La Commissione dell’UE propone il 25% di contro-tariffoni su alcune importazioni statunitensi, mostra il documento
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/eu-commission-proposes-25-counter-tariffs-some-us-imports-document-shows-2025-04-07/
di Tsavkko
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It was time for China and the EU to sit down and negotiate reducing or eliminating tariffs between themselves, for Brazil to raise its hand to play along and bring other countries together. Isolate the US and teach them a lesson.
>The goods are wide-ranging and include diamonds, dental floss, sausages, nuts and soybeans.
Sausages?!?
Who in Europe is even importing sausages from the US?!
It will take some time, it’s always slow when it’s about to propose a serious answer.
I think Europe also has others leverages than just tariffs like regulating/taxing social medias or even blocking american banks from proposing products – “nuke” weapon against tariffs –
All that big talk and…nothing
i hope they do this. America has been fucking around It’s time they found out. If we show weakness they will just take more advantage of Us.
Stop being spineless shitbags and tariff the tech companies.
I was fearing for a weak response, but I did not in my wildest dreams think it would be this weak. Trump will wipe the floor with Europe.
December 😀
The response was so weak, that the US markets are actually going green today when it was expected to crash. Green after they threatened to impose even more tariffs.
Only some?
Wait thats it? tariffs on some goods mid-year and in december? And we backed off the tariff of bourbon because he threatened with 200%? That just shows him that he can threaten us back on any product we put tariffs on and we will back down immediately…
Stronger Europe! 🇪🇺💪
*BRUSSELS, April 7 (Reuters) – The European Commission proposed counter-tariffs of 25% on a range of U.S. goods on Monday in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminium, a document seen by Reuters showed.*
This is an answer to the tarrifs done around a month ago, not the ones done on the second of April.
[https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/12/economy/trump-steel-aluminum-tariffs-hnk-intl/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/12/economy/trump-steel-aluminum-tariffs-hnk-intl/index.html)
These ones.
I am writing this because the commentors in this thread aren’t reading the first paragraph of the article.
Some?
stench of weakness
Does Europe really think they can make a deal with Trump?
Vietnam offered zero tariffs, and Trump says it’s not enough.
Trump doesn’t want free trade.
Pathetic!
Make it 24% to be generous.
For the love of God, tax Big Tech. It’s that simple. I’m absolutely happy to bare the brunt of whatever happens, they’ve been allowed to create such havoc with our democracies and their shitty predatory monopolising practices. Fuck them.
Patience, people! This is a game of patience; you put your strongest cards on the table and you lose.
I didn’t expect the EU to suddenly become an independent player. But damn, you don’t even want to be one, you have no ambition.
Suddenly you understand why Orban still is in charge in Hungary when this is Europes reaction to Trumps tariffs.
Any tariff on most of the industrial production would be mostly symbolic. The point is, Europeans have no desire for american products. They are unsafe, of a lower quality, are harmful to health, are not tailored to the needs of european consumers and european cities.
Half the european imports are fossil fuels and other hydrocarbons. You don’t want to put a tariff on that.
Likewise, there are no space in the european market for US agricultural products. Even fast food chains source in european food.
So the counterpunch would have to come from :
– services : dangerous game. You import them because you need them. You had better be absolutely sure about what you can replace and whatnot. Could deserve few weeks of further investigations. Visa, Mastercard, will eventually be sidelined but you can’t organize this in a heartbeat. Same for microsoft or google.
– anti-coercition instrument : I would be of the opinion that we have not reached the threshold yet. It would need to be for instance an appeal to boycott a certain country, or measures to force europeans companies to keep their money in the US (which would possibly trigger a financial armageddon).
– Weaning of american military equipment : the EU already had set aims to decrease the share of equipment made outside the EU to 35% of its total procurement. Of course now there never has been so great an incentive in 80 years to follow on this commitment. This will bleed the US military complex dry.
– the CBAM will, all in all, all but disqualify the “drill baby drill” american manufacturing. What matters is to hold steady on this vital piece of legislation. If it falls – be it because of the far right push inside the EU or external pressure -, all the discourse about a fair trade system and the green transition would completely collapse.
You know what’s most fun to tariff? Products made by the companies that donated to Trump’s PAC. Just sayin’ https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/donald-trump/industries?id=N00023864&src=t
USA runs on a blackmail economy, they just use their military to bully other countries, it gives their international lawyers aka politicians a little more leverage