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US and Germany Face Off Over Trade

Meanwhile finance ministers from the G20 group of nations met in Germany in a bid to also lessen trade tensions.

Donald Trump has had his first personal encounter with the German leader Angela Merkel. During his election campaign he claimed that his opponent, Hillary Clinton wanted to be a US version of Mrs Merkel - and that wasn't meant as a compliment. Meanwhile, in Baden Baden, in Germany, America's Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is meeting finance ministers from the biggest economies in the world - their aim: avoiding a global trade war.

(Picture: US President Donald Trump greets Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, as she arrives to the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC. Picture Credit: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images).

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Fri 17 Mar 2017 22:32GMT

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