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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by addicted on Thursday April 03, 2025 @08:07AM (#43568464)
> Right now Europe's own companies just ignore the statutes to keep their US trade.

If it’s the trade keeping EU companies in line, isn’t the destruction of trade that these tariffs are intended to achieve precisely the kind of thing that will then prevent them from staying in line in the future?

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by ta20240528 on Thursday April 03, 2025 @09:00AM (#43568968)
If its like last time, European strategy (ex France maybe) will rise no higher than "let's just try ride out the next four years, then things will go back to normal".
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