european leaders have hinted that expecting a biden bounce for transatlantic relations however that hasn't stopped the e.u. announcing that it's imposing tariffs on $4000000000.00 of u.s. goods the european union trade commission of valdis dombrovskis confirms the retaliator measure is over illegal subsidies paid by the american government to play make of boeing a long running dispute has also seen the trump administration impose tariffs on european goods because of subsidies given to europe's and us. but i speak to christopher thought from consultancy firm beacon economics he joins us from l.a. trade ties between the e.u. on the u.s. have cooled somewhat under president trump haven't they all we expecting that to change underbite almost assuredly look when when trump came in it kept with him of course this idea of america 1st and buy america 1st he basically ran around trying to bully everybody into some sort of deals that he thought would be good for the united states some of those tariffs obviously based on european products were were part of that process almost assure them and biden comes in you're going to find a shift towards far more conciliatory efforts to improve trade relations between the united states in the e.u. anothe