La Casa Bianca chiama discriminatorio fiscale a valore aggiunto dell’UE
https://www.ft.com/content/bcc61d3b-bdc6-4f19-be1b-944e0be213c1#post-58173067-3d96-49d5-85ac-95a689ab31ac
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La Casa Bianca chiama discriminatorio fiscale a valore aggiunto dell’UE
https://www.ft.com/content/bcc61d3b-bdc6-4f19-be1b-944e0be213c1#post-58173067-3d96-49d5-85ac-95a689ab31ac
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White House officials singled out the EU’s value added tax as an example of a discriminatory and unfair trade practice, arguing it helped Germany sell more cars to the US than the US could sell to the country.
“A poster child is the EU’s value added tax, which almost triples the EU’s tariff rate on American exports, even as it heavily subsidises the EU’s exports,” said Peter Navarro, Trump’s senior counsellor for manufacturing and trade.
“No wonder Germany sells eight times as many cars to us as we do to them. President Trump is no longer going to tolerate that.”
A White House official also singled out Japan and India. “Japan has relatively low tariffs, but high structural barriers. Whereas India … has some of the highest tariffs in the world,” the official said.
1) I thought they didn’t believe in discrimination since it’s just woke nonsense.
2) Maybe the Germans sell more cars in America than vice versa because they’ve got Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Porsche and VW? Yeah… Who knows, right?
The useful idiot (a.k.a Trump) never stops to shoot is own foot.
I vouch BMWs are good cars, did someone mention Chevrolet?
Sounds like a U problem and not an EU problem. The safe word is “tariffs”. Have a nice day.
Maybe, just maybe, Germany or rather one more popular brand sells more cars in the US than the US sells to the whole of Europe because the cars are shit. I can’t name a single american car that sells or sold really well other than some niche sports/muscle cars like the Mustang, Corvette and Camaro. Every single time they have tried to enter the European market they got crushed.
Words have no meaning anymore. So what’s the point of using them.
The US is becoming like Russia. Trump knows it isn’t true. Everyone in the room knows it isn’t true. Everyone who hears about it knows it isn’t true. But everyone is supposed to act as if it is. It’s a power thing straight from Putin’s playbook.
They don’t know what VAT is do they!
Mustn’t have been covered in Navarro’s prison course on “suckin’ up to da big guy”.
Am I stupid? How is the VAT discriminatory against individual manufacturers? Do they even know what it is?
He barely started his term and it feels already so tiring.
And we have to put with this felon for 4 more years.
Thank you Americans for ignoring the whole planet.
remember the whole free trade thing where high quality products will sell more ?
you know,america,maybe make good cars and stop bailing that failing industry out for decades
He wants DEI for american products. Sell them without VAT.
This woke mofo using woke words as if they meant anything! /s
Man is a moron
Another round of BS coming from the White House. And by the way those “structural barriers” they complain about in Japan is that american cars are simply not made to be driven on japanese streets. But of course the problem is not the american car… but the japanese way of building their urban areas.
I wouldn’t be surprised that all that huffing and puffing about european VAT comes from uninformed/greedy american managers who only know the US sales tax and are outraged if “they” have to pay the VAT at one stage.
Pot calling the kettle black
Funny seeing as Republicans have wanted for years to eliminate or dramatically lower federal taxes in favor of a national sales tax.
It definitely affects lower income citizens more, especially in the US where the tax rate for the lower brackets are sub 15% and most pay an effect tax rate much less
Kick all US military bases out of Europe and confiscate assets from American companies and individuals.
Thanks Americans
They have no idea what VAT is or what it does, do they?
Discriminatory? But didn’t you proclaim the end of DEI? 😂
Trump can go fuck himself. And Musk IN THE FACE while he’s at it.
It’s high time that we EU citizens follow in Canadas footsteps and reduce what we buy from the US as much as possible.
I’m currently going through all services I pay for monthly, and by the looks of it, once I’m done it will be at least a couple hundred dollars less per month that I subsidize Trumps hamburgers with.
““No wonder Germany sells eight times as many cars to us as we do to them.” So instead of wondering what American auto manufacturers could do to make their vehicles more appealing to Germans, or recognizing that there are five times as many autos in the US as in Germany, trump puts the blame on VAT. This augurs well for the US auto industry. /s
How the hell is a method of collecting taxes discriminatory? On researching this if anything the US should fix their own taxation and not blame Europeans. See: [https://taxfoundation.org/blog/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-eu-vat-discriminatory/](https://taxfoundation.org/blog/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-eu-vat-discriminatory/)
Quote:
“While it may seem like a compelling political argument to justify across-the-board tariffs on the EU, it instead reflects a complete misunderstanding of what a VAT is and how it works. Worse, it misplaces the blame for a lack of US competitiveness on the European VAT instead of reevaluating the flaws of both the US federal and state tax systems.”
Are those motherfuckers really trying to give us a lesson in economy despite the fact the president is a cunt who bankrupted businesses SEVERAL TIMES ?
You know what else is discriminatory? The White House.
Make it a DEI case. Wait…
Isn’t a tariff a discriminatory tax???
:))) is this a south american country these days?! :)) “dear leader” talking with the masses on tv daily is a thing there :))
This guy is an idiot. VAT is applied equally to merchandise produced locally and imported. The USA is the odd one here, almost every other country in the world has VAT.
The EU has a tariff on US imports of 10% (similar to Japan). The US has a tariff on vehicles made in the EU of 2.5%, but in order to import a vehicle made outside the US, in the US, one must wait 25 years.
Sales report for the year 2024:
For the US: [https://www.carpro.com/blog/full-year-auto-sales-report-for-2024](https://www.carpro.com/blog/full-year-auto-sales-report-for-2024)
Total cars sold: 15269521
European brands: 10. Jeep 587725 | 13. Wolkswagen 379178 | 14. BMW 371346 | 16. Mercedes Benz 324528 | 17. Audi 196576 | 22. Volvo 125243 | 25. Land Rover 106650 | 27. Porsche 76167 | 30. Mini 26299 | 31. Jaguar 13210 | 32. Alfa Romeo 8865 | 33. Maserati 6320 | 34. Bentley 3840 | 35. Lamborghini 3826 | 36. RR 1765 | 37. Fiat 1528 | 38. McLaren 1270 | TOTAL: 2234336 ~14.6%
Asian brands: 1. Toyota 1986954 | 4. Honda 1291490 | 5. Nissan 865938 | 6. Hyundai 836802 | 7. Kia 782451 | 8. Subaru 667725 | 12. Mazda 424382 | 15. Lexus 345669 | 21. Acura 132367 | 24. Mitsubishi 109843 | 28. Genesis 75003 | 29. Infiniti 58070 | TOTAL: 7576694 ~ 49.6%
American brands: 2. Ford 1960338 | 3. Chevrolet 1730075 | 9. GMC 614177 | 11. RAM 439039 | 18. Buik 183421 | 19. Cadillac 160204 | 20. Dodge 141730 | 23. Chrysler 124684 | 26. Lincoln 104823 | TOTAL: 5458491 ~ 35.7%
For the 1st time, Ford was pushed in the 2nd along with their F150, who isn’t the best selling vehicle in the US anymore. Worth noting that Honda’s creeping in quick. Also, if a vehicle is being assembled anywhere else in the World, in order to be imported in the US, one must wait 25 years.
For the EU: [https://www.best-selling-cars.com/europe/2024-full-year-europe-best-selling-car-manufacturers-and-brands/](https://www.best-selling-cars.com/europe/2024-full-year-europe-best-selling-car-manufacturers-and-brands/)
Total cars sold: 12963614
European Brands: 1. VW Group: 3407242 | 2. Stellantis (-Chrysler) 1953269 | 3. Renault Group 1282453 | 6. BMW Group 923202 | 7. Mercedes Benz 696907 | 9. Volvo 369689 | 15. Jaguar-LandRover 150657 | TOTAL: 8783419 ~68%
Asian Brands: 4. Hyundai Group: 1063517 | 5. Toyota Group 1006073 | 11. Nissan 307276 | 12. SAIC 244595 | 13. Suzuki 203132 | 14. Mazda 172347 | 16. Honda 74682 | 17. Mitsubishi 60873 | TOTAL: 3071622 ~23%
American Brands: 8. Ford 426307 | 10. Tesla 327034 | Chrysler: 16325 | TOTAL: 2326611 ~ 6%
[https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/03/heres-the-real-reason-the-japanese-dont-buy-american-cars/](https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/03/heres-the-real-reason-the-japanese-dont-buy-american-cars/)
[https://www.businessinsider.com/china-auto-sales-automakers-ford-gm-making-losing-market-share-2023-4](https://www.businessinsider.com/china-auto-sales-automakers-ford-gm-making-losing-market-share-2023-4)
[https://catalyst.independent.org/2024/12/02/why-the-world-buys-chinese-and-other-foreign-cars/](https://catalyst.independent.org/2024/12/02/why-the-world-buys-chinese-and-other-foreign-cars/)
Mercedes for instance since mid 90s is building cars exclusively in an ginormous plant in the US and >60% of the vehicles made there, are being exported WW. And then you have Tesla where ~44% of their vehicles are made in a factory, in CN…
LOL. This exceptionally stupid man is running a country.
I would sincerely like to know what is Trump’s area of expertise because he seems not to understand a lot of things, some of them very basic
They have VAT too – it’s just not included in the price.
They pay it at checkout and varies by state.
My god I’m so sick of Trump already but this is just going to go on and on until the day I die, won’t it?
Et alors?