Douglas Busvine
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Road-worn hack now editing Trade & Competition at POLITICO Europe — dbusvine@politico.eu
Democratic-led states sue to block Trump's latest wave of tariffs www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Democratic-led states sue to block Trump's latest wave of tariffs
Monday’s complaint is the latest in a series of new legal challenges to President Donald Trump's forced labor tariffs.
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. Noah Barkin explains German econ minister Reiche's open defiance of Merz Promised to keep her Brussels meet with Wang Wentao - on eve of EU-China talks - under wraps, then put out a press release. Hid French non-paper on imbalances for 6 months from other govt depts
Russian defense and security firms are using supply chains in India to import thousands of security-linked goods originally made in Europe, new data tracking the scale of the trade shared with POLITICO shows.
Russia importing sensitive UK, EU tech through India, data shows
Researchers tracked around 50,000 sensitive and dual-use goods reaching Russia via India since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, raising questions as Britain and the EU deepen trade ties with New Delhi.
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Everyone knows the ’forced Labor tariffs’ are fake. Question is whether the Supreme Court is so corrupt as to let this Trump abomination stand www.piie.com/blogs/realti...
Trump's new tariffs over forced labor are unlikely to survive a court challenge
The Trump administration is again shifting its stated rationale for placing comprehensive tariffs on imports of nearly all goods from virtually all countries. After originally presenting such measures...
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Former American trade negotiator here. I wouldn’t negotiate with us.
Judges Can Void a Tariff. They Can't Rebuild Our Reputation. | The Daily Economy
The trust between America and its allies took generations to build and is being spent at a record pace.
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Dunkirk is a success story the EU wants to replicate Europe-wide: a declining steel town reinvented through battery gigafactories, green industry and billions in investment. The trouble is, much of what made it work can’t simply be legislated in Brussels.
This once-depressed region pulled off an industrial revival. Can Europe clone it?
The EU wants to copy Dunkirk’s comeback through its Industrial Accelerator Act. The formula will be hard to reproduce.
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A year after Donald Trump shook hands with Ursula von der Leyen on a trade deal, POLITICO assesses how their commitments have held up. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/trad...
my colleague Simon Shuster has done a deep dive into Ukraine's most succesful drone and missile designer, and it is quite a story www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Ukraine’s Dr. Strangelove
A rocket designer with a dubious past sets out to build a missile shield with Europe—and without America.
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All the trade promises the EU and the US never meant to keep www.politico.eu/article/trad...
All the trade promises the EU and the US never meant to keep
A year after Donald Trump shook hands with Ursula von der Leyen on a trade deal, POLITICO assesses how their commitments have held up.
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Trump has monetized the presidency far more than any before him, reaping a stunning windfall in his first year back in the White House, including about $1.4 billion from his family’s cryptocurrency businesses. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...
Trump Had a Billion-Dollar Windfall After Returning to the White House
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The EU has reached deals with a dozen close trading partners for smaller reductions in tariff-free steel import quotas, while China and other countries will bear the brunt of cuts under a new market access regime.
EU reaches deals with a dozen countries for smaller steel quota cuts
Countries with free-trade deals take a smaller hit as the EU slashes duty-free steel quotas by nearly half overall.
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Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...
Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit.
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EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič is meeting his Chinese counterpart today with a mandate to strengthen the bloc’s trade defenses against China’s surging exports. He hopes to show that, this time, Europe means business. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/eu-a...
When EU governments endorsed the trade deal with the U.S., the logic was simple: Deliver on Brussels’ side of the bargain, avoid a tariff war and protect transatlantic stability. But one of the bloc’s top negotiators, Bernd Lange, had other ideas. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/the-...
EU lawmakers finally vote today on the transatlantic trade deal struck 10 months ago. Why did it take so long? Bernd Lange: The secret EU trade negotiator who made Trump wait By @camgijs.bsky.social, @maxgriera.bsky.social and Nette Nöstlinger. www.politico.eu/article/the-...
The secret EU trade negotiator who made Trump wait
Top trade lawmaker Bernd Lange delayed a transatlantic deal for months, frustrating both Washington and Brussels. While he didn’t get everything he wanted, he says he got what Europe needed.
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Peak Macron: Emmanuel Macron is set to host a video call between G7 countries and China to address global trade imbalances EU official: French outreach to China “a good initiative” within the “wrong format.” "G7 is anything but neutral"
Macron courts China with G7 outreach
France wants to get China to agree on the need to address global trade imbalances.
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China is killing Europe’s chemicals industry. Brussels wants to intervene. By @carlomartu.bsky.social www.politico.eu/article/euro...
China is killing Europe’s chemicals industry. Brussels wants to intervene.
Manufacturers are closing plants and cutting jobs as the EU debates how hard to push back against China.
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Joined Politicos podcast this morning, on the day the Commission College discusses its response to the second China shock. With Grzegorz from MERICS. www.politico.eu/podcast/brus...
China: the ‘abusive’ partner the EU just can’t quit?
Is the EU finally ready to get serious about China? That’s the question increasingly dominating conversations in Brussels as fears grow that Europe is being squeezed by Beijing’s industrial machine…
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Inside the unraveling of U.S. diplomacy under Trump
Inside the unraveling of U.S. diplomacy under Trump
Donald Trump’s threats, personal envoys and hollowed‑out embassies are reshaping U.S. diplomacy. Allies from Europe to Asia are rewriting the rules of engagement — ignoring the president’s rhetoric an...
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At least three problems with EU action on China: 1 - There aren't realistic industrial goals for Europe 2 - Big companies want to do business with China 3 - Government ability to change what companies do is limited www.politico.eu/article/eu-g...
EU bets Germany will back trade clampdown as ‘Chinese steamroller’ squeezes industry
Fears over flagging industries has created an opportunity for Brussels to get tough on Beijing, officials and diplomats say.
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The European Union agreed early this morning to implement a trade deal with the United States, likely averting a threat by President Donald Trump to punish further delay with oppressive tariffs.
EU strikes deal on Trump trade pact
Negotiators said the compromise will give European manufacturers more certainty, even though Brussels can’t guarantee Washington will stick to the deal.
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After more than five hours of talks, EU negotiators have agreed to implement a trade deal with the U.S. The move will likely avert Donald Trump’s threat to punish further delay with oppressive tariffs. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
Brad and @sandertordoir.bsky.social are doing God’s work cutting through German political inertia with facts and figures. Required reading - especially in Berlin, and especially given the debates coming this summer.
Sander Tordoir@sandertordoir.bsky.social · 3mo agoGermany is the epicentre of the China Shock 2.0 reverberating in global markets In a new joint paper, CFR's Brad Setser and I show the shock is a key driver of Germany’s economic malaise. And it's accelerating Berlin needs to stop admiring the problem, and join efforts to fight back 1/many
“Making a Career in Dictatorship,” a new book by two German political scientists, Adam Scharpf and Christian Glassel, reads like what you might get if you crossed Hannah Arendt’s ideas about the “banality of evil” with a business school guide on how to get the most out of low performers.
Stephan Faris@stephanfaris.bsky.social · 3mo agoDepressing: "Would-be authoritarians don’t need to staff their regimes with ideological true believers, offer enticements or draconian punishments to make power grabs. They just need to figure out how to target their ideal labor pool: the frustrated and mediocre." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...
A deal between the EU institutions to put last year’s transatlantic trade deal is within reach — but will it be done? Talks start at 9 p.m. tonight ... @camgijs.bsky.social previews for @politico.eu www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...
EU tiptoes toward approving US trade deal
A compromise between EU lawmakers and governments is within reach as the clock runs down on Donald Trump’s threat to hike auto tariffs.
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The White House had 48+ hours to workshop this document but the result is a strikingly thin gruel. Among others- little comfort in the reference to rare earths/critical minerals . What U.S. concerns will Beijing actually “address” and how/when?🧐 www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Secures Historic Deals with China, Delivering for American Workers, Farmers, and Industry
CONTRIBUTING TO PEACE AND PROSPERITY: This week, during the first visit of a U.S. President to the People’s Republic of China since 2017, President Donald
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EU trade officials were tasked with drawing up a “more assertive and effective trade defense policy” to deal with Beijing, according to a document circulated within the executive shared with POLITICO. www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
EU Commission plans new squeeze on Chinese trade
The proposals will be put to European leaders at a summit next month, officials say.
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This is good: The Kumquat Conspiracy: A Section 301 Petition open.substack.com/pub/christop...
The Kumquat Conspiracy: A Section 301 Petition
One Minnesota grower’s fight against the citrus cartel of Pasco County, Florida
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