{"id":1128,"date":"2025-04-11T14:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/as-trump-upends-global-trade-europe-sees-an-opportunity\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T14:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:30:24","slug":"as-trump-upends-global-trade-europe-sees-an-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/as-trump-upends-global-trade-europe-sees-an-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"As Trump Upends Global Trade, Europe Sees an Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Trump has big ambitions for the global trading system and is using tariffs to try to rip it down and rebuild it. But the European Union is taking action after action to make sure the continent is at the center of whatever world comes next.<\/p>\n

As one of the globe\u2019s biggest<\/a> and most open economies, the E.U. has a lot on the line as the rules of trade undergo a once-in-a-generation upheaval. Its companies benefit<\/a> from sending their cars, pharmaceuticals and machinery overseas. Its consumers benefit from American search engines and foreign fuels.<\/p>\n

Those high stakes aren\u2019t lost on Europe.<\/p>\n

Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, the E.U.\u2019s executive arm, has spent the past several weeks on calls and in meetings with global leaders. She and her colleagues are wheeling and dealing to deepen existing trade agreements and strike new ones. They are discussing how they can reduce barriers between individual European countries.<\/p>\n

And they are talking tough on China, trying to make sure that it does not dump cheap metals and chemicals onto the European market as it loses access to American customers because of high Trump tariffs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n