US President Donald Trump says the European Union’s trade barriers are damaging American manufacturing, making the bloc even more harmful to the US than China, which is engaged in a trade war with Washington.
“The European Union treats us, I would say, worse than China, they’re just smaller,” Trump told a gathering of real estate agents in Washington on Friday.
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“They have trade barriers. They don’t want our farm products, they don’t want our cars. They send Mercedes-Benz’s in here like they’re cookies. They send BMWs here. We hardly tax them at all,” he added.