In response to Trump’s executive order, slapping tariffs on steel, EU’s Juncker threatened to hit US brands with taxes in retaliations.
Hours after Trump said in a Twitter message that “trade wars are good, and easy to win,” European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said the bloc was prepared to respond forcefully by targeting imports of Harley-Davidson Inc. motorbikes, Levi Strauss & Co. jeans and bourbon whiskey from the U.S.
In response to all of the outrage and comments by the EU, Trump published the following tweets.
The United States has an $800 Billion Dollar Yearly Trade Deficit because of our “very stupid” trade deals and policies. Our jobs and wealth are being given to other countries that have taken advantage of us for years. They laugh at what fools our leaders have been. No more!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2018
If the E.U. wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on U.S. companies doing business there, we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S. They make it impossible for our cars (and more) to sell there. Big trade imbalance!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2018
Trade war with Europe when? Aside from you panic fuckers, does anyone even give a shit about this? We are a self-sustaining nation and do not need the importation of foreign shit upon these shores. Let the trade wars begin. As traders, we will simply switch sides and become the orcs of Middle Earth and perpetuate the era of the short.
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Get in the hot flames of Mount Doom!
Take a dip into the smelter.
Wowzerz. Check out EC.
Currency war ? trade war ? hot war. Ain’t gonna be different this time. Banksters need war, any war, ideally hot war as a cover for the implosion of the financial racket to prevent all the lunatics with AR15 from dragging them out of their palaces and hanging them right on the front lawn; or simply putting a bullet in their greedy heads.
American cars are for faggots.
Oh get back in your Renault Dauphine and STFU before I drive my Hummer over your sweet ride.
Hummer is a product if China
So in bizarro world, does this mean shippers are bottoming out?
Trading the ramblings of a moron…. interesting times indeud!
Can’t wait for ATH’s Monday..
Very true that the US can survive without imports. Until, that is, your 52 in tv aint gonna be 2000 bucks no more.
China has been exporting deflation for the longest time esp on electronics and gadgets which the masses enjoy.
I am legging into WMT here, prove me wrong.
WMT gets most of their stuff from… wait for it…
China.
Bad move… try again.
Maybe you should start investing in Curtis Mathis TVs.
Agreed, American cars suck unless you brainlessly endorse “America First” at the expense of better-made, longer-lasting, better-driving motor vehicles (that includes HD).
Yes, I know there are HD fans among us who are intellectually inferior to chimanzees. Whatever…
Too much manufacturing infrastructure was moved away. Was risky in many ways, a few of them; loss of control of infrastructure, creation of a competitor, shit quality…
So far shit quality and creation of a competitor have emerged. Loss of control of infrastructure could easily occur also eg other jurisdiction uses infrastructure for own population instead.
Time to de-globalize, at least give it a start…imo
Of course the Lying Republican Scum want you to believe that cheap Chinese imports are to blame for job losses, but the truth is, the Scum first moved the jobs out of the North to the South, and then out of the South to Mexico.
The Scum are more than happy to sacrifice a community if it gives them the means to buy their mistress a Lexus.
Sad that you choose to side with so called other side of scum. Your point being…?
Tariffs on dumped or subsidized product is fine, but tariffs to protect inefficient industry are stupid.
Agreed. We could impose tariffs on TVs but that wouldn’t change the prudence of investing in Curtis Mathes, GE, etc.
I heard some say Trump’s trade position displays naivety.
Well this should bring my GM back to cost as it got hit hard with the trade war talk, eh?
Tariffs are a tacit admission that “we suck and you are smarter than we are, so we’re going to make up for our laziness/stupidity by charging our citizens more for home-made inferior products.”
That’s like Trump slapping tariffs on all the Atlantic City hotels that don’t have his name on them so people will spend exorbitant prices on his cock-roach infested, snake-dwelling, e-coli-ridden-buffets, casinos/hotels.
Yeah, now I want to own a Curtis-Mathis TV and stay at Trump Plaza more than ever…
NOT.
It’s like Trump making America great again.
Shut up already
Love me some trade wars.
Not
Truth is, these fagots aren’t doing shit. We have Soliders stationed in their gay countries.
But…. our CIA does tell their media what to print. So we will see.
Regards
Chuck Bennett
NATO, innit.
You said it.
Regards
Chuck Bennett