[LordHeini]

I think that is basically the case indirectly.

Here an example with my limited understanding:

Chinese steel is super expensive in the US now, so US manufacturers buy less of it raising the cost of US products.

This makes Chinese steel more available on the world market and it becomes cheaper for everyone else.

Due to the increased cost of steel US stuff made out of said steel, is generally more expensive while everyone else's become cheaper.

So products not made in the US become cheaper in comparison and thus sell better for more profit.

Oddly enough the EU imposed counter Tariffs on some weird stuff like Alcohol and Motorcycles...

Europeans can easily replace Jim Beam in their Cola.

And Harley Davidson is insanely expensive anyway with the usual customers being by MC-Members or dentist in their midlife crisis.

[pjc50]

> Oddly enough the EU imposed counter Tariffs on some weird stuff like Alcohol and Motorcycles...

Red state tariffs.

NB the US tariffs apply to EU steel and steel products, not just Chinese ones, which is why this whole thing is happening.

[LordHeini]

I am sure most people in the European parliament don't know or care what a red state is. It's one of those American things that is opaque to Europeans.

I guess they tried to find stuff to tax which does not hurt the bigger European populace.

The US biggest export is oil and they certainly want that to be cheap so no tariffs there.

And they are incapable of putting tarifst on online services and digital products.

[FirmwareBurner]

>Red state tariffs.

How does that help? That will only make red states hate the EU more, not Trump. The EU already had tariffs against red state as retaliation back in his first term and it didn't affect him.

I don't know if you know but MAGA crowd already doesn't like the EU because they see them as ungrateful freeloaders in term of trade deficit and receiving free defense and would very much like to see the US pull out of NATO and leave them to the Russians.

EU targeting them specifically will only prove their point not turn them against Trump.

IMHO, if you wann get to trump target Elon Musk's businesses and the likes of Big Tech who kissed his ring, Meta, etc.