trump administration already imposed tariffs on chinese imports last month but china's foreign trade has so far shrugged off the dispute exports showed a surprising growth in july more than twelve percent compared to the same period last year. doing business with iran just got tricky due to washington's new sanctions many multinationals do business with both the u.s. and iran but president donald trump says it's now either or that's something that has left european companies concerned and brussels isn't happy either it has responded with legislation. as european companies are in a tough bind washington says firms that do business with iran will be excluded from the u.s. market the e.u. has responded with legislation that bans european companies from complying with the sanctions brussels sent a clear signal. we believe that it is and it has to be to.