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Cake day: March 11th, 2025

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  • You’d be right if everything is grown and made everywhere. And there are plenty of luxury goods where it would be better if people didn’t make a big deal out of it like with french champagne and Italian marble. It is also weird with clothing, the US and EU have plenty of fashion companies that could theoretically make a profit even if only selling in their home market. But where ever the brand is from, most clothing is made outside of US and EU. Why? The cost of labour. And you’ll need some very high import duties if you want to counter them low wages.


  • Tariffs are basically import duties usually for a specific group of products from a specific country or region, the reason they counter the US tariffs is to pressure them into excluding them. So yes they hit European citizens with this tax, but because they buy less they also ‘punisg’ the company selling the products. The goal is to get the US to be nice to them, by showing them what it feels like if the US isn’t nice to them. It’s a bit like ‘if I can’t play with your toys, you can’t play with mine’.