By bizn_fun 
European officials thought they had secured a 15% tariff on their metals exports as part of the deal reached over the summer, but the US is still charging at 50% duty – and has expanded the number of products subject to the levy.
Europe is also hoping to win carve-outs from tariffs for items such as wine, cheese and pasta, similar to the rollback the Trump administration recently granted for tropical fruit and coffee.
In a Bloomberg Television interview on Monday, Mr Lutnick offered little hint of how the US was leaning on those questions, saying only that the Trump administration was focusing on affordability.
He said the US wanted to see concessions over digital taxes for trade in metals to be included in the deal.
“They would like to have steel and aluminium as part of this package and we think it is very, very important that they understand our digital companies and they reconsider their digital regulations to be more inviting to our big companies,” he said.