After the Biden administration echoes Trump’s restrictive trade views, European officials worry the U.S. isn’t what it used to be; ‘The honeymoon is over’

President Biden’s 2021 declaration that “America is back” was welcomed by European officials eager to move past their trade troubles with the Trump administration.

Yet instead of reversing policies driven by Donald Trump’s protectionist view, Biden hasadvanced many of them. The president has kept trade barriers in place, left Europeancompanies out of subsidies designed to bolster U.S. manufacturing and surprised allies withtighter restrictions on Chinese access to American technology.

Many Europeans fear that Trump, seemingly en route to the Republican nomination , mightabandon Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, as well as inject chaos intoglobal trade. They have nonetheless come to believe that regardless of the winner of theexpected Biden-Trump rematch, U.S. economic policies have tilted from their favor. “Thehoneymoon is over,” one European diplomat said.

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