European Union releases 10-page list of potential targets for retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post




By David J. Lynch and Michael Birnbaum March 16 at 12:56 PM

The European Union Friday made public a 10-page list of American products that are potential targets for retaliation if President Trump refuses to exempt the allied bloc from his new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

The list offered the most detailed glimpse to date of the likely targets for E.U. action, including products selected for maximum political impact in the United States. Among them: Bourbon, a specialty of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Kentucky; cranberries which grow in House Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s native Wisconsin; orange juice from Florida and tobacco from North Carolina, two political swing states that are rich in electoral votes.

“It’s pretty clear they’re trying to wake up American legislators, who are the only ones in government who can influence the president on this issue,” said Chad Bown, a trade expert at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Still, the E.U. says its response to Trump’s tariffs is designed to conform with World Trade Organization rules, signaling that Europe hopes to avoid a full-blown rupture with the unpredictable U.S. president.



Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/03/16/european-union-releases-10-page-list-of-potential-targets-for-retaliatory-tariffs-on-u-s-products/

[dalton99a]

1. Full list at:

http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2018/march/tradoc_156648.pdf

[CrispyQ]

5. That's a helluva list.

I hope IQ45 has to walk it all back. And I hope Kudlow is ruined.

[The Mouth]

2. Well, thankfull they aren't targeting states like my CA that are

trying to get rid of Cheeto Benito. Love the idea of targeting, as much as I feel sympathy for fellow Democrats stuck in areas with a high proportion of deplorables this at least makes some sense.

[Auggie]

3. CA grows a lot of rice. It's listed.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. CA rice is grown in Trumpanzee districts, also other states. . . . . nt

[Auggie]

7. Hey ... please don't shoot the fucking the messenger

Just sharing some info.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. I wasn't. I was augmenting, explaining. Europe would want to hurt tRump supporters. Carry on. . nt

[Auggie]

9. Got it. Understand, I've met my share of farm laborers in the San Joaquin Valley ...

they're not Trump supporters.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. No surprise about that. But many outside of that group are Trumpanzees. Those are red districts.

2016 Pres Elec Results

[The Mouth]

6. The rice farmers: growing a highly water intensive crop

in the middle of the desert and demanding that their highly wasteful methods of agriculture be subsidized... sounds about right... sad