Posted on 03/10/2018 7:28:47 AM PST by Olog-hai
The EU is set to hit a wide range of American products — ranging from yachts to peanut butter — with duties of 25 percent to retaliate against President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum.
The products targeted, as shown in a list obtained by Politico, are chosen so as not to harm EU industries, which do not need these imports.
Some targets clearly gun for politically sensitive Republican-run states. […]
In agriculture, the EU will go after kidney beans, bourbon whiskey, rice, cranberries, orange juice, peanut butter, tobacco and cheroots. […]
In the industrial sector, the EU is going after a broad range of tubes, pipes and rolled steels, as well as appliances such as grills, sinks, ventilators and ladders. The list also includes iron and steel containers for compressed and liquefied gas. …
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.eu ...
So can everyone here NOW stop saying in some WAY SHAPE OR FORM Western Europe is still our ally?!?!?!?!
Call them what they are now. In 2018.
At best, friends of convenience. At worst, enemies.
The EU is all about protecting it’s stuff and screw the World ,LOL
Still wondering if the EU had its mitts in the dirty dossier...
One can only imagine the damage this will do to the cheroot industry...
The globalists of Europe have exposed themselves again intent on destroying the American middle class.
Anti-American is what they are
“So can everyone here NOW stop saying in some WAY SHAPE OR FORM Western Europe is still our ally?!?!?!?!
Call them what they are now. In 2018.”
Europe has been a compilation of ingrates ever since we, at a terrible cost in both human and financial treasure, liberated their sorry a$$es from the Nazis. WE DON’T NEED THEM, but they need us, or more correctly, they need our continued “financial and military support!” SCREW THEM! They seem to think we are in an unenviable position of having to defend them, we aren’t any longer. Cut off our financial assistance and reduce our military footprint there now! Making America Great Again includes getting out of the financial traces of “looking after Europe!” We, thanks to a long list of both RAT and RINO Presidents, have made ourselves the “piggybank” for Europe and the rest of the World for that matter. We have pushed ourselves to the brink of our own bankruptcy, spending borrowed money on these ungrateful a$$holes. I just hope Trump takes the sorely needed actions with our “allies” as well as the UN.
What these politicians fail to understand is that imposing higher taxes on imported goods raises the price to those who still buy those products. The demand for booze, for example, is fairly inelastic, which means large changes in price don’t affect the amount sold very much (e.g., heart operation: most people don’t look for the cheapest heart surgeon). I understand Trump’s reason for the tariffs: to bolster a sagging manufacturing sector and to offset gov’t subsidies by foreign nations. He’s doing it primarily on production inputs (steel and aluminum used to produce final goods and services). The EU is doing it on final goods and services, which will have a larger effect on consumers in their own countries than ours will have on consumers.
Bravo!
Too many here talk about them falling to islam and how catastrophic that would be.
True, but our money and military aid has no impact on that.
It’s an internal issue and they will fall from within.
Let’ stop wasting our money and losing our men for them.
OK.
They can have their Chinese junk and anti-freeze laced junk food instead.
Folks in those countries will have to pay more for quality items.
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Hey that was good. :)
You one of them ‘conomics majors?
I never thought of the difference between production goods and product goods.
Me and 99.9 percent of Americans :)
It makes sense.
War with Germany is on the horizon. I cheer on the mussie scum in Europe.
Slap Airbus planes with a tariff equal to the amount that each plane is subsidized by the EU. Airbus is a high-profile target, and the EU needs to stop the subsidies.
But, since when is it okay for foreign governments to exercise protectionist policies for their products while it’s not okay for the U.S. to do the same against their foreign imports? I guess to the EU and countries elsewhere, it’s only fair when they stick-it to the U.S.
The facade that Germany has fundamentally changed since WWII is just that for the most part. A facade.
Hatred of Jews and a feeling of superiority to us and to other European countries has not changed.
The only thing that may have changed greatly is that, sadistic monsters or not, the nazi soldiers were tough fighters, as were the average infantry soldiers.
My uncle went up against them at the bulge and said they were tough as nails.
I dont see that being the case now. But you never know.
“Too many here talk about them falling to islam and how catastrophic that would be. It’s an internal issue and they will fall from within.
Let’s stop wasting our money and losing our men for them.”
Exactly! Evidently, they didn’t learn much from the Nazis. And now lead by Germany ( and her Commie leader ), Europe, with a couple of notable exceptions, seems willing to follow that screwed up bunch of closet Nazis into their next conflagration.
Let them figure it out on their own dime, like evidently Italy has just done, that they’ve sewed the seeds of their own destruction by allowing the Muzzies to invade their countries.
If Germany wants to jack us around, I’d be in favor of putting tariffs on all their expensive “Nazi Thunderbirds!” Make Mercedes, BMWs, Audis, Porsches really expensive here. They are not strategic products, but they are a major source of income for the Germans. And for those models that are “assembled” here, tax the high-dollar mechanical components that they build in Germany and ship here.
I know, the mind boggles. I suspect the broader tobacco tariff will be unpopular on the EU "street", though. In France, for sure.
Yesterday someone broke the tariffs down as priced on a new vehicle. The actual increase was about $250 on a vehicle costing $32,000+. Peanuts really.
Putting a 25% tariff on finished goods would be huge.
Have the jackasses at the EU gone outhouse rat crazy?
Sounds good to me!
I’m a Corvette/Camaro/Challenger/Mustang guy anyway. Got my 2015 Challenger out front and love it.
Never liked Krout cars to begin with.
And thanks for letting me know Porsches and Audis were German.
I didn’t know.
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