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EU seeks unity in first strike back at Trump tariffs
Reuters ^ | 4/6/2025 | Philip Blenkinsop

Posted on 04/06/2025 3:49:16 PM PDT by Nifty

BRUSSELS, April 6 (Reuters) - European Union countries will seek to present a united front in the coming days against U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs, likely approving a first set of targeted countermeasures on up to $28 billion of U.S. imports from dental floss to diamonds.

Such a move would mean the EU joining China and Canada in imposing retaliatory tariffs on the United States in an early escalation of what some fear will become a global trade war, making goods more expensive for billions of consumers and pushing economies around the world into recession.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; China; European Union; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 666; alreuters; eu; eussr; fourthreich; philipblenkinsop; redchina; reuters; tariff; tds; thebeast
The EU wants to retaliate.
1 posted on 04/06/2025 3:49:16 PM PDT by Nifty
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By, in the scone place, raising Tarrifs on all our goods they don’t import in the first place because of their tariffs.


2 posted on 04/06/2025 3:52:37 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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Let’s just cut our market off to them completely. How long would they survive under those circumstances?


3 posted on 04/06/2025 3:54:20 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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I’m surprised that the United States is the world’s second largest diamond exporter.


4 posted on 04/06/2025 3:59:09 PM PDT by Tai_Chung
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I searched and couldn’t find a single sentence in that drivel that mentioned the tariffs and taxes already in place on US imports, and that have been for decades. Guess I missed it somewhere in roto-reuters text.


5 posted on 04/06/2025 4:05:52 PM PDT by curious7
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“The EU wants to retaliate.”

The European Union has no rightful claim to retaliate against the United States or our interests.


6 posted on 04/06/2025 4:07:01 PM PDT by Round Earther
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I’m surprised that the United States is the world’s second largest diamond exporter.


Yeah, that diamond mine in Arkansas is flooding the market. Actually, the history of the Arkansas diamond mine and why it is now a state park is a fascinating study in the power DeBeers has/had to control the diamond market.


7 posted on 04/06/2025 4:09:29 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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Like a full-on embargo? Can’t say I’m opposed.


8 posted on 04/06/2025 4:10:44 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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These fu###ers have been F-ing us for years and now they are up in arms, “how dare we”, just like the rats and thier zombies here have been stealing the American taxpayers blind, now we find out how bad and we are going to stop it and hopefully indict these parasites and they to are up in arms, “how dare we” stop the pillaging.


9 posted on 04/06/2025 4:14:32 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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Trump can paralyze the EU by simply misgendering them.


10 posted on 04/06/2025 4:16:28 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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Why doesn’t the EU pull out of NATO?

That’ll show us.


11 posted on 04/06/2025 4:25:43 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Russia? China? Democrats and RINOs are the biggest threat to the survival of America.)
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Yep, for the EU. Then they do not have to worry about the 10% tariffs, do they. 😋


12 posted on 04/06/2025 4:38:40 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Based on my knowledge, We charge the EU 2.5%. The EU charges us 20%. So if we increase from 2.5% to 20%, what’s their problem in equalizing the two tariffs?

Anyway, my only interest ina ything from the EU is BMW and Mercedes.

13 posted on 04/06/2025 5:05:44 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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At the end, I suspect only the US vs some EU countries.


14 posted on 04/06/2025 5:08:19 PM PDT by paudio (MATH: 45<47)
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While the EU seeks to maintain a united front, RINOs in Congress seek to undermine ours.


15 posted on 04/06/2025 5:19:09 PM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Robert DeLong

We should respond with banning all automobiles, vehicle parts and wine manufactured in Europe.


16 posted on 04/06/2025 5:21:49 PM PDT by Old West Conservative
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Trump can paralyze the EU by simply misgendering them.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Now that there is really a funny one!


17 posted on 04/06/2025 6:27:00 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (President Trump is America's long-awaited SUPREME Commander in Chief. Deus Vult!)
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They can’t cut their tarrifs bc that’s how they afford their generous welfare state to all the illegal immigrants over there. This would disrupt the NWO bigly and I think that’s one of the things trump and company are doing, destroying the liberal NWO


18 posted on 04/06/2025 6:33:00 PM PDT by pangaea6
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The EU wants company to gang up on Trump.

Nobody wants to stick their neck out.

Our enemies aren’t united.

We need to be to take advantage of that.


19 posted on 04/06/2025 6:36:43 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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