> Oddly enough the EU imposed counter Tariffs on some weird stuff like Alcohol and Motorcycles...
Red state tariffs.
NB the US tariffs apply to EU steel and steel products, not just Chinese ones, which is why this whole thing is happening.
Red state tariffs.
NB the US tariffs apply to EU steel and steel products, not just Chinese ones, which is why this whole thing is happening.
I guess they tried to find stuff to tax which does not hurt the bigger European populace.
The US biggest export is oil and they certainly want that to be cheap so no tariffs there.
And they are incapable of putting tarifst on online services and digital products.
This would be interesting. And worrying. Laws are easy to write, regardless of applicability.
Sadly its the EU and for every law there are untold numbers of lethargic and mostly incompetent beaurocrats trying to enforce it.
Those work very every slowly, but they are many and usually unstoppable when it comes to collecting money.
I wouldn’t be so disappointed just yet; even the most lethargic beaurocrats in the EU know what’s going on. This ship is slow to steer, but if she gets moving, she’s hard to stop. Just wait!
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/12/tariffs-eu-hit...
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/03/canada-tariff-targe...
How does that help? That will only make red states hate the EU more, not Trump. The EU already had tariffs against red state as retaliation back in his first term and it didn't affect him.
I don't know if you know but MAGA crowd already doesn't like the EU because they see them as ungrateful freeloaders in term of trade deficit and receiving free defense and would very much like to see the US pull out of NATO and leave them to the Russians.
EU targeting them specifically will only prove their point not turn them against Trump.
IMHO, if you wann get to trump target Elon Musk's businesses and the likes of Big Tech who kissed his ring, Meta, etc.
On the other hand some of these elections are won by narrow margins. Most Trump voters didn’t sign up for pain (not personally, they only voted to harm others). Pain may influence their votes in the future or motivate their legislators to contain the executive branch.
If you tariff most tech stuff there is no EU native replacement available.
This would be fun bet, where I'd be willing to take the opposite end of it just cause I'd be curious about the outcome either way. I have no doubt they would turn on Trump if the economy was depressed for a year or more as a result, enough at least to have an impact on the midterms. On the other hand, if Trump turns the economy around significantly in six months using whatever means then yes, the base would be emboldened.
I don't know now how that will work in the era of an authoritarian White House.