Comment by carlosjobim
4 days ago
Then where are the hackers in this comment section calling out for the European Council to strike down European tariffs like the US supreme court did?
Where were they before Trump?
4 days ago
Then where are the hackers in this comment section calling out for the European Council to strike down European tariffs like the US supreme court did?
Where were they before Trump?
Please study why tariffs exist in the first place. It is not to punish a country. It is used as protection from a stronger adversary, especially by developing countries, for balancing trade disparities. Not everything can be lop-sided in favor of US.
In the first Trump presidency, it was the same outrage about tariffs, and he wasn't talking (as far as I remember) about punishment and such.
> same outrage about tariffs
Because US is a developed country. US should not be imposing tariffs and taxing its own citizens for zero gains.
> about punishment and such
Tariffs is like taking a battle-axe and hacking your own foot. So it is definitely a punishment for US Citizens. Who do you think was paying the exorbitant 40-50% import duties? It is not the exporting country. It is the US Citizen/Company, that was importing the product/raw material, which had to pay those duties. It is a massive tax on US Citizens apart from the tax they are already paying.
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Which European tariffs are these?
Famously tariffs on steel. The European Union was originally created as a tariffs union, and the official name was "European Coal and Steel Community", which then slowly grew into the EU we have now.
Steel tariffs are still a core part of the EU, and are aggressively used today.
The European Commission has all the information on tariffs you might be interested in at this page:
https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/customs/customs-tariff...
The European Council has a more general information page:
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-tariffs-expla...