Do not despair: the EU will have some answers to the customs ad from Trump. Grow a higher tax for technical giants.
WITH Tolze 30 percent is not the last word, but a threat. The announcement of US President Donald Trump with a weekend of increasing 30 percent for importing from European goods in the United States is not yet valid until early August. Currently, the following is used: the United States is the EU products with 10 percent imports, cars with 25 percent, steel and aluminum with 50 percent.
The latter is especially painful for interested industries. One thing is clear: these fantasy tariffs should go down. For all 10 percent, most of the European Union could live, although such taxes also press sales, profit and wages. At the negotiations, the European Commission, most likely, will accept a slightly unfair result of an inch 10 percent, European inch 5 percent, and American autocrats give victory.
In the end, the two powers are still allies in NATO and jointly support Ukraine in defense against the Russian war for the attack. This is more than the tariff. However, if this does not work, the trade union must activate the already definite counterclaims in order to increase the pressure on Trump.
By the way, French President Emmanuel Macron rightly recalled the applicable EU legislation against coercion: for example, Europe can exclude American companies from local tenders. Look at the stores and income of American technological giants Amazon, Google, Meta (Facebook, Instagram), Netflix and X.
This is precisely justified: European companies sell more goods in the United States than vice versa, but American corporations have huge excesses, especially with Internet services. In this country, sufficient taxes on your billions of sales and profit for payment, you save yourself. This is the lever that these corporations will feel. Such an argument is not without risk. But sometimes only hardness helps against threats.
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