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Trump vows to slap 25% tariffs on EU and claims bloc was ‘formed to screw US’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Argyle13@lemmy.world to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

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Another reminder, altough this was expected, of why we have to buy European (not only from the EU tough, also from neighbouring countries and from the EEC): Trump says that will impose a 25% tariff on imports from the EU, apart from saying that the region was created to screw USA.

He has also said that tariffs to Canada and Mexico will go into effect on the 4th of April. So I am open too to buy goods and services from there (we have their communities promoting local buying because of this nasty movement linked in the right side of the community, if you are interested).

There will be countermovement, but it is important to start buying more european products and services to counter this.

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[-] sighofannoyance@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Trump doesn't want to mess with EU it's 450 million people. USA needs EU as a market to sell their goods. This is just Mercantilism at this point...

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

Never mind their good, it is their services that we got get off. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. Apple is both goods and services. For years digital rights people have been shouting about US tech monopolies, but now.....

Think about, what of DNS, name registration, IP address blocks, MAC address blocks? The controlling "international" bodies are all American.

[-] Argyle13@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

They would want to negotiate something and use this as a threat..maybe it is all related to the big tech companies not wanting to comply with the European regulation, and things like that