Ah, the AP.
Of course, they have only our best interests at heart. /s
Pull a few troops out
Defend Americans, not ingrates
The EU has, according to the Bloomberg article I was just reviewing, somewhere around 10% import tariffs on autos.
So we should charge about 10% on European autos.
Unless of course, they are reducing their tariffs.
Which is, the point.
Fine, no more Beemers or VWs or whatever here, completely fine. Make US auto manufacturers come up with comparable vehicles instead of the plastic and aluminum junk that falls apart before its first oil change.
Seeing as the 18 largest cargo ships create more pollution than all the cars in the world put together I’d rather see more countries producing goods closer to home instead of shipping them out around the planet. Just call me an environmental wacko I guess
I say let’s play this out to it’s natural conclusion. The U.S stops trading with E.U and vise versa. I think it would suck but ultimately everyone would be fine. BMW can sell to Spaniards and the Portuguese instead. Sure that would cut them down to size a bit but that’s fine, in the end.
Well, no one accused the EU of being all that smart...Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Americans can live without Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Porsche...Really, besides the Saudis, who else is really buying your $hit...If we don’t buy 10% of your $hit, you will feel it, I gurangodamteeit!!!
Go ahead...DO IT!!!!
The EU is not listening to German auto makers. They told Merkel the EU tarrifs on U.S. cars should be dropped to the lower 10% tarrif on EU cars sent to the U.S. The EU tarrif is 25%, or 250% of the U.S. tarrif.
It becomes more obvious in these times.Maybe it's time to remove our troops and...as NATO members...use their own resources for their defense.
Mea culpa.
I had my tarrif %’s wrong in a prior post.
EU tarrifs on U.S. cars is 10%, while the U.S. tarrif on cars from the EU is 2.5% - a 400% difference (U.S. 400% lower than the EU tarrif on cars).
EU cars are already among the most expensive in the U.S. If the U.S. raises its tarrifs on EU cars to match the EU tarrif, more EU car manufancrturing will shift to the U.S.
And U.S. cars imported to the EU? It’s small compared to U.S. car exports to the EU.
The loser would be the EU, losing car exports to the U.S. and seeing more EU cars manufactured in the U.S.
The EU is writing checks that their body cannot cash. Perhaps it is time to humiliate them for being the two-faced, ungrateful, grifters that they are.
Horse hockey! Go to Europe and tell me how many American cars you see on the highway. Very few.
I thought the auto manufacturers had already signeled they prefer dropping local tariffs to going to trade war with America.
Just tell the EU we will not allow anything into or out of port and customs will detain and confiscate everything currently docked or in US waters. Now that’s an Auto Ban on Importation the American people will love. Then destroy their cars, parts, and sink their ships to make new barrier reefs.
Pull our troops out. Let the EU members become Russian and
Muslim lamp shades.
So the EU is readying tariffs on autos that most Americans can’t buy due to price anyway. Big deal. And their “retaliation” is going to hurt the 6 million EU workers. Nost of these automakers already have plants in the U.S., and will probably shift more production here. Fine with me. Sucks for workers in the EU collective though