Glad to see the EU taking a stand.
Here in the US our government has turned on us, so any iota of resistance we can get from the international community is a welcome sight.
“A deal is a deal”
The fuck it is. There are no deals possible with the US. Bad faith actors with no court, congress or rule of law.
Indeed, I’m all 🍿
Unfortunately the EU has no say in the tariffs that the US charges its own citizens. US customs can just ignore the Supreme Court ruling and keep charging people to get their stuff out of lockdown and there’s not a whole lot anyone can do. In theory the Supreme Court could maybe charge Trump with contempt of court but that’s about as likely as Trump suddenly becoming a decent human being instead of an ambulatory bag of excrement.
Unfortunately the EU has no say
Actually we do, when Trump last time threatened EU, EU suspended the ratification process of the trade deal, and Trump IMMEDIATELY pulled back.
EU has lots of options to retaliate against USA, for instance tax on American IT services is a very high ranking one.
Just Denmark alone supply 70% of insulin to USA. And handles 30% of container cargo to USA. This was revealed recently because of Trump threats against Greenland, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
USA is far from as independent as they like to pretend, they have dependencies even on a tiny country like Denmark of only 6 million citizens.
EU has given many admissions to USA under Trump, but patience is running out.They put in new clauses in the 750 billion trade deal between EU and US, if Trump threatens to take Greenland one more time the deal is off the table: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-parliament-us-trade-deal-approval-us-donald-trump-proof-safeguards/
patience is running out.
run out faster
I like the option of not acknowledging US copyrights, patents, or trademarks for a minimum of one year
Let’s see how quickly the oligarchs attack Trump
They could just start with not enforcing the anti-circumvention clause of the us dmca.
Let there be jail-broken iPhones with European owned app stores.
All existing U.S. patents, trademarks, and copyrights are are permanently invalid. Gotta put some teeth into it.
EU has lots of options to retaliate against USA
They do indeed. Aren’t they like the third largest economic market in the world? They can make it really sting if they’re motivated.
Europe is indeed the third largest economy in the world, but EU is the global leader in trade.
Unfortunately the EU has no say in the tariffs that the US charges its own citizens
They can say:
“Since US Consumers can pay 15% more, we’ve decided to implement a 15% export fee to any product to the US.”
That takes the “power” away from trump, he can raise the price as much as he wants but he becomes powerless to lower it.
Almost every “American” product is at best assembled components, and each one of those components can be hit by export fees by the country that makes them.
It’s a very easy movie, almost guaranteed to work, and makes them money. I don’t know why they’re not doing it.
Trump is so weak, they should capitalize on this moment.
“He’s so weak, it’s laughable”
- Donald Trump (on Jeb Bush), 2016.
