With just 10 days to go until President Donald Trump’s country-specific tariffs are set to resume, the White House appears poised to fall short of the sweeping global trade reforms it promised to achieve during the three months they were on hold.

After satisfying Donald Trump's calls for Europe to ramp up defence spending in NATO, EU leaders were meeting in Brussels Thursday on the next big challenge ahead: how to seal a trade deal with the US leader.

The European Union has confirmed it’s now open to signing a trade deal with President Trump, right as the United States locks in a separate deal with China. On Thursday, during a summit in Brussels, EU officials said a new American proposal had been submitted and shared with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen,