Look at services when griping about trade deficit: EU to Donald Trump

The global commercial order is being shaken by Trump's use of a US trade-law provision on national security to justify steel and aluminium tariffs against a host of countries

The European Union's top two officials warned about greater trade tensions with the US as President Donald Trump weighs tariffs on foreign cars after irking American allies with metal-import levies. 

EU President Donald Tusk said Europe must be prepared for "worst-case scenarios" in international commerce, echoing an alarm he sounded before a European summit last week. Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the European Commission, the 28-nation bloc's executive arm, said Trump's fixation on a US trade deficit in goods ignores a services surplus. 

"We feel that the deficit is on the other side," Juncker told the European Parliament on Tuesday in Strasbourg, France.