EU slaps $200m trade sanctions on US imports

Times Online ^ | November 05, 2003 | BY AFP IN BRUSSELS

[akbaines]

Interesting goings ons

[milan]

Slap a friggin tariff on BMW, Braun, and VW and see how long this lasts...oh yeah, and the cheese and wine that France exports.

[Viva Le Dissention]

Yes, that's brilliant. Ahhh...what we need is another trade war. I've always thought the Depression built character.

[Bonaparte]

"Slap a friggin tariff.."

The only tariffs or sanctions that will hurt them are the ones "passed" by you and me and every American who is sick and tired of everything European.

[w1andsodidwe]

This is all about the EU trying to over rule US law. We can't give them that power.

[longtermmemmory]

and yet they give france a pass for EU sanctions there.


Selective enforncement by socialists.

[templar]

I've always thought the Depression built character.

Have to agree. Seems to me that the generation that came out of the depression had far greater character than the generation that preceeded or followed it.

[RWR8189]

If its a trade war they want, its a trade war they get.

[Bonaparte]

"This is all about the EU trying to over rule US law. We can't give them that power."

We don't need to. The USSC already has. Read their decisions. European law and custom are mentioned endlessly, even though they have absolutely no bearing on any matter before that court.

[Gritty]

So, lemme get this straight.

We're all for "free trade" here and want to let the world take all our businesses to their countries while allowing them to export here from their slave-labor countries unrestricted and without tariffs. And now these Euroweenies want to slap tariffs of us because one of their rump courts have declared us in some sort of technical WTO violation!!??

Screw 'em. The Constitution allows Congress to set tariffs. Let's get moving and start working for our own interests instead of those of the rest of the blood-sucking world!

[Norse]

You slap more tariffs on their stuff, they will just retaliate once again. This tit-for-tat garbage was started by Bush when he slapped on steel tariffs.

[greasepaint]

The surrender-monkeys have their 'VAT export rebate'.
Why is the US rebate any different?

[RS]

"You slap more tariffs on their stuff, they will just retaliate once again."

... and the governments will care because why ?....

... a tariff is a tax against their OWN people for buying our stuff - kind of like their government trying to create a boycott against our goods, and raking in more cash when their people will not boycott it.

High tariffs help governments, not people.

[corkoman]

my bmw was built in Spartenburg, So. Carolina

[bert]

I thought FSC's were pretty much out of vogue?

[Spirited]

Meanwhile American goods are cheaper for them since the dollar is slowly sinking into the mire. The Euro has risen 28% against the dollar since last Christmas.

[RS]

The Euro has risen 28% against the dollar since last Christmas."

But then again the Euro is about where it was when it first came out.

[Norse]

>High tariffs help governments, not people.

Maybe temporarily, until the economy crashes because of the tariffs and revenue starts to plummet

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Ah yes free trade. Only Americans are stupid enough to buy that quasi-religious argument. Every one else is busy protecting their own workers.

[RS]

"Maybe temporarily, until the economy crashes because of the tariffs and revenue starts to plummet"

I'm confused... OUR economy crashes because they tax THEIR citizens more when they buy our stuff ?

They have an overload of our dollars anyway - trade deficit - so making it more expensive to turn those green pieces of paper into goods hurts us how ?