{"id":139139,"date":"2026-01-25T08:20:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=139139"},"modified":"2026-01-25T08:20:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:20:52","slug":"us-eu-economic-ties-show-why-neither-side-can-decouple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/us-eu-economic-ties-show-why-neither-side-can-decouple\/","title":{"rendered":"US\u2013EU economic ties show why neither side can decouple"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header post-header--conveyor\">\n<div class=\"post-header__text\">\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>US President\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/us-president-donald-trump-russia-ukraine-israel-gaza-tariffs-trade-war\/t-19434433\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0argues that the\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/us-economy\/t-64541923\">US economy<\/a>\u00a0is disadvantaged in global markets and wants to reduce the\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/trade\/t-42950310\">trade deficit<\/a>\u00a0through\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/trump-tariffs\/t-71496505\">tariffs<\/a>. Taken together, the 27 member states of the\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/european-union-eu\/t-17440066\">European Union<\/a> form the United States&#8217; largest trading partner.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the key questions and answers on trade disputes and mutual dependence.<\/p>\n<h2>How large is trade between the EU and the US?<\/h2>\n<p>Together, the EU and the US account for more than 40% of global economic output and nearly one-third of world trade. In 2024, they exchanged goods worth more than $975 billion (\u20ac867 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Including services, total trans-Atlantic trade reached \u20ac1.68 trillion ($1.97 trillion) in 2024, according to\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" title=\"External link \u2014 a report\" href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/infographics\/eu-us-trade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener follow\">a report<\/a>\u00a0by the European Council, the body representing EU heads of state and government.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/useu-economic-ties-show-why-neither-side-can-decouple\/a-75610955\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#68cf8a;border-color:#54a66f;border-radius:10px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:8px 26px;font-size:20px;line-height:30px;border-color:#96deae;border-radius:10px;text-shadow:none\"><i class=\"sui sui-sign-out\" style=\"font-size:20px;color:#FFFFFF\"><\/i>  <small style=\"padding-bottom:8px;color:#FFFFFF\">Click here for full article at DW<\/small><\/span><\/a><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0argues that the\u00a0US economy\u00a0is disadvantaged in global markets and wants to reduce the\u00a0trade deficit\u00a0through\u00a0tariffs. Taken together, the 27 member states of the\u00a0European Union form the United States&#8217; largest &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,58,5,47],"tags":[138,1784,800],"class_list":["post-139139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-continental-europe","category-government","category-news","category-north-america","tag-eu","tag-trade-deals","tag-trump"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}