Europe to Test Trump’s Bandwidth for Tariff Talks: Supply Lines

With just over 60 days to go until President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are set to snap into force, the race to do trade deals with the US is expanding beyond a few export powers in Asia.

Next week, the European Union is planning to share a paper with the US that will set out a package of proposals to kick-start trade negotiations with Washington, our Bloomberg colleagues in Brussels and London reported late Wednesday.

Brussels will propose lowering trade and non-tariff barriers, boosting European investments in the US, cooperating on global challenges such as tackling China’s steel overcapacity, and ...