Trump’s Tariffs Send Shock Waves Through Spain’s Olive Groves

The American fighter jets roaring above Joaquín García as he strolls among the 8,000 trees on his family farm in southern Spain are a reminder of the battle the U.S. administration is waging against his cash crop. García grows olives—one more product ensnared in the dragnet of President Donald Trump’s trade wars—and his groves border the Morón Air Base, which hosts hundreds of U.S. military personnel and their families. He and others in the area say they’ve long seen it as a symbol of the close ties between Washington and Madrid.

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That relationship is being put to the ...