• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    The EU should throw tariffs at the US and start stepping up trade with the affected countries.

    The rest of the world could show them waswhat isolation really looks like.

    • Gsus4@mander.xyz
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      1 hour ago

      That’s a good point, the US has had tariff-happy presidents before…but it was a backwater, I guess a majority of americans wants to go back to being a backwater.

    • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc@lemmy.federate.cc
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      7 hours ago

      We already have a bunch of different import tariffs on stuff - it’s not new. Most goods from outside the EU/EEA/CH have at least a small percentage charged on them.

      But, they’re selective and used to protect domestic industries- so for example, cheese from outside Europe has tariffs on it to protect the French and Spanish cheese industries. This is fine, because we can buy those European made cheeses for cheap.

      This is different because we don’t apply enormous tariffs to stuff that mostly comes from abroad. That would be stupid.

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      23 hours ago

      This is what I expect Canada to do. Turn to Europe. It only makes sense. They are a nato country after all. I hope they won’t fold as easily as mexico. Specifically because of Trump’s psuedo-subtle threats of making Canada the 51st state. He never said that about Mexico.

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        19 hours ago

        Yeah because Mexico has People with the wrong skin colour for him