The Shaky Trade-War Truce: Theme of the Week

This Week Was Trade War Week Again

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Sound familiar? Bloomberg Opinion’s coverage has been dominated by President Donald Trump’s trade-war threats for a few weeks now. This week there was a bit of a wrinkle, though, when Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker struck a truce that momentarily cooled tensions. Big risks still remain, though, and our columnists spotlighted them all week.

Pre-Truce Pieces

How Europe Should Respond to Donald Trump on Trade – Bloomberg’s Editors

The Tariffs Ate My Earnings, Say Industrials – Brooke Sutherland

Louis Vuitton Handbags Can Conquer a Trade War – Andrea Felsted

U.S. Carmakers Need to Patch Their China Hedge – Anjani Trivedi

Post-Truce Pieces

Trump’s Welcome Retreat on Tariffs and Trade Wars – Bloomberg’s Editors

How Trump’s Trade War Unites ECB Hawks and Doves – Melvyn Krauss

How the EU Bureaucrat Won Bigger Than Trump – Leonid Bershidsky

Trump Is Fighting the Wrong Kind of Trade Wars – Noah Smith

If Draghi’s an FX Manipulator, So Is Trump – Ferdinando Giugliano

Oil Is Fine With Wars, Just Not Trade Wars – Liam Denning

This Might Be the Worst Time for a Trump Trade War – Stephen Gandel

Inflation Is Coming, Thanks to Trump’s Tariffs – Barry Ritholtz

China Isn’t Using the Yuan to Fight Tariffs – Christopher Balding

This is the Theme of the Week edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, Sunday’s roundup of our biggest commentary topic this week. New subscribers to the newsletter can sign up here.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Brooke Sample at bsample1@bloomberg.net

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Mark Gongloff is an editor with Bloomberg Opinion. He previously was a managing editor of Fortune.com, ran the Huffington Post's business and technology coverage, and was a columnist, reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal.

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