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Headline Roundup July 29th, 2018

US and EU Announce Agreement on Trade

Summary from the AllSides News Team

Earlier this week, President Trump and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker made a joint announcement on what they described as a "new phase" in EU-US relations after meeting at the White House to discuss trade. Before this agreement, many had feared an all-out trade war with the EU, but the two parties have agreed to work to lower tariffs and other barriers to trade.

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The big lesson from Trump’s truce on trade? Pushback works.
The big lesson from Trump’s truce on trade? Pushback works.

Washington Post

Opinion

HERE IS the lesson of President Trump’s sudden decision Wednesday to call a truce in his trade war with the European Union: Pushback works.

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Trump and EU's Juncker pull back from all-out trade war
News

The US and EU have agreed to avoid an all-out trade war and work to lower tariffs, in talks that US President Donald Trump hailed as "a very strong understanding".

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Trump is using tariffs to advance a radical free-trade agenda
Opinion

Give President Trump credit. When he chastised NATO allies over their failure to spend adequately on our common defense, his critics said he was endangering the Atlantic alliance. Instead, his tough stance persuaded allies to spend billions more on defense, strengthening NATO instead.

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