Hold it a second... you mean, these Bozos are threatening us with a tariff that could reach $28 Million??. Oh, man, let me check the petty cash drawer...
The proper response is to enforce the exact same tariffs against their goods. That is only fair!
The EU can kiss my wookie! If they think their stupid little sanctions will hurt us they have not seen nothing yet. If they go through with lifting the arms embargo against China, our sanctions will hit them and especially their military so hard that they will WISH they went back to 10% unemployment!
Cool we can do that too...
Last week, another earthquake hit the area where the tsunami destroyed so much a few months ago.
The international press kept saying how the UNITED STATES hadn't done enough to establish tsunami warning systems in the area and it's all the USA's fault - Bush's Fault - Greedy American's Fault!
When we get involved - a'la Afghanistan and Iraq - we're wrong.
When we don't get involved, we're wrong.
Can't win the hearts of those without common sense. So - !#@$'em.
What is this, the equivalent of about 15 minutes of one day's trade?? Sheesh. Yeah, that's REALLY gonna bite us hard, EU.
Whatever other arguments can be brought to bear, this move will be inflationary for the EU. Not what they need.
Meanwhile the French are arm-twisting a SE ASisan country that supplies cheap shrimp to the world. If they want to continue doing that to EU countries, they'll have to buy plastic planes from Airbus.
And frankly, there is NO reason for this. The supply is huge.
>> The European Union plans to slap an extra 15 percent import duty on a range of US goods over Washington’s failure to apply an international trade ruling against an anti-dumping law, the EU executive said on Thursday.
Cut these bastards off at the pass by imposing a 100% tariff on their goods entering the U.S.
What are they really saying?
Dumping is OK, don't do anything about it, if you do, we see this as unfair trade and will slap a 15% tariff on you?
Bring it on. In fact, up the ante to 20% on a wider range of products. See if they follow suit. What Germany and France need right now is a trade war. That will help their economies!
Despite some of the highest productivities, low taxes, more hours, cheap land/water we will never achieve a fair trade if we allow these twerps to continue their games. They used to manipulate their currency (As the Italians did all the time before the Euro), play with tax codes (technically no tariff), safety rules, emission standards and more in the hope of exporting, exporting, and exporting while minimizing the imports.
Despite our dollar being at a fair rate today (No longer the over inflation it once had), we will not make any significant gains if we let others talk of free trade as they export their Evian but behind close doors give the US no chance in government contracts, and even manipulate laws to discourage imports. Yes, many in the US will be pis*** off since they can’t get their products or services they like, but we must put our Dickhe** hats on. The MAJOR reason for our trade imbalance is due to a plethora of little paper cut rules, laws and bureaucratic hurdles set up to cut us out in the Asian and European markets.
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