and the u.s. will continue in an effort to prevent a trade war. earlier i talked to carolyn pickering senior economist at bear them back in london and asked him what he makes of the decision to extend the threat of tariffs one more month. well you certainly don t cure the world of an evil by adult team get but when it comes to trade it looks as if donald trump is trying to create some leverage over the e.u. let me work with smaller markets but it s likely that the e.u. along with china with the big internal markets won t succumb to the pressure as easy as say mexico or canada would. however we do know that trump wants things to change and as we saw in the piece we do know that the e.u. has higher tariffs for u.s. products do you think trump will end up getting what he wants anyway. in the end after creating a little storm in a teacup may indeed find the e.u. in the u.s. lower tariffs remember there was