The European Parliament's International Trade Committee has voted to remove EU import tariffs on a range of US products, as reported by Reuters and YLE.
The result of the vote was 31 to six to enact key part of US trade deal. This is a step towards implementing a trade deal with the US agreed last year and is aimed at preventing a transatlantic trade war.
The legislation still needs to be approved by the full EU Parliament in mid-June. However, the committee's support for the tariff reduction is a clear sign of how that crucial vote will go.
EU progress on the deal should at least bring some calm to the world's largest trading relationship.