Trump said in the afternoon that he was "surprised that Harley-Davidson, of all companies, would be the first to wave the White Flag". Experts following the US' escalating trade spat with Europe and beyond are not surprised by Harley-Davidson's action. Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning columnist, said what happened to Harley-Davidson will happen tomorrow to "a lot of other businesses". It could slash 200 more jobs by the end of July and be out of business around Labor Day," Missourinet.com reported on Friday. Harley-Davidson is the latest example of how businesses are finding themselves in the crosshairs amid brewing trade fights between the US and its major trader partners.