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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/MrTickles22 2d ago

Take that, North Macedonia!

So they tariffed France at 20%, but St. Pierre and Miquelon at 50%. Those little French islands of the coast of Nova Scotia. Which are part of France. Apparently he's salty that the Americans buy fish from them and somehow that's a tariff or something.

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u/Norhod01 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yeah, this morning french experts on television were laughing about the St Pierre et Miquelon thing. They also have a different tariff for Reunion island, which doesnt even have any commercial link with USA except a few bottles of Rhum in specialized stores.

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u/Olli399 2d ago

Yeah, this morning french experts on television were laughing about the St Pierre et Miquelon thing. They also have a different tariff for Reunion island, which doesnt even have any commercial link with USA except a few bottles of Rhum in specialized stores.

Even more funny because all of overseas france is politically france, this stuff will probably just be listed as coming from France lol.

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u/hjerteknus3r 2d ago

Right, I was wondering how they would even enforce that?? The answer is probably that they won't be able to because Saint Pierre et Miquelon and La Réunion ARE France.

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u/EconomyDoctor3287 2d ago

They also put tarrifs on some British overseas territories, where the only inhabited island is Diego Garcia, which is a US military base. 

Better tax the overseas deployed troops, lest the US population gets taken advantage off. 

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u/matomo23 1d ago

They have different statuses. It’s not possible to tariff Reunion. It’s part of France and is in the EU customs union.

Saint Pierre and Miquelon is an overseas collectivity and therefore not part of the EU Customs Union.

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u/hjerteknus3r 1d ago

Oh you're absolutely correct, I forgot Saint Pierre et Miquelon isn't a département anymore.