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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 07:11 AM Jun 2018

The EU just hit back at Trump with its own tariffs on American goods



The European Union has announced that as of Friday, it will impose tariffs on $3.2 billion worth of American goods including bourbon, peanut butter, and Harley-Davidson motorcycles. The move is in response to President Donald Trump’s decision to impose harsh import taxes targeting the EU earlier this month.

“We did not want to be in this position,” EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström said in a statement Wednesday. “However, the unilateral and unjustified decision of the U.S. to impose steel and aluminum tariffs on the EU means that we are left with no other choice.”

The EU is strategically choosing products that will hit Republicans hard. According to lists submitted to the World Trade Organization, the bloc of 28 European countries plans to enact a 25 percent tax on American products made in vulnerable Republican-heavy states, such as orange juice from Florida. The state, which had majority support for Trump in the 2016 election, could be key for Republicans to win over in this year’s midterm election.


[link:https://www.vox.com/2018/6/20/17485374/european-union-donald-trump-tarrifs-import-taxes|

No one wins in a trade war - but the people who can least afford it always get hit the worst.
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The EU just hit back at Trump with its own tariffs on American goods (Original Post) Soph0571 Jun 2018 OP
republicans provoke international PISS attack on USA prosperity Achilleaze Jun 2018 #1

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. republicans provoke international PISS attack on USA prosperity
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 07:19 AM
Jun 2018

This is what happens when the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief pisses on all of America's friends, and treats them with profound disrespect, while praising those nations actively engaged in ACTS OF WAR against the USA. And the republican party is letting it happen to America, without so much as a whimper.

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