EU might get no tarrifs if they also put tariffs on china

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EU might get no tarrifs if they also put tariffs on china

So I have spoken with a EU politician and he said that the Trump administration staff have mentioned about some of the possible terms under which the EU might avoid tariffs.

Seem that Trump wants the EU to also put tariffs on china in that case the US might go back to a free trade agreement with the EU with some exemptions (maybe leaving some tariffs only on key industries). The EU would also need to drop all trade barriers with the US and commit to buy more US goods and weapons to balance the trade.

Musk said he sees free trade with the EU in the future too.

EU is probably the only area US tech companies really care about as the EU could put high tariffs on ad revenues generated from eu viewers on Facebook, x, Google, etc...
While china already banned all those companies from operating in china a long time ago.

I wonder if they could extend the same terms to other countries like Canada or Japan.

If the Europeans follow Trump demands we might see the formation of s new cold war like trading blocks and factories abandoning china in droves as they would lose both of their main export markets.

This might have worked if the Trump admin didn't decide to inform the EU that the USA isn't their ally anymore a month ago

high tariffs on ad revenues

pretty sure advertiser just pays meta in the EU. Why would meta have to send that back to the us

Yeah, no one trusts Trump now because he'll turn around and just Tariff Europe again next month

Rember a week ago his 5d chess was to pivot away from Europe and towards the pacific and then he collapsed Taiwan and Japans economies?
Hes just been retarded the whole time

It's still an US owned subsidiary.

Would be as easy as requesting the big tech firms to release exactly how much money they made from ads shown to the EU. If they do tax them 20% on those revenues which is something like 200billion between ads and other digital services. So that would cost 40billions per year (or over one Twitter worth to out it into prospective) every year to US tech companies.
If they refuse to comply than they could charge them 20% of ALL publicly known revenues based on US tax filings since they can't differentiate.
If they refuse to pay they could block them like china does costing about 200billions per year to the US tech companies and likely lead to the EU making its own apps and the like just as china has done long ago with WeChat and youku instead of Whatsapp and YouTube etc...

this is basically like the russia sanctions
all cucked countries that are slave to the USA (basically the whole first world) will comply because they are pussies
remember even switzerland broke its neutrality with russia

Europe trusted the US over Ukraine and look how that worked out. I'm predicting a fell for it again award for the EU.

and commit to buy more US goods and weapons to balance the trade.

It won't happen. It's politically impossible to do. It would destroy the EU. A lot of countries would rather leave the EU than being forced to buy American shit.

So I have spoken with a EU politician

my uncle is an EU politician who just flew over my house

That was a wild event that just compeltly went under the radar just because people already assume Switzerland is on the US side.

Let's be honest when everyone knew the US blew up the main EU pipeline from Russia and sold EU overpriced LNG as replacement nobody batted an eye.
When the US pushed the EU to not be neutral over Ukraine and send weapons instead of helmets and medical kits the EU went along. Now the US is telling the EU to handle the cost of the Ukrainian mess itself and they are doing so.

At this point I think the EU has not really been free since 1945 for some countries and the Suez canal crisis from France and UK. Everyone can just be forced by the US to do what the US wants.

So I would not be surprised that the EU just bends over again and in 3 years the next administration removes tariffs on everyone leaving the EU standing there like idiots again.

people still believe that switzerland is neutral after confiscating assets of russian citizens

The reason that Russia struggled so much in Ukraine was because of the US. Ukraine is a European country btw, maybe you should consider that.

This would be retarded, so it will probably happen

my dad works at EU

so uh, what happens to the billion people in China when their country's investment in manufacturing and real estate completely implodes

So I have spoken with a EU politician and he said that the Trump administration staff have mentioned about some of the possible terms under which the EU might avoid tariffs.

my wife's daughter also work at EU
won't happen because that retard orange man said NO to the Ursula deal

Civil war and cannibalism probably.

I wonder if they could extend the same terms to other countries like Canada or Japan.

Canadians already fell for it. They tariffed Chinese EVs with the US a year ago when Biden was in office

well, luckily it looks like it won't be happening

That's retarded.
We actually buy things from China, we don't have a use for the trash that the US exports. You have iphones, gpus, cpus and financial services.
We can do the financial services bit. The iphone, gpu & cpu industry are all reliant on tsmc, taiwan, china etc so.

Fuck off America. Do the needful.

The EU would also need to drop all trade barriers with the US

Oh, like VAT? Which would get the US an unfair upperhand on even domestic goods? LOL

I wouldn't be suprised if we see some new EU/China trade deal soon.

They will use their factories to mass produce weapons for war

if they also put tariffs on china

lol
maybe doable without us shitting all over yuros for the last three months
now? no chance

its more likely that EU places sanctions on the US than they do on China lmao. Literally threatening allies with invasion, abandoning ukraine, sucking putins cock.

China is extremely stable trading partner. No one is hitching their wagons to the orange retard anymore.

This, there's no advantage to destroying their relationship with China to placate the US which will undoubtedly make more demands later on

Exactly. Trump is a fucking retard if his ultimate plan was to turn the world against China, because he just did it to the US.

Yeah, a fucking sovereign nation got invaded in europe and Trump decided to buddy-up with the invader. And now expects europe to just be his friend again, after trying to downplay an invasion in europe. Guy is either a complete schizo or a retard.

EU would also need to drop all trade barriers

This is only possible if there's a complete harmonization of US and EU regulatory standards, which seems extremely unlikely to happen

we might see the formation of s new cold war

The new US administration is packed with edgy lolbertarians, pulling industrial subsidies, smashing research and creating an environment where only idiots would choose to enter a career in academia or public sector. It can't stick to a deal, not even one Trump himself signed. It unashamedly wallows in blatant corruption. The US doesn't exactly look like the inevitable winner of a cold war with China

commit to buy more US goods and weapons to balance the trade

"Not only do we want you to commit to our gang of losers and forever shun cheap goods, we also want you to further demolish your own arms industries and pay us even more tribute than you already do"

war with us

My dad works at EU Nintendo headquarters and he confirms this

US lost Europe back in January.

US doesn't exactly look like the inevitable winner of a cold war with China

So what? When EU gets rid of US bases on its soil, maybe then it earns the privilege of choosing a side. For now they don't get to choose

wipe out 5 trillion in stock market to fix 890 billion trade deficit (maybe)

sounds good ter meh

EU will not accept that.
They already are aligning with Li Qiang right now.

I am done with this shit if our leaders keep selling us out to the US.

Same thing as biz saying 3 gorges dam breaking. 2 weeks

fpbp, you'll get called a tranny for this one

That's a nice narrative, very cute.

oops forgot my picture

It is not a narrative. The USA lost too much trust. I know that you MAGAtards don't get it but trust is very important for Anon Babbleness.

EU is the only large consumer market comparable to the US that's also a similar production zone, so it makes sense that if we were to do "free" trade with anyone, it would be them (our asian allies as well but that's another story). Having them join us in a loose trading bloc is a great idea but there's a problem, and it's the EU: their arrogance and hatred of the US is at generational highs right now. Getting them to agree to anything without some dumbass german economy minister from mouthing off in the press and scuttling deals before they get off the ground will be impossible.

For that reason I don't see any deal being made even though it's objectively a great idea. TURKEY is more likely to play ball on such a thing.

Yeah ok, is that trust going to kick 84 thousand US soldiers out of EU? Until you do that, you obey your commands and keep coping with your cute narratives

84 thousand US soldiers out of EU

everyone knows they are going

EU WILL NEVER HAVE FREE TRADE WITH THE NIGGER MUT EMPIRE
GO OD ON FENT YOU FUCKING NIGGER LOVERS

This is nice conjecture but realistically EU trade barriers vs China are going to happen regardless of what Trump says or wants.

China runs a gigantic trade surplus vs the world, right now mostly vs US. When US demand is going away they will look to Europe to absorb that demand. And while everyone can make jokes about ineffectual Brussels bureaucrats they will not let that happen. Whatever it takes.