FILE PHOTO: U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm delivers remarks before a conversation with Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman of S&P Global, at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston, Texas, U.S., March 8, 2023. REUTERS/Callaghan O’Hare

March 10 (Reuters) – U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has said the United States and the European Union are in talks on a cleantech free trade deal, the Financial Times reported on Friday. .

“We don’t want there to be any commercial rivalry. And we’re talking with our European counterparts about how to make sure we can do that in a way that benefits everyone,” Granholm told the FT in an interview.

The FT quoted Granholm as saying the United States wants to build a manufacturing “backbone” to reverse decades of deindustrialization and break dependence on China.

The article comes after the European Commission announced on Thursday that EU companies can get as much public funding as possible from a US package of green energy subsidies.

(Reporting by Anirudh Saligrama in Bengaluru; Editing by Christian Schmollinger and Tom Hogue, Spanish editing by Jose Munoz)

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