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Donald Trump announces plans to hit the UK, Denmark and other European countries with a 10% tariff on "all or any goods" exported to the US from 1 February

In a post on Truth Social, the US president says these will remain in place until "such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland"

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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

EU is a trade union though, so it's all of EU.

He can't tax one EU country different from others.

Let's say he decides to do it anyway.

Then the EU country with the highest tariff could simply move the goods through another EU country with a lower tariff. All on paper of course.

But anyway, why'd EU even care about domestic US taxes..

[–] Hapankaali@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

After all this time, still no one has managed to convey Trump even a rudimentary understanding of what tariffs are, and what the EU is.

[–] sepiroth154@feddit.nl 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That still might affect the Netherlands, as we are Europe's port.

[–] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I am sure our Belgian brothers will be fine with it if we say we came from Antwerp instead, it's only 70 km away from Rotterdam :^)

[–] jjpamsterdam@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's what I was thinking as well. If the Americans are as incompetent as they look we'll see a surge of European exports from Poland or Spain rather than Germany or France. It may suffice to just drive the same goods to Gdansk and ship it from there...?

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

We don't have to drive goods anywhere. It's all on paper.

If the German company shipping German goods from a German harbor says that the goods actually belongs to their Polish subsidiary, that's Polish goods.

[–] jjpamsterdam@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

Since most European businesses already own a letterbox in Ireland or Luxembourg, I suppose they can use those for their exports in such a scenario.