EVER SINCE President Donald Trump unveiled his Liberation Day tariffs in April, the world’s largest buying and selling relationship had been on the rocks. The European Union swung from attempting to sweet-talk America into making a deal, to threatening retaliation. On July twenty seventh dealmaking received out. At his golf course in Scotland the president and Ursula von der Leyen, the pinnacle of the European Fee, unveiled the define of a preliminary commerce settlement. The bloc has pulled off a difficult balancing act: making sufficient concessions to maintain Mr Trump blissful, whereas limiting the financial harm.