Nations puzzle over how to respond to US trade war as global markets wobble

A stock exchange trader sits in front of his monitors on the trading floor of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Arne Dedert/dpa via AP)

America’s trading partners wrestled with responses to US President Donald Trump’s blast of tariff hikes and some planned to send negotiators to Washington, while the head of the European Union’s executive commission offered mutual reduction of tariffs to zero on some goods.

“We stand ready to negotiate with the United States,” said commission President Ursula von der Leyen.