The path to the EU’s capitulation to Donald Trump’s trade blitz was set on April 10.
The sweeping “liberation day” tariffs that the US president had inflicted on most of the world earlier that month had sent financial markets into a tailspin as investors dumped US assets over recession fears. With the sell-off intensifying, Trump blinked and on April 9 dropped the tariffs to 10 per cent.
But Brussels blinked too. On April 10 it suspended its retaliatory tariffs and accepted the US offer of talks with a knife at its throat: 10 per cent tariffs on most of its trade, along with higher levies on steel, aluminium and vehicles.
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