As Donald Trump restores his offensive commercial agenda, threatening the US key allies, the European Union and major economies around the world are turning to each other, forming a new global commercial axis that leaves America on the sidelines.

The commercial chaos brings closer to the allies of America and at the same time removes them from the United States. As this is the case, the European Union is trying to focus on a new world trade map.

The block was informed this weekend that Washington would impose a 30% duties on the EU from August 1. European Commission President Ursula von der Laien has pledged to continue negotiations. At the same time, it has made it clear that while the EU will delay the imposition of countermeasures by the beginning of August, it would continue to draw up plans for a dynamic response.

However, this is not the only strategy. Europe, like many of the US trade partners, is now looking for more credible allies, the New York Times said in an article.

“We live in troubled times and when economic uncertainty encounters geopolitical instability, partners as we must come closer,” von der Layen told Brussels on Sunday during a joint press conference with Indonesian President Pragovo.

While US President Donald Trump threatens many countries with hard duties, including Indonesia, the European Union is moving in the opposite direction: it seeks to relax commercial barriers and deepen its economic relations.

“In difficult times, some are turning inward, isolation and fragmentation,” said Ursula von der Laien. And indirectly to leaders who have been unhappy with Donald Trump’s threats, he added: “You are always welcome here and you can rely on Europe.”

This is a double reality picture that now tends to become the rule:

On the one hand, the United States is causing uncertainty, shaking weeks of negotiations and intensifying threats. On the other hand, the European Union and other US trade partners are reinforcing relations between them, carving out the ground for a global trade system that is less and less based on unpredictable United States.

“We in Southeast Asia, and especially in Indonesia, we consider Europe extremely important to ensure global stability,” said Indonesia’s President, Prambovo Subiado.

However, he admitted that it is difficult to get away from the US, predicting that America will remain a world leader, given that it hosts the world’s largest economy, a dynamic consumer market and advanced technologies and services.

But many United States trade partners feel that they have no choice but to differentiate their partnerships. And while commercial relationships are difficult to change, it is just as difficult to return to the previous situation when they have already been fully reorganized.

This is exactly what is happening right now.

European Union negotiators were involved in months of intense consultations with their US counterparts before Donald Trump’s announcement. By the middle of the week, Brussels hoped that they were approaching at least one agreement: the EU would accept a key duty of 10%, but seeking exceptions for critical areas.

Instead, Trump began to leave on Thursday that the block, one of the most important US partners in the US, was to receive an official letter by imposing a generalized and sweeping tariff rate.

On Friday, the White House officially informed European officials that the talks were collapsing. And on Saturday, the public was informed through Trump’s post on social media that the European Union would be subject to a 30%duties.

Donald Trump announced at the same time that he would impose similar tariffs on goods from Mexico, while for Canada the rate is slightly higher at 35%. Corresponding percentages – 35% for Thailand and Bangladesh, 50% for Brazil – specify the same course for dozens of other US trade partners.

Although Trump has previously withdrawn from duty threats, it has also left the possibility of new negotiations by 1 August, the date on which the new contributors are going to come into force. The European Union and other economies appear willing to continue talks.

However, the climate is becoming more and more hostile.

Mutztaba Rahman, head of Europe at the Eurasia Group Political Analysis Company, said Trump was “tooling uncertainty” to force the trade partners into concessions, describing his latest moves “total shift in targets”.

Trump’s announcement on Saturday sparked voices in Europe in favor of a strong response.

“Trump is trying to divide and terrorize Europe,” said Brando Benifei, head of the European Parliament’s delegation on relations with the United States.

However, Ursula von der Laien announced on Sunday that the European Union will wait until early August before activating the ready -made countermeasures it has prepared in response. These countermeasures cover products worth almost $ 25 billion.

These are duties that had already been suspended once and were due to enter into force early Tuesday morning, but the block decided to give the negotiations a little bit.

“At the same time, we will continue to prepare additional countermeasures,” said Ursula von der Layen.

The imposition of countermeasures, however, is only the first step; perhaps even more important, in the long run, to prove to tighten relationships with external allies.

Since February, when Donald Trump began pushing for the rearrangement of the global trade system, the European Union has accelerated the signing of new trade agreements and deepening existing ones.

Canada and the European Union have enhanced their cooperation. Britain and the EU, five years after Brexit, are now in the re -establishment phase. At the same time, the block is moving to closer trade relations with India and South Africa, as well as with South America and Asia countries.

And it’s not just the EU that adopts this strategy: Canada is approaching Southeast Asia, while Brazil and Mexico work to enhance their links.

There is even the idea of creating new commercial structures that exclude both the United States and China, which is widely accused of overproduction of products flooding global markets at extremely low prices.

Von der Layen has already proposed a new partnership between the EU and a commercial group of 11 countries, including Japan, Vietnam and Australia – but not the United States or China.

A key question, according to analysts, is this: Will America’s allies dare to take one step further? Instead of just boosting cooperation with each other by leaving the US out, could they rally with the aim of dealing with the United States collectively?

Large economies may consider a coordinated reaction to Donald Trump’s new duties, estimates Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, a senior researcher at Bruegel, Think Tank Economic Policy based in Brussels. Such a partnership, he notes, would give them greater negotiating power.

“I would say we have to start observing a coordination,” he said. “That would be the logical step.”