Last week (Aug. 22), Germany's foreign minister, Heiko Maas, proposed a way for Europe to skirt U.S. sanction policy and upset the international financial order. Maas, writing for the German business magazine Handensblatt, argued that Europe should establish an independent financial payments system to protect European companies from U.S. sanctions and tariffs. The proposal, while controversial, has far-reaching consequences not only for diplomatic relations between Europe and the United States, but for Trump's tariffs... Tags: Tariffs To get full access to all Money Morning content, click here About Money Morning: Money Morning gives you access to a team of ten market experts with more than 250 years of combined investing experience – for free . Our experts – who have appeared on FOXBusiness, CNBC, NPR, and BloombergTV – deliver daily investing tips and stock picks, provide analysis with actions to take, and answer your biggest market questions. Our goal is to help our millions of e-newsletter subscribers and Moneymorning.com visitors become smarter, more confident investors. Disclaimer: © 2018 Money Morning and Money Map Press. All Rights Reserved. Protected by copyright of the United States and international treaties. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution (electronic or otherwise, including the world wide web), of content from this webpage, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of Money Morning. 16 W. Madison St. Baltimore, MD, 21201. The post Germany's Bold Play Could Devastate Trump's Tariff Strategy appeared first on Money Morning - We Make Investing Profitable .