US, EU resume trade talks shadowed by election, Brexit

WASHINGTON: US and European Union negotiators began meeting in New York on Monday for a new round of talks on an ambitious transatlantic trade pact.

But the discussions on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which both sides want completed by year-end, come amid rising anti-free trade talk in the US presidential election race and the threat that Britain could move to pull out of the 28-nation EU this year.