Trump urges EU to boost US energy imports or face tariffs

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. A couple of things Reuters points out: net US-EU trade deficit is about $60 bn

ie the US buys, per capita, under $200 worth of goods/services (more goods flow from EU to USA; more services the other direction) more than it sells. That's not "tremendous"; it's about 0.2% of US GDP. And that is not, of course, just a flow of money; it's what is bought and sold on the free market.

And the second point is that it's the free market that determines how much oil and gas the EU buys from the USA, not EU governments. Trump is asking the EU to be all "state-controlled economy" and use public money to control its international trade - to benefit Trump's idea of economics.

What a maroon.