Posted on 04/03/2025 10:00:52 AM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick slammed European Union policies after President Trump announced a 20% tariff on the 27-nation trading bloc — saying that “they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak.”
Lutnick, a former CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, defended Trump’s sweeping “Liberation Day” reciprocal tariffs, which will start taking effect April 5, by pointing to the allegedly unfair treatment of US goods in global trade.
“The European Union won’t take chicken from America. They won’t take lobsters from America. They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak. It’s unbelievable,” Lutnick told Fox News’ Sean Hannity Wednesday night.
“We can’t sell corn to India. We can’t sell rice to Asia. Why in the world do we let these people sell their cars? 94% of cars in Japan are made in Japan.”
Trump’s administration assessed the steepest new tariffs on jurisdictions with which the US has trade deficits and which have higher tariffs and non-tariff barriers.
The EU’s agricultural restrictions include a ban on the use of substances that provoke hormonal responses in cattle and rules that conflict with US industry-standard microbial washes for chicken.
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“I, too, thought corned beef and cabbage was an Irish dish. Must be an immigrant dish”
Yes corn beef and cabbage is 100% an American dish made by Irish immigrants substitution of cheaper and plentiful American beef for their native salted pork. My redheaded Irish wife gets a kick out of St Patrick’s day and the corn beef craze every year. We went down to Greenville Ave this year after the parade and every restaurant everywhere had this American dish for the rabble to drunkenly guzzle down. What a cluster F that scene was. People falling down drunk at 4 pm not a one of them redheaded. She refers to herself as not a “daywalker” aka a super ginger.
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