President Biden’s 2021 declaration that “America is back" was welcomed by European officials eager to move past their trade troubles with the Trump administration.

       Yet instead of reversing policies driven by Donald Trump’s protectionist view, Biden has advanced many of them. The president has kept trade barriers in place, left European companies out of subsidies designed to bolster U.S. manufacturing and surprised allies with tighter restrictions on Chinese access to American technology.

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