“We have, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars of deficits with the E.U., and nobody’s happy with it,” Mr. Trump said of the European Union. “We’re going to do something about it.”

Mr. Trump did not specify what “something” might entail. But at another point in the speech he renewed his promise for across-the-board tariffs.

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