{"id":369029,"date":"2025-08-24T05:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369029\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T05:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:35:13","slug":"donald-trumps-self-imposed-economic-barriers-may-well-backfire-just-look-at-the-uk-and-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369029\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s self-imposed economic barriers may well backfire \u2013 just look at the UK and Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">EU\u2019s trade deal saw Von der Leyen accept terms that weaken Europe\u2019s trade position\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and US president Donald Trump in Scotland on July 27, 2025. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9e2e41dd-5921-4d2a-a16f-30cd2d0ee794.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and US president Donald Trump in Scotland on July 27, 2025. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Back in April, Donald Trump\u2019s so-called \u201cLiberation Day\u201d tariff blitz drew sneers in Europe. No one\u2019s laughing now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Following the EU\u2019s climbdown at the trade talks, the bloc has agreed to more than triple the unweighted tariff on US trade \u2013 from 4.8pc to 15pc. To cut the wound deeper, the euro has strengthened against the dollar by 12pc this year, making European exports to the US even more expensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EU\u2019s trade deal saw Von der Leyen accept terms that weaken Europe\u2019s trade position European Commission president Ursula&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,32,2000,299,5187,2557,1699,4884,479,16,15,1220,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-369029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-commission","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-tariffs","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115082122096939522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}