Lutnick Is Using Metals Tariffs as Leverage Over the EU

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick went to Brussels this week with a refreshingly direct message: if Europe wants relief from American steel and aluminum tariffs, it will have to ease up on its regulatory and tax assault on U.S. technology companies.

Notice the straightforwardness of this offer. There’s no need for elaborate moral framing or appeals to “shared values.” Just a simple transaction : we have something you want, you have something we want—let’s make a deal. This is what the real-world application of President Donald Trump’s governing philosophy looks like.

This is what trade…

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