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The EU-US trade deal agreed last Sunday was “grossly lopsided”, says Paul Taylor in The Guardian. The 15% across-the-board tariff rate European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen ended up accep

The EU’s trade deal with US president Donald Trump drew furious reactions in Paris and Berlin (see our politics page), but behind the theatrics the deal seems likely to be approved. The unequal accord

Investors may reappraise the TINA trade

A TRADE AGREEMENT has finally been reached between American and European leaders. Vehicles exported from the EU to the US will be hit with a 15% tariff, with those going the other way billed just 2.5%

The “global rollercoaster ride” of America’s trade war ...

“I keep reading that Donald Trump is an economic genius,” says Matthew Hennessey in The Wall Street Journal. The story goes that the “punishing recession prophesied by the priests of the economic reli