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Such lists are typically designed to cause economic pain in the home states of Republican lawmakers who could influence Trump to abandon his trade war. Usually straight-laced trade bureaucrats will admit if pressed that compiling them is the most fun part of their job.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Commission announced a two-stage retaliation covering €26 billion in EU exports that far exceeded a trade fight that blew up in Trump’s first term.

Absent a negotiated settlement it will, from April 1, reimpose measures in response to €8 billion in U.S. tariffs — including on iconic American products such as Harley-Davidson motorcycles, bourbon and jeans. And, from mid-April, it will set further countermeasures over €18 billion in new U.S. tariffs, subject to the approval of EU member countries.

The EU executive has launched a survey seeking the views of those affected by the U.S. tariffs, setting a deadline for submissions of March 26.

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