How Europeans should plan for Trump trade salvo

Tariffs are coming ‘soon’ and could stretch the 27-member EU to breaking point

President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Picture: AP Photo/Evan Vucci

Donald Trump isn’t sure whether Spain is an emerging market or not — he recently asked if it was a “Brics nation.”  

(Brics is a 10-nation grouping — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, and five new members since — that has grown in the past decades to, in its eyes, counterbalance Western influence on global affairs and institutions.)