EU Gives Trump Trade Gift to U.S. Lobster Industry, GOP Senator
- Modest breakthrough signed after years of frosty relations
- Deal to help a big Maine industry and a vulnerable lawmaker
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President Donald Trump won a European Union pledge to end tariffs on American lobster as part of a deal that may help him and a Republican senator politically in a state hammered by the U.S. trade war against China.