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Trump tariffs another risk for Europe

The cost to the euro-zone of the universal tariff which Donald Trump has proposed, along with other likely spillovers from his trade policies, may result in a hit to the euro-zone economy of up to half a percent of GDP. The damage would be bigger if this triggered a transatlantic or EU-China trade war.

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