At the end of last week, US President Donald Trump threatened to tax steel imports from the EU, accusing the EU bloc of being "very protectionist".
"We have things that we can hardly sell to the EU. They are very protectionist, and we are not", he told journalists on his plane to Paris – to where he was travelling to take part in the Bastille Day festivities of 14 July alongside France's President Emmanuel Macron.
Trump indicated that he would be ready to punish the EU and its...