US assails EU push to exclude culture in trade talks

The United States said Europe’s possible push to exclude films and TV shows from transatlantic free trade talks soon to get under way was not a helpful way to start negotiations.

“We understand there are sensitivities regarding this issue,” a US trade official said of the French-driven effort to protect the EU film industry from unrestricted imports that it fears could be the result of the planned EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

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