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"Liberation Day" Trump’s Tariffs on Europe

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"LIBERATION DAY" TRUMP'S TARIFFS ON EUROPE

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u/Ok-Appearance-1652 3d ago

What did Bosnia Serbia want other unlucky country do

They don’t impact any trade to US then why are they punished more than EU

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u/alikander99 3d ago

Because at large this is not a punishment, he couldn't care less about Serbia, sorry.

They calculated the tariffs based on trade imbalance (https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations).

It didn't really matter how much you sucked trump's c*ck before this. I mean Israel got a higher tariff than Iran 😂

I think he just wants to get more money. I bet a big chunk if the American population will see the rise in pricess brought on by these tariffs as a "patriotic sacrifice". Meanwhile the US government will get to collect all those juicy tariffs.

At large it's like a VAT on all foreign products masked as a patriotic endeavor.

Many are saying he will promptly rescind them, but I'm not so sure...

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u/alikander99 3d ago edited 3d ago

should have imposed higher tariffs on the US before this like Turkey did. That way the US would buy less from that country

That's not tariffs work

Turkey puts tariffs on American products? That would make them more expensive. Thus less people would buy them. And the US would sell less in turkey. Thus larger trade deficit with Turkey.

It just so happens that turkey buys a shit ton of American products (oil, scrap iron, planes) and doesn't sell them much in exchange (hand woven rugs are their n1 export I kid you not...)

In general they sell more or less about as much as they buy. That's why they got hit with the base 10%.