PRAGUE — The European Union requested the US to deal with EU electrical autos, batteries and sustainable power tools bought in the US the identical as these from Canada and Mexico, Czech commerce minister Jozef Sikela stated.

The 27-nation EU has been complaining that the U.S. Inflation Discount Act successfully discriminates in opposition to EU producers as a result of it gives tax breaks to shoppers on such items made in North America, however not for these made within the EU.

The EU argues that, not like the US, it gives the identical tax breaks for EU-made and U.S.-made items in these sectors.

Talking after a gathering of EU commerce ministers and U.S. Commerce Consultant Katherine Tai in Prague, Sikela, whose nation holds the rotating presidency of the EU, informed a information convention on Monday that there was a willingness on either side for a deal.

“We predict a derogation (within the U.S. Inflation Discount Act) for EU member states – ideally we wish to have the identical as Canada and Mexico, however we have now to be practical and see what we are able to negotiate,” Sikela stated.

The problem is to be resolved by a job power that can meet for the primary time this week, EU Commerce Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis stated.

“We’re specializing in a negotiated answer earlier than we transfer on to different concerns,” he stated.