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Ursula von der Leyen: “We have an excellent trade relation. It's a huge volume of…”

Featuring: Ursula von der Leyen, Christian Democratic Union | President of the European Commission | International

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Donald Trump and Ursula von der Leyen Discuss US-EU Trade Relations and Global Issues in Scotland

Published | Video Starts at 14:22

So you can call it fairness, you can call it rebalancing. We have a surplus. The United States has a deficit and we have to rebalance it. We have an excellent trade relation. It's a huge volume of trade that we have together. So we will make it more sustainable. Mr. Trump, can you do better than 15% tariff rate for the EU? Better meaning lower? (14:22–14:27)

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Asserts that the EU and US have an excellent trade relationship with a large trade volume.

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