U.S. agriculture minister urges swift progress on TTIP trade talks

BERLIN (Reuters) - The United States and the European Union need to make serious progress on a sweeping U.S.-European free trade deal before U.S. President Barack Obama leaves office, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Tuesday.

"I wouldn't want to put a hard and fast deadline on this as we want to do it right, but I do think it's important for us to make serious and significant progress on this over the next six to nine months," Vilsack told a joint news conference in Berlin with German Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt.

(Reporting by Caroline Copley; Editing by Michelle Martin)

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