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Re:US Trade Court Finds Trump Tariffs Illegal by wqaatwt on Thursday May 29, 2025 @08:50AM (#44125569)
Right. The average tariff on US goods applied by the EU is 4.1% IIRC Canada was significantly lower. So having “some sort of a tariff” isn’t that meaningful on its own.
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Re:US Trade Court Finds Trump Tariffs Illegal by mensetmanusman on Thursday May 29, 2025 @09:22AM (#44125864)
It’s impossible to get the effective tariff rate because everyone works around them with VATs and random things like movie ticket taxes for foreign films that are effective tariffs but not officially counted as such.
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Re:US Trade Court Finds Trump Tariffs Illegal by wqaatwt on Thursday May 29, 2025 @10:34AM (#44126525)
> around them with VATs

That’s such an absurd and nonsensical thing to say. How did you come up with it?

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Re:US Trade Court Finds Trump Tariffs Illegal by johnnyanmac on Thursday May 29, 2025 @04:27PM (#44130023)
in this day and age it doesn't even phase me. The president clearly doesn't care about coherent arguments, so why would anyone who potentially voted for him?
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Re:US Trade Court Finds Trump Tariffs Illegal by Topfi on Thursday May 29, 2025 @10:56AM (#44126711)
I was unaware EU goods are exempt from VAT over here. When did that change?
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