Comments via Reuters from a 'senior White House official'
- EU came to trade talks with US open to short-term deals and willing to discuss longer-term US. concerns
- Trump retains leverage to impose tariffs if US and EU cannot come to a deal; EU needs to open to more US auto exports
- Says EU wants 'to work together with US on China,' and help reform World Trade Organization
- Says it was not clear before Trump met Juncker how much flexibility EU would have, we wanted larger agenda
Not much to surprise in these comments
