France is in the EU, which is a trading bloc, so the US can’t embargo goods from France without embargoing the entire EU. The EU is the world’s largest market, and frankly, considering the economic circumstances, neither the US or the EU can afford a pathetic tit-for-tat trade war at a time of increasing difficulties and rising unemployment. The politicians need to grow up.....
Here’s an idea - get the Germans to shut the French up, put a 800% duty on EU cars.
I’m not talking about an embargo; I’m talking about meeting an outrageous (proposed) French tariff on Coca-Cola (syrup) imports with an equally onerous counter-tariff, in hopes that both sides will eventually back down, once they “grow up,” as you put it.
I don’t agree, however, that the USA should simply “bend over and take it” — that is, do nothing in response — if France indeed imposes the Coca-Cola tariff as threatened.
The real underlying problem is the European ban on beef that isn’t hippy-greenie.
EU is not the biggest market...we are and should not allow the unfair trade policies that now exist.