EU to Trump on tariffs: Go ahead, make our day. – POLITICO
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BRUSSELS — The European Union said on Thursday it was ready to deploy its strongest trade weapon against the U.S. after President Donald Trump threatened to impose sweeping tariffs and scorned the EU as having been created to “screw” America.

“We have an Anti-Coercion Instrument, and we will have to use it,” Agriculture Commissioner Christophe Hansen said in Paris after meeting with his French counterpart Annie Genevard at the Salon de l’Agriculture farming exhibition.

  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    And hard to avoid when you’re the third country by size AND population, like no shit a country with ⅒ your population won’t be able to buy as much as they sell to you…

    If Canada had the same population as the USA it would probably go the other way.

    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      1 day ago

      No, I think the problem is that the US dollar is overvalued because it’s also used as the global reserve currency. If the dollar went down then other places could afford to buy US made stuff and the US would import less. As it is US exports are mainly monopolies (Google, Facebook, AWS, Apple) and weapons that they can bully NATO members into buying (the US is supposed to buy for an equal amount from the countries that buys weapons from them but that isn’t happening). There’s also agricultural products but the labour used is illegal immigrants that are terribly underpaid.