Trump has escalated his demands on the EU following weeks of negotiations over a possible framework deal, the Financial Times reported.

The US president’s hardened stance aims to test the EU’s pain threshold after weeks of talks on a framework agreement that would have maintained a baseline tariff of 10 per cent on most goods. People familiar with the negotiations say Trump has also been unmoved by the latest EU offer to reduce car tariffs,

Donald Trump has decided to jack up tariffs on every single good coming from Europe, pushing for a baseline rate of 15% to 20% in the next trade deal, according to the Financial Times. This comes after multiple rounds of back-and-forth talks with Brussels that aimed to hold tariffs at 10%,