President Trump said he reached a trade agreement on Sunday with the European Union, avoiding a damaging trade war with the U.S.’s largest trading partner and marking his biggest deal so far in his attempt to remake the global trading system through higher tariffs for U.S. trading partners.
Trump said the U.S. would set a baseline tariff of 15% for European goods, including automobiles. He said the EU had agreed as part of the deal to buy $750 billion of energy products from the U.S. and invest an additional $600 billion in the U.S.