Those tariffs would come in response to steel and aluminum levies that Washington previously announced, and they are expected to be sweeping; the preliminary list covered everything from bourbon and motorcycles to boats and soybeans.

The edited version has dropped whiskey, one senior European official suggested on Monday, though a full set of items has not been published.

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