EU Exports to US Surged Ahead of Trump’s Tariff Announcement

The European Union’s exports to the US rocketed in the month before President Donald Trump unveiled his so-called “Liberation Day” trade war with the rest of the world.

The value of the bloc’s goods crossing the Atlantic to America totaled €71.4 billion ($80 billion) in March, up 59% from a year earlier, according to data released by Luxembourg-based Eurostat on Friday. That pushed the EU’s trade surplus with the US that month up to €40.7 billion, by far the highest ever.