Leonid Bershidsky, Columnist

Can Europe Go On Managing Trump on Trade?

Thanks to a complex game of give-and-take, the EU has managed to avoid punitive trade tariffs. But for how much longer?

May 10, 2019 at 1:20 PM UTC

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.”

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As U.S. President Donald Trump imposes punitive tariffs on China, the European Union could be next in line.

The EU has been performing a complex balancing act to keep Trump from pouncing. So far it has succeeded – but that may become increasingly difficult. The U.S. leader is due to decide later this month whether to impose levies on car imports, just as formal trade talks are set to start between Washington and Brussels.