When negotiating with the Donald Trump administration, things are rarely completely closed or clear. This is what is happening as a result of the agreement signed this Thursday between Brussels and Washington to avoid a trade war. In fact, the door to an undesirable situation such as a battle over trade barriers is not completely closed, as was often the case with pre-Trump diplomacy. A recent article in the British weekly The Economist He was talking about Trump and the Groucho Marx school of diplomacy in reference to the negotiations with Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine, but it could be extended to all areas, such as tariff policy.

When negotiating with the Donald Trump administration, things are rarely completely closed or clear. This is what is happening as a result of the agreement signed this Thursday between Brussels and Washington to avoid a trade war. In fact, the door to an undesirable situation such as a battle over trade barriers is not completely closed, as was often the case with pre-Trump diplomacy. A recent article in the British weekly The Economist He was talking about Trump and the Groucho Marx school of diplomacy in reference to the negotiations with Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine, but it could be extended to all areas, such as tariff policy.