Posted on 03/02/2018 1:47:52 PM PST by Trump20162020
Was it at the airport, or out in town?
In town. Brand name American hard liquor 10-12 euros. The bottles are a little smaller than here I think. Way cheaper than even 5 years ago when it would have been 3 x as much.
Interesting that these are the first two products of the United States that come to mind when the politicians want to retaliate.
Clear to me that we have no real heavy manufacturing goods for them to tax.
Blue jeans = Levis=queers
Therefore
no problem
additionally it indicates that the asians that make the steel and smelt the aluminum are owned lock, stock and barrel by EU based money.
The last time I went to buy some
Shirts at a western wear store,
They were ALL made in Bangladesh...
Europeans can buy jeans made in the US? They’re almost impossible to find here.
We need to fly a squadron of bombers over Brussels and drop leaflets that tell Juncker and his gang of Nazis to surrender or else...
“Companies like Wrangler, Lee, Levi, Carhart, and Dickies have all closed their doors on American workers and are now made in many foreign nations.”
And the EU is going to boycott Blue Jeans? This is the level of facts and logic in the response. One of the reasons a trade war is bad news is that it makes people do stupid things.
It won’t hurt the sales of bourbon in the least. Might even improve the quality. As far as jeans go, who makes them in the USA anyway?
I think he was just joking. He listed what Europe considers iconic American things. Might as well have added cowboy hats to the list.
Becks is made in St. Louis and it sucks. St Pauli Girl and Becks were the same beer and SPG is still made in Bremen and in most cases it’s cheaper.
Thanks. I recall we bought it in Germany. I like it. I did drink Heineken years ago . I recall it was 15 cents a bottle at the O club.
Good,
Quit selling Buffalo Trace in foreign countries so we can get some here.
Company can sell every bottle they make in Asia for 5 times what they can sell it here for.
Bourbon? Has Kentucky joined the EU?
>>Also, which enemy would supply US with much needed steele/aluminum, should we go to war?<<
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This is SO FUNDAMENTAL. I don’t think we could even count on Europe.
They stlll are, but only as a high-end "premium denim" item.
Denim jean production costs:
China: $8.00
Mexico: $10.00
Los Angeles: $50.00
So "Made in the USA" (never "Made by Americans", as that promise can't be kept at all) premium denim jeans run about $200 at retail, which limits the market just a little bit. :) Any EU tariff on them would be meaningless, since they are a low-volume speciality item,
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