The Texas Rangers have finished the celebration by getting their World Series rings

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Marcus Semien was told before he saw his first World Series ring how nice it was going to be.

“They weren't lying at all,” said the Texas Rangers' All-Star second baseman.

Two days after unfurling the franchise's first championship banner on opening day, the Rangers finished the celebrating by getting their rings in another pregame ceremony Saturday night before the second of a three-game opening series against the Chicago Cubs.

The numbers of diamonds, sapphires, rubies and other stones cover a host of significant stats. There's the perfect 11-0 postseason road record, an MLB first, and the 52 points of diamonds in the word “champions” represent the seasons the franchise has been in Texas since moving from Washington.

The stones signifying the road record are inside the “T” logo that is the centerpiece, outlined by 23 red rubies for the year the team won the championship and surrounded by 103 blue sapphires for the combined number of victories in the regular season and playoffs.

The face of the ring flips to reveal another “T” logo, with 49 red rubies inside it representing the number of players on the 2023 roster.

Under the removable face is the 11-0 road record with the words “road dominance.” Each player has his last name and number on one side of the ring, with his signature on the bottom of the inside of the ring.

Texas swept Tampa Bay in a best-of-three AL wild-card series before winning twice in Baltimore to start an AL Division Series sweep capped by Texas' first home victory of the postseason.

The road team won all seven games when the Rangers beat the defending champion Houston Astros in the AL Championship Series. Texas won three times in Arizona in a five-game victory over the Diamondbacks to win the World Series.

There is one diamond in the World Series trophy to represent the first championship in franchise history. The 3mm stone inside the trophy is to call out the number of American League championships the Rangers have won.

“The ring tells the story,” Semien said. “You take looks at that ring and every single angle, there’s a story to it. The way we won the World Series, road games and just different things that you sit back and think, ‘Oh yeah, we did that, that was true. We did do that.’”

Players got a sneak peek at the rings at a dinner Friday night, but that didn't stop the smiles when they took the rings out of the boxes after being introduced one-by-one by longtime public address announcer Chuck Morgan.

It wasn't long before slugging star Adolis García, the ALCS MVP, had the ring on a finger for the cameras as the players lined the infield, shortly after Semien was shown with a big smile as he held his.

Morgan, who has been with the club every year but once since joining the Rangers in 1983, was the first to receive his ring when the club revealed details earlier Saturday.

“There are no words I can describe to get the first one,” an emotional Morgan said a few hours before the ceremony. “There's so many other people that were probably more worthy than me, but it's a huge, huge honor.”

Jason of Beverly Hills designed the ring after CEO Jason Arasheben said his company's bid to design the World Series ring was denied for 17 consecutive seasons.

“There was a lot of pressure when designing this ring, not just because it was a first for the Rangers, but because it is also our very first World Series ring,” Arasheben said while noting his company has now designed championship rings in each of the four major pro sports in the U.S.

AP Baseball Writer Stephen Hawkins contributed to this story.

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Texas Rangers players, coaches and the owner pose together after receiving their World Series rings before a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, Saturday, March 30, 2024, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)

The Texas Rangers championship ring is seen Saturday, March 30, 2024 in Arlington Texas. The Texas Rangers and staff will receive their World Series championship rings during a pre-game ceremony before the Texas Rangers take on the Chicago Cubs in a baseball game. (AP Photo/Stephen Hawkins)

The Texas Rangers championship ring is seen Saturday, March 30, 2024 in Arlington Texas. The Texas Rangers and staff will receive their World Series championship rings during a pre-game ceremony before the Texas Rangers take on the Chicago Cubs in a baseball game. (AP Photo/Stephen Hawkins)

Texas Rangers longtime public address announcer Chuck Morgan admires his World Series championship ring, Saturday, March 30, 2024 in Arlington Texas. The Texas Rangers and staff will receive their World Series championship rings during a pre-game ceremony before the Texas Rangers take on the Chicago Cubs in a baseball game. (AP Photo/Stephen Hawkins)

The Texas Rangers championship ring is seen Saturday, March 30, 2024 in Arlington Texas. The Texas Rangers and staff will receive their World Series championship rings during a pre-game ceremony before the Texas Rangers take on the Chicago Cubs in a baseball game. (AP Photo/Stephen Hawkins)

Texas Rangers pitcher Jacob deGrom, front, hugs general manager Chris Young, back, during the World Series ring ceremony before a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, Saturday, March 30, 2024, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)

Texas Rangers' Corey Seager, left, and Marcus Semien, right, review their World Series rings before a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, Saturday, March 30, 2024, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)

Texas Rangers players Nathan Eovaldi, left; Adolis Garcia, center; and Jon Gray, right, pose with their World Series rings before a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, Saturday, March 30, 2024, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)

BRUSSELS (AP) — America’s trading partners wrestled with responses to U.S. President Donald Trump's blast of tariff hikes and some planned to send negotiators to Washington, while the head of the European Union’s executive commission offered mutual reduction of tariffs - while warning that retaliation was an option too.

“We stand ready to negotiate with the United States,” said commission President Ursula von der Leyen. “Indeed, we have offered zero for zero tariffs for industrial goods, as we have successfully done with many other trading partners. Because Europe is always ready for a good deal.”

But she warned that “we are also prepared to respond through countermeasures and defend our interests.”

China has already hit back against the U.S. with retaliatory tariffs and similar actions from Europe and elsewhere remain a significant possibility.

The U.S. and the EU had a zero-for-zero deal on wine and spirits from 1997 to 2018, and reducing many tariffs to zero was a goal of complex negotiations for a US-Europe free-trade deal before negotiations stalled in 2016.

Yet there was little indication Trump is ready to deal. The EU trade commissioner, Maros Sefcovic, spoke for two hours with Trump administration Friday and would say only that “we stay in touch.”

And White House trade adviser Peter Navarro told CNBC on Monday that an offer by Vietnam to eliminate tariffs on U.S. imports would not lead to a pullback on the the newly announced 46% levy on its imports to the U.S.

“Let’s take Vietnam. When they come to us and say ‘we’ll go to zero tariffs,’ that means nothing to us because it’s the non-tariff cheating that matters,” Navarro said on CNBC

Major trade partner China was taking a tougher line and accused the U.S. of “bullying” after imposing a 34% tariff on Friday on all US goods, the exact same rate Trump slapped China with in his latest round of new import taxes.

Several other countries said they were sending trade officials to Washington to try to talk through the crisis, which has cast uncertainty over the global economic outlook, hammered markets and left U.S. allies wondering about the value of their ties with the world's largest economy.

European Union trade ministers were closeted Monday in Luxembourg to weigh possible steps that could include taxes on U.S. tech companies like Google, Apple and Amazon. The European Union’s executive commission - which handles trade issues for the 27-country bloc - is set to impose tariffs on Jeans, whiskey and motorcycles on Wednesday in response to Trumps increase in steel and aluminum tariffs.

But it hasn't decided a response yet to Trump's “reciprocal” tariff of 20% on European goods announced Wednesday and a 25% tariff imposed on autos from everywhere. French officials have raised imposing tariffs on services like internet commerce or financial services, where the U.S. sells more than it buys from Europe and is in theory more vulnerable than in goods trade.

Germany’s economy minister, Robert Habeck, was defiant as he arrived, saying the premise of the wide-ranging tariffs was “nonsense” and that attempts by individual countries to win exemptions haven’t worked in the past.

It's important for the EU to stick together, he said. That “means being clear that we are in a strong position — America is in a position of weakness.”

So far the European approach has been to selectively target politically sensitive goods rather than impose sweeping retaliation since like most economists officials they view tariff wars as a lose-lose game.

China, which hit back Friday at Washington with 34% tariffs on U.S. products and other retaliatory moves, sharply accused the U.S. of failing to play fair. “Putting ‘America First’ over international rules is a typical act of unilateralism, protectionism and economic bullying,” Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lin Jian told reporters.

The ruling Communist Party struck a note of confidence even as markets in Hong Kong and Shanghai crumpled. “The sky won't fall,” declared The People’s Daily, the party's official mouthpiece. “Faced with the indiscriminate punches of U.S. taxes, we know what we are doing and we have tools at our disposal.”

China’s Commerce Ministry said officials met with representatives of 20 American businesses including Tesla and GE Healthcare over the weekend and urged them to take “concrete actions” to address the tariffs issue.

During the meeting, Ling Ji, a vice minister of commerce, promised that China will remain open to foreign investment, according to the readout by the ministry.

South Korea’s Trade Ministry said its top negotiator, Inkyo Cheong, will visit Washington this week to express Seoul’s concerns over the 25% tariffs on Korean goods and discuss ways to mitigate the damage to South Korean businesses, which include major automakers and steel makers. Asian countries are among the most exposed to Trump's tariffs ranging from a baseline 10% to 50% since their export-oriented economies send a lot of goods to the U.S.

Pakistan also planned to send a delegation to Washington this month to try negotiate over the 29% tariffs on its exports to the U.S., officials said. The prime minister ordered Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb to assess the tariff's potential impact on Pakistan's fragile economy and draw up recommendations.

The U.S. imports around $5 billion worth of textiles and other products each year from Pakistan, which heavily relies on loans from the International Monetary Fund and other lenders.

In Southeast Asia, Malaysia’s Trade Minister Zafrul Abdul Aziz said his country will seek to forge a united response from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to Trump's sweeping tariffs.

As chair of the 10-nation body this year, Malaysia will lead a meeting Thursday in its capital Kuala Lumpur to discuss broader implications of the trade war on regional trade and investment, Zafrul told reporters.

“We are looking at the investment flows, macroeconomic stability and ASEAN's coordinated response to this tariff issue,” Zafrul said.

He said that he had met with the U.S. ambassador to Malaysia to try to clarify how the U.S. came up with its 24% tariff.

Indonesia, one of the region's biggest economies, said it would work with businesses to increase its imports of U.S. wheat, cotton, oil and gas to help reduce its trade surplus, which was $18 billion in 2024.

Coordinating Economic Affairs Minister Airlangga Hartarto told a news conference that Indonesia will not retaliate against the new 32% tariff on Indonesian exports, but would use diplomacy to seek mutually beneficial solutions.

Some Southeast Asian neighbors, including Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar, face tariffs of over 40%, giving Indonesia a slight advantage, he noted.

“For Indonesia, it is also another opportunity as its market is huge in America,” Hartoto said. He said Indonesia would buy U.S.-made components for several national strategic projects, including refineries.

Associated Press journalists from around the world contributed to this report.

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