Europe

Fuck it. Send a letter back saying that you're not going to have this pointless dick waving contest. You're stopping all trade with the US and nationalizing US commercial and military assets in the EU. Effective tomorrow unless the US come back to the negotiating table with a zero tariff policy already signed and ready to go.

Trust me, we're all still thinking about it. This is a failed attempt to deflect

This "tariff" is just a distraction from the Epstein files scandal, nothing more. It's just noise, not news.

Trump is a eurofederalist icon now I guess 💅

First, what the fuck is that random capitalization?

Yes, he’s a demented rapist.

Second, so your giving us in writing, that these tariffs ~~may~~ will be modified at will if you feel so.

Yes, he’s a demented rapist.

Third, which country are you talking about? Europe is a continent. EU is a union of independent countries/nations.

Yes, he’s an incredibly stupid and demented rapist.

He’s the most humiliating thing we could come up with, apparently.

At first I thought it might be a standing point for Orbán to point out that they want this (but the bad EU, yadda yadda), but after actually reading that garbage of a propaganda piece, I can only imagine that part is boiler-plate, and noone along the chain caught it or could be bothered with correcting it.

Trump is serving up the distmantling of most US soft powers. Like how is this not a game of chicken for us to bunch up on Ireland and tell them no more fucking around with appl and alphabet. I'd love nothing more than a third level bureaucrat tucked away in Strassbourg to calculate exactly how much societal and global harm these companies cause. We could shift that into dollars (somehow?), and make sure they pay that tax, or we start filtering their sites. I rarely believe restriction is the way to go, but nothing would really be lost here.

I am amazed thtavit keeps working every time. At some point, the market will stop reacting to the taco blackmails

Just so you know you pay the tariff rate that was effective when the item was shipped, so if it is in transit before August 1st you would pay the current tariff rate

You’re right in how it works, except when you say nothing is stopping a country to sell elsewhere, demand/supply/market conditions do. They are probably selling to other countries as much as they can anyway, and still sell to the US as well. So when they can’t sell to the US, it won’t be easy for those companies to find other customers to take this volume. If they existed, they would have been sold to anyway.

It is indeed bad for US businesses and consumers, and therefore for US economy in general, but as US market is so big and important, it's also bad for countries doing business with US, including in Europe, like, for example, German carmakers or French and Italian alcohol exporters.

Suspend American IP in Europe (which is a counter-tariff measure that the EU has already approved regulations for).

Watch the TACO do his thing.

It would be more appropriate from Europe to count all the environmental harm corpos like Cocacola get away with and simply start taxing based on the extra strain they cause to society. Give a number and just not budge. It is not hard to deal with this man.

Therefore, we invite you to participate in the extraordinary Economy of the United States, the Number One Market in the World, by far.

any updates on the price of eggs?

In his first presidency, he started contracting pens specifically for this. It's a big signature that is very visible when he holds up his signed letter to the cameras after signing. It's a deliberate performance, with an absurd signature for that gesture and good pictures.

Just look at this absurdity

Every. Time.

/edit: New England Firm Makes President Trump’s Pens (YouTube) 1:20, 8 years ago

honestly, if you handed him a fountain pen, i don't think he'd figure out how to use it.