beef exports to europe trade tensions have risen between the e.u. and the u.s. during trump's 1st years in office but both sides have called this deal a step forward trump has made shaking up mobile trade a central pillar of his presidency talks on a transatlantic trade deal and launching a trade war with china on thursday he threatened to impose a new 10 percent tariff on $300000000000.00 of chinese imports and global markets took a dip in response trump defends his combative trade tactics as part of his america 1st policy trump said the deal was the result of a breakthrough in talks with the e.u. . today we're signing a breakthrough agreement that will make it easier to export american beef into the european union we've been under negotiation quite a while. the farmers we didn't think were being treated fair but the european union