Posted on 05/06/2018 4:56:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai
As Europe’s biggest exporter to the United States and with more than 1 million German jobs at stake, Germany is desperate to avoid a European Union trade war with the United States.
In the run-up to a June 1 deadline for U.S. President Donald Trump to impose steel and aluminum tariffs on the EU, Berlin is urging its European partners to show some flexibility and pursue a broad trade deal that benefits both sides.
But that puts Germany at odds with European peers such as France. Paris, the other half of the motor driving European integration, resents Germany’s big trade surplus and wants a tougher EU stance against the U.S. tariffs.
“There is a great danger of slipping into a trade war that way,” Holger Bingmann, president of Germany’s BGA foreign trade association, told Reuters.
Mindful of data from the German-American Chambers of Industry and Commerce that shows more than 1 million German jobs are directly or indirectly dependent on exports to the United States, he cautioned against EU threats of counter tariffs. “That way, the Europeans would only embrace the logic of protectionists,” he said.
The European Commission has said the EU will set duties on €2.8 billion ($3.36 billion) of U.S. exports, including peanut butter and denim jeans, if its metals exports to the United States, worth €6.4 billion, are subject to tariffs.
Berlin is pushing the idea of an agreement to lower tariffs across a broad spectrum of products, especially in manufacturing. …
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Try reading the Basic Law, like I recommended.
And no, you cannot argue with the Polizei.
Exactly...Germany and the EU have lots of biz interests with Iran.
You haven’t the slightest clue as to whom my ilk or I might be. That’s probably because you’ve said the same silly stuff to so many people, El Gato.
I apologize. You are either a Free Trader or a Patriot, but you can’t be both. Which are you?
“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” - Samuel Johnson, 1775
-—Free Traitor™——
Hoax alert!! Liar, liar, fake news like liar
The poster is a flat out liar perpetrating a hoax to seem to be more important than he actually is.
A search of Registered Trademarks on the official US Government Trade mark registry indicates there is no such trademark now or ever has been.
Central-va perpetuates the hoax every single day.
I am not defined by you, silly boy.
Germany and Italy are in competition to be the EU’s top trading partner with Iran, so I suspect you’re right.
What motivates a patriot will always be a mystery to the traitor.
You define yourself by your actions and words.
You are clinging to your last refuge
You are refuse.
As do you. Over and over and over again.
Of course, Germany doesn’t have much of a border these days, either.
incorrect
Proof by assertion is a logical fallacy.
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