It comes as global leaders try to respond to the White House's trade threats, including looming "reciprocal" tariffs Trump has promised to announce on 2 April. Over the last week,

The European Union is delaying until mid-April its retaliatory trade action over the Trump administration’s increase in tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to 25%, senior officials said Thursday.

The European Union plans to impose new tariffs on imports of certain U.S. products such as bourbon whiskey, jeans, motorcycles, boats and peanut butter in mid-April. The measure i