>EU Tells Trump to Brace for Retaliation Over Metal Tariffs
EU Raises Stakes for Trump by Aiming Levies at GOP Heartland.
>The European Union is preparing punitive tariffs on iconic U.S. brands produced in key Republican constituencies, raising political pressure on President Donald Trump to ditch his plan for taxing steel imports.
>Targeting 2.8 billion euros ($3.5 billion) of American goods, the EU aims to apply a 25 percent tit-for-tat levy on a range of consumer, agricultural and steel products imported from the U.S. if Trump follows through on his tariff threat, according to a list drawn up by the European Commission and obtained by Bloomberg News. The list of targeted U.S. goods -- including motorcycles, jeans and bourbon whiskey -- sends a political message to Washington about the potential domestic economic costs of making good on the president’s threat.
>Paul Ryan, Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, comes from the same state -- Wisconsin -- where motorbike maker Harley-Davidson Inc. is based. Earlier this week, Ryan said he was “extremely worried about the consequences of a trade war” and urged Trump to drop his tariff proposal.
You dun goofed cowboys.
Don't fuck with your masters.
Don't forget you're just an off-shoot. We are the seat of Western Civilization. You're going to get raped hard if you fuck with us.
Fucking idiots. Now well pay even more for american goods.
Jackson Martinez
amerikikes BTFO
Isaac Reed
>Now well pay even more for american goods. Like what, LOL? what do you buy that is American?
all they make sucks
Zachary Torres
>>Targeting 2.8 billion euros ($3.5 billion) of American goods Lulz. How ever will we survive.
Michael Diaz
Are you retarded? What's not produced here that's exclusively produced in America, other than degeneracy?
Cooper Jackson
BRING IT ON!
Wyatt Jones
>red states turn blue it's actualy for your own good, dufus
Bentley King
Why would red states turning blue be good for me, specifically?
Leo Nelson
They are talking out their ass. Eu steel is very expensive already compared to domestic. They have nothing except on specialty metals and even then Sandvik etc have manufacturing plants in the usa.
Asher Phillips
The EU is fucking retarded. We're incredibly expensive and our quality of goods is also dropping due to policies reducing standards. America will just go deal with someone else.
Isaiah Baker
wrong, fatty
Eli Flores
>America can always deal with someone else like China! >What do you mean the EU can as well? The EU has to exclusively buy 100% domestic products you retard
Sebastian Lopez
>The list of targeted U.S. goods -- including motorcycles, jeans and bourbon whiskey Will all become more expensive, hence dearer under a tariff regime. No one is buying a Harley in Europe because its a good value. It's a status symbol. Same with the whiskey, and even the Levis. Euros don't seem to understand this tariff game, surprisingly.
Jordan Thomas
Why was the EU created initially?
Juan Kelly
>Levi's will become units of currency in foreign lands again >so will cheap bourbon Can't wait desu
Joseph Torres
Trump doesn't give a fuck. Fear is exactly what he wants. There won't be any change unless the economy takes serious damage from his actions. I still believe it will. Nationalism always fucks with the economy.
Gavin Phillips
Does euro land really think they can win in a trade war? Kek we will put your automakers out of business in the states
Christian White
Maybe yours, Adolph.
Joshua Scott
why not tax mcdonalds??
Christopher Rogers
nah, I think he is bluffing. The last big threats about DACA and guns were all dickwaving
Nolan Brown
America isn't special. Trump's mistakes will hit guys like you first. We'll get hit too, but recover faster.
Levi Wright
That's because the traits that you get high up in the EU don't include anything like competence or self awareness
Leo Morgan
>EU is led by incompetent people because Breitbart told me so kek
Justin Russell
Lol what are you going to do? Suck muslim dick to teach us a lesson?
Angel Gomez
How specifically will Trump's proposed tariff "hit" me?
Ethan Harris
You are both a shame on your countries. Barking like dogs for your EU slavers.
Evan Rogers
>The 2002 United States steel tariff was a tariff that U.S. President George W. Bush placed on imported steel on March 5, 2002 (took effect March 20). >The tariffs were lifted by Bush on December 4, 2003. Research shows that the tariffs adversely affected US GDP and employment.[1] >en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_United_States_steel_tariff We can and we have. Do you have any idea how many people German car makers employ in the US?
Chase Ortiz
Wouldn't be the first time a dumb American politician shot themselves in the foot >200,000 Americans lost their jobs to higher steel prices during 2002. These lost jobs represent approximately $4 billion in lost wages from February to November 2002. tradepartnership.com/pdf_files/2002jobstudy.pdf
Nathaniel Sanchez
>wtf u guys are united why are u not divided you KEKS praise trump maga
protip literal non-country: the EU's interests align with the interests of all the countries of Europe in this specific case
Noah Bell
No silly, that's what their blonde hair blue eyes daughters are for. I wish I could see their faces when they realize their heritage and culture that has been around for thousands of years just got pissed away and their bloodline is now dark skinned retards
William Thompson
They will simply get jobs at American and japense auto dealers buddy
James Wright
>EU tarriffs the shit out of the US >US finally decides to tariff back after decades of this bullshit >HEY HOW DARE YOU VICTIMIZE US LIKE THIS, USA, WE'RE GOING TO RETALIATE EU is kike incarnate
Noah Roberts
Yeah Tusk, we know you and your butbuddy alcoholic Juncker are only where you are due to sheer nepotism, stop pretending to be important, no one likes you guys.
Juan King
>it did not specify how much of the impact was attributable directly to the steel tariffs >employment actually increased by almost 53,000 between March 2002 and December 2002, and that employment in the same industries had fallen by 281,000 from March to December 2001 pray to your moon god mohammed
Joshua James
The EU has the HIGHEST standards. FACT.
Liam Parker
In September 2003, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) examined the economic effects of the Bush 2002 Steel Tariffs. The economy-wide analysis was designed to focus on the impacts that arose from the relative price changes resulting from the imposition of the tariffs, and estimated that the impact of the tariffs on the U.S. welfare ranged between a gain of $65.6 million (0.0006% of GDP) to a loss of $110.0 million (0.0011% of GDP). A majority of steel-consuming businesses reported that neither continuing nor ending the tariffs would change employment, international competitiveness, or capital investment.[7]
According to a 2005 review of existing research, all studies on the tariffs "find that the costs of the Safeguard Measures outweighed their benefits in terms of aggregate GDP and employment as well as having an important redistributive impact."[1]
Steel production rose slightly during the period of the tariff. [8] The protection of the steel industry in the United States may have had unintended consequences and perverse effects. A study from 2003 that was paid for by CITAC, a trade association of businesses that use raw materials, found that around 200,000 jobs were lost as a result.[9][10]
The U.S. International Trade Commission noted that although the CITAC study did estimate the impact of changing steel prices, it did not specify how much of the impact was attributable directly to the steel tariffs. The study reported estimated impact, relying on specific assumptions made to make analysis simpler. The ITC also noted that, within the broad definition of "steel-consuming industries" used in the CITAC study, employment actually increased by almost 53,000 between March 2002 and December 2002, and that employment in the same industries had fallen by 281,000 from March to December 2001, prior to the tariffs.[7]
Kayden Jenkins
Mongroel ass licker, GTFO.
Juan Evans
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Oliver Cruz
Fuck the (((European Union))) real hard, mutts. Come on
Dylan Bell
Tump will give less than 0 fucks if that is even possible. NOBODY in the U.S. relies on European goods. You will find that out the hard way.
Hudson Ramirez
We don't need or want to trade with the eurocucks. I want Monroe doctrine back. Fuck Europe and fuck Asia.
Gavin Long
youtube is segregated per region. i encourage every one to find a proxie in america and look at americas youtube front page
i discovered this quality of youtube years ago when ign banned me from the comments section for pic related (i had made it originally with a different font on the top and the steam logo symbol was kind of pixelated). anyways after posting on ign which i had found had a region segregated layout despite the same url i went to youtube and low and behold its the same for them
america has been talking a lot of shit about every one in news over the years. in europe im not even sure how much of this you would know since even in europe you dont have access to various websites based in europe if your not in that country
Cooper Gray
woops forgot pic
Ryan Young
inflation is still below target, tariff's will normalize fiat displacement. tradewars on
Samuel Evans
American products aren't fucking American made any more. They have a reputation for shit because it was all made by our 'trading partners'
Fuck you guys. I want out.
Lucas Ortiz
Again >employment actually increased by almost 53,000 between March 2002 and December 2002, and that employment in the same industries had fallen by 281,000 from March to December 2001 Here is a pic from that CITAC report. Looks like tariffs slowed down the steady loss of jobs in the steel industry. That doesn't even take into consideration that the tariffs came into being right after 9/11.
Aiden Scott
>MFW contraband jeans becomes a thing again
Ryder Fisher
>China charges 37-46% tariff on foreign steel Oh you lovable scamps >US charges 25% tariff on foreign steel BUY OUR SCRAP!!! BUY OUR SCRAP!!! BUY OUR SCRAP!!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Luis Miller
Nationalism is good for the economy in long term. Globalisaation in short term.
Josiah Kelly
You fools play right into our hands. A globalized economy is bad for a nationalist strategy. Please, just cease all trade with us. We can go back to filtering our money into our own nation instead of subsidizing the world.
Brayden Barnes
If the EU isn't already SCREWING US on our lack of tariffs, then why the fuck would they be scared that we would start imposing them?
Asher Wilson
besides cars, all suropean goods i have are chunky pieces of shit everyday objects with shit quality crumbly plastic with HUGE flash seams.
Everything cars is made in mexico, and has retarded shit like oil pumped through alternator mounts, plastic engine pieces that are more than heat sensitive so they break after 10 years and 80,000 miles, whereas everything in my japan made nissan is still running strong after 35 years and only wear parts like belts, oil, and plugs changed over the course of 250,000 miles.
Christopher Martin
That's kind of the point that Trump made with this play, and the world seems to be responding exactly as he's planned. If the common American is given reason to like the idea of American produced materials being used for American production of goods, and this is further goaded by other nations punishing the US for daring to do this, well... Trump wins.
I'll be interested in seeing how domestic companies respond to consumer peer pressure over this issue. A year from now Wal*mart might see some serious hits to their profits.
Leo Rogers
EU/Leftists can't even into tariffs because they have to virtue signal and only tariff products that are in red states.
Mason Flores
>($3.5 billion) of American goods, 1.5 billion less than the GDP of Altoona, Pennsylvania
Aaron Russell
We don't negotiate with terrorists
Jaxon Butler
>ruff ruff ruff yes massa I suck German dick > guys don't you know that rulership by a tyrannical oligarchy is needed to be united? We'd be shooting the Poles otherwise! Maybe the only mistake the USSR did was not throwing you fucks in gulags.
Aiden Murphy
>I hate having choices! Did you read the article?
Colton Hall
HOW WILL THE AMRINIGGERS EVER RECOVER?
Josiah Harris
nice pic
Carter Allen
Rome fell, causing the end of any sort of advanced western democracy for near a thousand years.
And guess what? There were still white people during that time.
No, if we don't wake up now, there won't be any coming back. Uruguay and Argentina will be as white as you can get.
Liam Bailey
an irrelevant point to make, but that image is originally a US flag and Russian flag, nice photoshop
Jordan Collins
Nobody is really doubting that it helped the steel industry, but it did so at the cost of other industries. >More American workers lost their jobs in 2002 to higher steel prices than the total number employed by the U.S. steel industry itself (187,500 Americans were employed by U.S. steel producers in December 2002). I mean, Trump even wants to tariff Canadian steel and we import more US steel than we export there. Plus America has a general trading surplus with us. It's pretty obvious this wasn't entirely thought through and he just threw it out there to take the heat off of him with the gun control arguments. Wouldn't be surprised if he actually started to listen to all the advisers telling him it's a bad idea once it cools down. But I guess we'll see; you never can quite tell what he's going to do next.
Robert Jackson
holy shit #Rekt how will flaming faggot euros ever recover?
Jaxon Turner
This. The US has a lot less Euro products being used/wanted by Americans, which is going to make it very lopsided, to their negative in Europe.
Chase Gonzalez
> Lets MAGA and exploit or own natural resources
> Waaah waaah here is 98 items that will make you mad. fuck drumpf and fuck wypipo.
Junckers is a nigger.
James Garcia
do you have any idea how many German car factories are in the US already?
If your car makers don't have a factory in the US, they're fucked. Better get building, Mehmet
Eli Cooper
kek good luck burgers. You guys will yield like the last time you tried that shit.
Robert Baker
...only this is not a repeat with the same neocon/globalist leader. There is a reason the world fears an outsider politician like Trump.
Hudson Morales
>He thinks Trump is a afraid of the WTO Lel
Evan Price
>US >-$462 billion
lmao
Blake Butler
look at pic here If you put tariffs, we will just increase our prices to cover the expenses. Meanwhile your people will have to deal with almost double prices(tariff + increase) for a lot of shit, which your economy won't be able to provide.
Luke Rogers
>Euros buying Levi's and Harleys when they make superior jeans and motorcycles 45 fucked up
Dylan Cooper
Fuck them in ass the ass Trump. Bareback raw fuck those EU kikes over.
Kevin Powell
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA OOOH OOOH OOH OOOHOHHHHHH
Connor Diaz
>EU kikes
You should start seeing your own government and news stations before talking about kikes...
Ethan Flores
>It's pretty obvious this wasn't entirely thought through and he just threw it out there to take the heat off of him with the gun control arguments.
>Wouldn't be surprised if he actually started to listen to all the advisers telling him it's a bad idea once it cools down.
Tariffs were a year in the making and based on the recommendations of the Department of Commerce (blanket tariff) and Department of Defense (targeted tariffs, i.e. duties).
Unfortunately, targeted tariffs don't work when the targets dump in other countries, causing those other countries to then flood the US market.
This is exactly the case as is occurring in Canada, South Korea, etc.
Samuel Morris
Bring it on you pinko Euro faggot scum
Ayden Harris
Our military industrial complex and controlled annual inflation allows us to stay perpetually in debt and not face any consequences. We make our own money, the debt our nation owns is to the American people, somehow. The Fed is fucking stupid but I'll be damned if it isn't an effective cycle of giving themselves all the fucking money they want for nothing. Money means absolutely nothing to the American government. That's fucking frightening.
Austin Morgan
>World's largest consumer economy >Pays for all of NATO >Euronigger thinks *he* has the high ground here because we are in debt HahahahahahahaahHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Jaxson Brooks
>ordinary people have to pay double for a lot of stuff >it's ok, because the kikes will have their slave army
RURAL AND SUBURBAN RETARDS
Camden Foster
A state in service to itself knows few practical limitations.
Kayden Smith
lmao
Thomas Jackson
I'm not saying I approve of it but in realpolitik terms what the EU is trying to do is insignificant.
Josiah Morales
>what's produced in America that's not produced here Globalisation certainly is being produced in Europe. Is that even a real flag BTW? WTF do you produce except communists and globalism?
Nicholas Allen
Hah eu cucks think they can do shit.
I wish Trump big sucsess and swift dmise to the eurofag union.
Wyatt Cook
>>ordinary people have to pay double for a lot of stuff >double >The level of delusion that he thinks the CPI will *double* because of a steel tariff hahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Adrian Morales
Hahaha I found your sarcasm well done lol
Alexander Richardson
Problem is EU bureaucrats don't understand the mentality of these deep red states they're trying to target, they think they will capitulate in the same way they expect their EU countries to when pressured. All this will do is embolden them, giving the opposite effect.
Jack Scott
>US raises tariffs >the EU raises tariffs as well Both are in the right, what's the problem here exactly?
Jordan Morales
Now you've proved what you are. Ghastly little ex Soviet Hostel pipsqueaks are all for anything that makes them feel bigger. That's why your countries are so awful to begin with, a never ending cycle of power bumming for whoever you feel the strongest master is, Egor.
Jaxson Moore
The EU - meaning Germany - is trying to keep a sustainable economy based on actual industry and production. Meanwhile your kike overlords are ensuring your children's children will be debt slaves. And when that bubble bursts, it won't be the kikes in charge that will pay the bill. It will be Cletus and Shanequa.
Nathaniel Fisher
TRADE WAR !!!!!!!!!!!
Gavin Cruz
Political trade wars and a ww3 gang bang on eurocucks it is
Brody Myers
>America will just go deal with someone else. This. Perfect timing from President Trump now we have told the EU to fuck off. UK USA trade deal when?
Camden Bennett
God I love Brits, they always tell those little backwater European countries off so succinctly with that acerbic wit
Justin Brooks
>The EU - meaning Germany - is trying to keep a sustainable economy based on actual industry and production *Import millions of new workers because they don't have time to wait for birth rates to increase, which is slowly disentegrating the EU while Britain, Russia, and Norway laugh in the distance
Andrew Scott
Jesus Christ this
Michael Anderson
>UK cucks will pay the bill for brexit >will still keep all the gypos and diaspora trash
But I guess it's OK, since they suck your mutilated jewish cock on the internet, right?