So when the EU declares 50% tariffs on US imports....

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How many jobs in the US will be lost? Does the criminal racist dummy have a clue?

[2naSalit]

1. Doesn't matter...

Since he doesn't care.

[surfered]

2. No he doesn't. He's an idiot. His tiny brain is focused not on tariffs and free trade, but on trade deficits.

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We buy coffee from countries that don’t buy our yachts, planes, or tanks. So, we have a trade deficit with them. A tariff will raise its price, but those countries will still not buy tanks from us and we cannot grow coffee (except for Hawaii, which has really good coffee by the way ).

He’s an idiot who obsesses about some random fact he hears and it rolls around in his empty head causing him to make stupid policies.

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6. Brilliant, concise point.

Agreed, thanks for sharing.

[Littlered]

3. I'm not familiar with our EU trade.

What do they import from us?

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7. Our EU Trade was growing, a lot, under Biden

Now, we must be friends with Putin. Our criminal rapist asshole of a President says so,

[Tarzanrock]

4. Here you go:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=USA-EU_-_international_trade_in_goods_statistics

[appmanga]

5. I'm starting to believe these threats are a front for market manipulation...

...and maybe Wall Street is thinking so too because today's drop wasn't quite as large as previous ones on this kind of news. This is a fascist kleptocratic oligarchy. Who the hell ever had that on their Bingo card?

[DFW]

8. It was rather telling in the oval office

On camera, Trump pointed to a guy next to him the day after he reversed himself on some ridiculous pronouncement, and said, “i just made him $900,000,000 yesterday!” That was probably one of his more truthful moments, too.

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10. Maybe the market is saying. "Fuck Trump" and we are still investing in markets that make sense.

Makes sense if you need sound financial advice. Who the fuck knows what Trump will wreck next? I guarantee it won't be a gold crypto passholder to the Inner Sanctum.

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12. My folks would have been blown away with the current state of the Republican Party.

Remember, though, this Party - after IKE - has never had balls or vision. Just a mission to deliver more tax cuts to the very rich that don't need it.

[kelly1mm]

9. Why would they do that? I have read that tariffs are just a tax on your own people. Why would the EU

be so stupid to put a 50% tax on US goods on their own people?

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13. Really?

You pay 50% tariffs on US imports of your product...and you are OK with that? EU should kill this clown with tariffs,
Make him look as stupid as he is. Why is Trump killing our EU relationship? Putin's orders?

[kelly1mm]

15. Yes really. Why would the EU tax its own people because President Trump taxed us? nt

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16. The tax will be paid by a reduction in sales. EU has a $235BB trade surplus with the US.

[Tarzanrock]

11. Reciprocal tariffs are imposed

to level the playing field by encouraging countries, here the US, to reduce their own tariffs and improve access for other countries' exports. In some cases, such as here, the E.U.'s reciprocal tariffs are used as a form of retaliation against countries like the US here which are seen as imposing excessively high tariffs or other barriers on imports. The Turd has unilaterally started his "trade wars" -- this "trade war" will not end well for him nor for our country nor for the American people.

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14. It's killing the world economy.

Cui Bono?