Posted on 04/07/2025 6:19:10 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
France’s trade minister said the European Union’s response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs could be “extremely aggressive” amid increasingly heated rhetoric from Paris.
Speaking ahead of crunch talks in Luxembourg, French Minister of Foreign Trade Laurent Saint-Martin said that Brussels must consider all options in the trade dispute with the United States.
“We must not exclude any option, on goods, on (American) services and open the European toolbox, which is very complete, which can also be extremely aggressive in return,” the minister said per Le Figaro.
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LOL ya ok France, might as well start sewing up more white flags, we all know how this is going to turn out.
Macron sure does a lot of talking for a leader of a country being overrun by goat rapers.
Maybe not wise for France to bring up the efficacy of their national tool boxes while discussing auto imports and exports.
Macron will wave two white flags instead of just one.
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French subsidies, tariffs and some outright bans on American products. Then there’s the EU safety codes designed to keep non EU produced goods out of the EU no matter what. The sad thing is Canada would rather play with the EU than work with America. I guess the Canadians forgot which country fought in Holland at their side. Hint, it wasn’t the Germans, Italians, Swedes, or French.
Don’t be a Panican.
frenchys have gotten brave since ww2.
Incredible courage facing USA, ran like a frightened mouse when facing krauts.
Macron’s popularity is under 30%. And he tries to jail his opponent and rule her out of the next election. Let France fund the war in Ukraine.
Both the EU and America would suffer economically. Neither needs chest-thumping about their side winning this.
In 2023, the European Union (EU) tariffs on U.S. imports varied depending on the product category. The EU imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the U.S., with rates reaching 25%. Additionally, the EU maintained tariffs on politically sensitive goods, including whiskey, peanut butter, motorcycles, and orange juice, ranging from 10% to 50%.
How does the economic activity created in the USA from repatriation of industry cause suffering in the USA?
These countries’ socialist governments set up to drain their bank accounts, and make up the shortfall by tariff-ing the U.S. coffers dry. Trump turned their tariff model against them with his own tariff model designed to drain their coffers dry.
We’ll see who has bigger ones.
Step 1: Pontificate aggressively.
Step 2: Collapse entirely.
France is so pig-headed....maybe work with us?? Remember, you’d all be speaking German if it wasn’t for us...oui??
See? Competition is what makes us all stronger.
Oh ya, much better to do nothing, pretending to work to a solution and give credit to bad faith arguments and lies from the EU on their unfair and destructively intentioned trade polices against the US.
The time for naivety is over, they are not our friends and they have not dealt fairly with us. The EU will not begin to do so until they realize we mean business, that means the time for niceties is over.
(((YAWN))) Who’s France?
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