Posted on 03/12/2025 3:27:41 PM PDT by Kazan
The European Union is reportedly seeking to put pressure specifically on Republican-controlled states as it enacts so-called retaliatory tariff measures on American businesses amid the trade war with the Trump administration.
As an order from U.S. President Donald Trump to impose global 25 per cent tariffs on aluminium and steel products, which are expected to impact an estimated €26 ($28) billion worth of EU exports to America, Brussels announced on Wednesday a package of countermeasures covering about the same in American exports to the bloc.
According to the Associated Press, EU officials admitted that their tariffs would be “aimed at products made in Republican-held states,” including meat produced in Kansas and Nebraska and lumber products from Alabama and Georgia. The bloc will also impose levies against American bourbon whiskey and Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
While President Trump is not up for re-election and, therefore, does not need to worry about personal political ramifications, Brussels appears to be banking that impacted local Republican politicians and lawmakers in Washington, many of whom will face re-election next year, will put pressure on the White House to back down.
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It comes as Eurostat revealed that under the final year of the Biden presidency, America’s trade imbalance with the EU rose to €198.2 ($216.2) billion, up from €155.8 ($170) billion in 2023.
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So they are directly picking sides in our country. There needs to be a price paid for that.
Careful, dear EUnuchs. You wouldn’t want critical provinces to be pinpointed as targets in economic retaliation.
lol — and to think the EU wasn’t meddling in US elections
GTH, EU
Looks like the EU is trying to interfere in our elections, and presumably the midterms next year.
You don’t think a certain political party is “colluding” with the EU to influence our elections and defeat Republicans in 2026? Nah, it couldn’t be.
But I thought that we only pay for our tariffs. Was that a lie?
Dummies, selective discrimination!
Shows how clueless they are. Trump supporting states are the ones most likely to support him. We will find a way to survive. They’d have much more success going after the weak ass blue states
See how “our friends” treat us? Screw the EU.
Blah,Blah,Blah.
Talk is cheap. Show it to us.
Hey, EU, there are Liberals in Red States.
How very childish and vindictive of the leftist Eurotrash.
EUroWeenies need a total anti-Leftist Trade War
Bankrupt the Beemers.
Fair. Leave the UN. Leave NATO. Tell the EU to fight its own wars from now on.
Europeans can avoid tariffs by eliminating their tariffs in made in USA stuff. Trump tariffs are reciprocal. No more than what they charge us.
Ok eurotrash. You are starting to FA, and you’re about to FO.
New Special tariffs on Ille de France, The Ruhr, Berlin, Brussels metro, Amsterdam metro...
Won’t work, Trump would shut down all imports from them if they do such a thing...
They would back down in an instant.
Reciprocal tariffs are fair, they don’t like fair..
Sounds like foreign election interference to me.
Is this the opening for me to open my import/export business from my very blue state? I could avoid the tariffs right? That should more than cover any required shipping.
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