Ideally, coordinate the countermeasures with other major players in Asia and the Americas for maximum effect.
Hit them where it hurts and hit them hard.
HodlerRanger on
Tax Tesla cars with a 100% tariff, all countries at the same time. See how Trump reverts everything and cancel this tariff war by next week.
Any-Original-6113 on
Trump is testing the EU’s reaction.
I believe that if the EU imposes sanctions equal in the amount of losses, then Trump simply raises the stakes in this game.
The EU’s reaction should be so harsh that the US simply would not want to play this game any further.
rTpure on
The entire world just needs to move on as if America doesn’t exist
There’s no point trying to negotiate or reason with trump
Sea_Load_1099 on
The way I see it, the rest of the world has two options:
Option a is bow down to US. They will want economic and geopolitical “favours”. From something like debt restructuring (others might call it bankruptcy) where some countries like Japan agree to convert US debt bonds to 100 years untradable debt. It is essentially debt forgiveness. Then you have EU nations, and they will be told to trade Greenland to US, restart ruzz gas with US as a middle man, transfer car production chain from Germany to US in full etc.
Option b the whole world does not take that shit and retaliate. Yes, it will hurt everyone, but the alternative is worse IMO. You can’t agree to economic extortion like that, there will be no end to US demands under these fascist magas.
shaving_minion on
anyone has any intelligent guesses on how much this would affect laymen. e.g. consumer electronics, software etc.
Round_Mastodon8660 on
Plans ? Is this new information for you?
lvl_60 on
This is going to hurt americans harder i think. Now…If the rest of the world banded together and avoid trade with the US…
Bloody_Ozran on
Plans? How fucking foolish are we in the EU? He kept saying this is coming, there should have been a plan already for when it happens.
We are planning a response to Russian troops in Belgium. That’s about the same stupid answer. Answer should have been prepared and come right away. It should be fuck the US, we look at Asia now as our strongest partner for trade, besides within EU.
cdttedgreqdh on
How is there no immediate response this was to be expected. Ursula get your ass up.
karupta on
Plans? They don’t have it ready? It’s not like it came out of the blue
Good-Ad-9156 on
If Asia (minus Taiwan) and the EU coordinate by cancelling all Intellectual property protections of Apple, Broadcom, Oracle, Tesla, Microsoft, Google, Meta—Trump will either fold or mysteriously die in less than a day.
Copyright and patent protections are the big guns of this trade war. The US has no comparable retaliation beyond revoking military support and risking Russia throwing a nuke into Europe.
Gambit723 on
Ursula looked so worried and serious. Never really seen that before from her.
No_Mission5618 on
This is all the EU is good for, “plans” and “talks”, nothing actually happens in the end though.
Bob_Spud on
They may not happen. The US Senate has just pulled the plug on Canadian tariffs. Not all republicans like Trump.
Democrats are going to do the same with his liberty tariffs.
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And so it begins…
Edit
[https://www.reuters.com/markets/global-markets-wrapup-1pix-2025-04-02/](https://www.reuters.com/markets/global-markets-wrapup-1pix-2025-04-02/)
[https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/dollar-slides-traders-rush-into-safe-havens-after-us-tariffs-2025-04-03/](https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/dollar-slides-traders-rush-into-safe-havens-after-us-tariffs-2025-04-03/)
Ideally, coordinate the countermeasures with other major players in Asia and the Americas for maximum effect.
Hit them where it hurts and hit them hard.
Tax Tesla cars with a 100% tariff, all countries at the same time. See how Trump reverts everything and cancel this tariff war by next week.
Trump is testing the EU’s reaction.
I believe that if the EU imposes sanctions equal in the amount of losses, then Trump simply raises the stakes in this game.
The EU’s reaction should be so harsh that the US simply would not want to play this game any further.
The entire world just needs to move on as if America doesn’t exist
There’s no point trying to negotiate or reason with trump
The way I see it, the rest of the world has two options:
Option a is bow down to US. They will want economic and geopolitical “favours”. From something like debt restructuring (others might call it bankruptcy) where some countries like Japan agree to convert US debt bonds to 100 years untradable debt. It is essentially debt forgiveness. Then you have EU nations, and they will be told to trade Greenland to US, restart ruzz gas with US as a middle man, transfer car production chain from Germany to US in full etc.
Option b the whole world does not take that shit and retaliate. Yes, it will hurt everyone, but the alternative is worse IMO. You can’t agree to economic extortion like that, there will be no end to US demands under these fascist magas.
anyone has any intelligent guesses on how much this would affect laymen. e.g. consumer electronics, software etc.
Plans ? Is this new information for you?
This is going to hurt americans harder i think. Now…If the rest of the world banded together and avoid trade with the US…
Plans? How fucking foolish are we in the EU? He kept saying this is coming, there should have been a plan already for when it happens.
We are planning a response to Russian troops in Belgium. That’s about the same stupid answer. Answer should have been prepared and come right away. It should be fuck the US, we look at Asia now as our strongest partner for trade, besides within EU.
How is there no immediate response this was to be expected. Ursula get your ass up.
Plans? They don’t have it ready? It’s not like it came out of the blue
If Asia (minus Taiwan) and the EU coordinate by cancelling all Intellectual property protections of Apple, Broadcom, Oracle, Tesla, Microsoft, Google, Meta—Trump will either fold or mysteriously die in less than a day.
Copyright and patent protections are the big guns of this trade war. The US has no comparable retaliation beyond revoking military support and risking Russia throwing a nuke into Europe.
Ursula looked so worried and serious. Never really seen that before from her.
This is all the EU is good for, “plans” and “talks”, nothing actually happens in the end though.
They may not happen. The US Senate has just pulled the plug on Canadian tariffs. Not all republicans like Trump.
Democrats are going to do the same with his liberty tariffs.