secure trade and investment flows across the Atlantic. This includes the joint identification of possible cooperation strands to be developed under the Transatlantic Initiative on Sustainable Trade (TIST), based on the inputs from the transatlantic stakeholder community and the Trade and Labour Dialogue. The two sides also agreed to continue exchanges of best practices on investment screening. 

The meeting concluded by underlining the importance of maintaining strong transatlantic cooperation on trade and technology. They agreed on the importance of taking into account stakeholders’ views on the way forward for EU-US trade and technology cooperation.