president donald trump has defended his decision to put tires on stephen elop million imports and singled german comic has as a special target european union they kill us open up the barriers at get rid of your carriers and if you don't do that we're going to tax receipt these bans we're going to tax the m.-w. you want to have fun look you want to have money come into our country. we heading for a trade war and what can europe do to avoid it i asked the chief economist of germany's command spunk york if europe should prepared to fight back i thought so one of the have rigs to go but then i found out that the the european union is even more protectionist than the united states your opinion travis i usually higher than those imposed by the united states they are far and i think a policy of retaliation is not the right approach the european union should should show to show talk to trump and indeed to talk trump has offered the possibility is there to come to an agreement to come to a compromise so you say you trump has a point that do you i mean what what are the tariffs that be you could lo