Germany's incoming chancellor to urge Trump to 'go to zero' on all tariffs
BERLIN, April 28 (Reuters) - Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said on Monday that he would urge U.S. President Donald Trump to "go to zero" on all tariffs.
"We will offer the United States of America that it would be best if we go to zero for all customs duties in the mutual exchange of goods," Merz said at a meeting of his conservatives after announcing his cabinet picks.
He also suggested "the mutual recognition of technological standards" between Germany and the U.S.
"What we have seen in recent years and decades are increasingly divergent technical barriers between the individual major trading nations of the world, which we must overcome, and this can also contribute to the sustainable reduction of bureaucracy," he said.
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