Posted on 04/10/2025 6:35:08 AM PDT by hardspunned
Komisar von der Leyen informs the union members that she has decided to pause the retaliation tariffs against the USA, based on the 90-day pause announced by President Trump. However, in actuality there’s not much difference even within the pause as the German/EU autos are still tariffed (25%) and the steel and Aluminum tariffs’ (25%) still apply.
The only gain from yesterday’s modification in the global tariff regime for the EU was a switch from 20% EU tariff to a baseline 10% tariff during the pause.
The total EU relief is 10% for 90-days; but that was enough for Komrade Ursula to mount her high-horse and claim magnanimity status.
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Trump took away the jitters. Why do I think he thought of this beforehand based on cause and effect.....
Trump is honest to goodness playing 5D economic chess with the world. NO, don’t look for a sarc tag either.
Seems to me that China,the EU,Canada and Japan are the biggest deals to resolve.
Van der Leyen blinked.
She and her thugs will find a few hundred EU Average Joes to lock up for “hate speech” to make themselves feel better.
“Trump took away the jitters. Why do I think he thought of this beforehand based on cause and effect.....”
Trump has been thinking this for 8 years. If his congress in 2017 wasn’t run by RINOS he would have had this done back then.
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