It likely won’t be a general percentage but percentages on specific, targeted items from MAGA states, so the damage is addressed appropriately, and on items EU citizens can provide elsewhere, so we don’t hurt.
In other words, to stand up against Donald Trump, the EU is being FORCED to tax its citizens potentially HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of Euros.
OR, the citizens of the EU will simply REFUSED TO BUY American (like Canada) and American businesses will lose BILLIONS OF DOLLARS in revenue all because — Trump.
Already boycotting American companies - Trump is doing so much damage to the American reputation. Prior to this I would happily spend a lot of my disposable income with American firms. This is all gone now…
I am sure they are doing the same thing that Canada has done. Tariff things that we can live without,or purchase from other countries. Then the orders stop coming for the US business. Here in Canada, this is what we are doing. Looking for the alternative.
I think most Europeans are happy to boycott U.S. products, so E.U. tariffs against the U.S. won’t adversely impact E.U. folk that much.
What Trump doesn’t get is that the U.S. needs the world more than the world needs the U.S.
I can sure tell you that Canadians felt sooooo horribly betrayed by tRump and this chaos he has done to the world. We are so happy to look at our travel/vacation plans and not give any of our dollars to the US
And find alternatives for our groceries. We are shopping local more than ever. #BoycottUSA
If I understand it correctly, tariffs increase the cost of goods in the importing country. Why then do countries impose tariffs to combat Trump's? They're only hurting their own citizens. Replies stating I'm an economic imbecile are acceptable.
You hurt our export sales, we’ll hurt yours. It’s retaliation. That said, some countries (like Australia) won’t retaliate because we know it will hurt consumers who have to buy American imports.
It’s so the people in the importing country don’t buy the tariffed goods. The exporters are stuck with unsold product. The importing country’s own products get purchased instead because they’re cheaper. Or the importing country makes trade deals with other nations/makes their own goods if possible.
I guess we’ll find out. Canada (my country) is doing everything it can to avoid buying American goods & make new trade agreements with other nations. Trade wars are long and brutal though. And sometimes industries that are tariffed never recover. Hopefully we’ll all make it through this. Except him.
I have read that grocery stores are donating unsold American produce to food banks so that someone can use the unwanted food. Canada has united around this issue like nothing I’ve ever seen before.
they need to do more. trump is planning to partner with russia. russia wants the gas infrastructure of ukraine. trumps ok with it. He is partnering with russia and leaving europe behind. europe needs to get him out of NATO. And move quickly. Probably with china, canada, mexico.
It's the only language the people in this government understand. The Billionaire Class thought they could bully the world into feeding their insatiable greed. Instead of the rest of the world has chosen to tell the United States to go fuck itself and it is absolutely beautiful. #FAFO
Trumps plan to destroy American small businesses and mid sized so only his cronies can have a business and all the profits from it. His plan all along...destroy people, destroy middle class, prop up wealthy & bring in russian oligarchs with 5M gold cards to buy up American businesses, land, homes
But don’t worry, fox entertainment is busy broadcasting graphics showing that the stock market is still higher than it was 20 years ago so why should we be panicking?!
What would the mothers of truth say now?
Lorde, Morrison, Le Guin, Walker, Tubman—
They’d call this what it is: tyranny cloaked in flags.
They’d warn: Silence is surrender.
This is the edge of history.
Resist. Remember. Reimagine.
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When the history is written, people will say this week was the one when the fortunes of Mr Trump turned for the worse. When the $$ effects of his tariffs started to be felt and when the chaos he created started to turn even his loyal supporters against him.
What really gets me is ‘prices are gonna rise but in the future they’ll be astronomically lower’ is gonna perpetuate the cycle of democrats fixing the economy just for republicans to take credit. No matter what the next democrat does to improve the economy they will credit trump for it.
It's just beginning, and based on trump's presser on Air Force One, he still does not understand 1) Economic 101, and 2) he is stubbornly numb as hell...
Starmer has no balls to stand up to Trump, so here's a few US brands to boycott.
McDonalds
Burger King
Starbucks
Hershey's
Budweiser
Coca Cola
Pepsi
Green Giant
Campbell
Haagen Daz
Uncle Ben
Old El Paso
Krispy Kreme
Hellman's
Spam
Phillidelphia Cheese
Tesla
Amazon
Meta
#BoycottUSA
Yes he does- he is working with the EU of tariffs so that everyone is on the same page, give him some respect it’s not his fault the UK came out of the EU that’s on the people period.
Not all of those companies you listed support the flaming yams policies. Boycott the ones that donated to his campaign and the ones that are in red states. More effective targeting
As the tariffs automatically hike the prices of these items to stupid-to-buy levels, people will favour properly-priced locally produced alternatives naturally. Even the good-guy American goods will probably just start disappearing from our shopping lists, and that's Trump's fault.
Doh…Well I guess shrinking US manufacturing to domestic sales only will make prices higher on us domestic consumers. Another way we get F’d by this stupid administration.
Another Monday morning free fall in the stock market to come. I confess that on Friday, I bought a gallon of good Spanish olive oil and cases of Rioja and Bordeaux. My petty inconveniences pale against what American families will face if we leave this dirty bastard in office.
When the EU said they would put a 50% tariff on bourbon Trump threatened to increase tariffs to 200%. So yeah, the orange idiot thinks this dumb strategy will do anything positive.
If he really wants counties to manufacture in the US, how will the input cost & salaries not increase costs significantly. There will simply be a gap in the market that will be filled outside the US. Nobody will buy $260 sneakers that cost $160 now. Good luck with that Trump.
Isn’t this old news from weeks ago? I have not heard of any new tariffs added by the EU. Any announcement of retaliatory tariffs was supposed to be in the coming week.
America is going to run out of food so fast. What little there will be will be too expensive for the average person. I’m surprised I haven’t seen anyone talking about the incoming famine…
If I recall correctly, there was a point where Germany’s inflation went supernova where it reached something like 4 TRILLION Deutsche Marks to one U.S. dollar.
Americans about to all go on the RFK Jr. cleanse 😂 I guess if they kick their caffeine addictions now they may be able to avoid the mental health/addictions work camps, lol.
Got my garden planted and stocked up on coffee, enough to for a year....I knew this might happen. The people on the right are in shock, I am not.....always be prepared for anything. Gonna sit back with a good cup of coffee and watch this clown show burn to the ground🤣🤣
Sounds like you’ve created a beautiful oasis amid the chaos! 💖 For reals though, make sure your defences are strong because others will be coming to take what’s yours when things get desperate. God speed o7
I have 4 dogs, and I live in rural SW Virginia. All my neighbors are trumpers, and I am the lonely blue dot. We all have forearms here. We still take care of each other regardless of our politics. My neighbors have trump signs, and I have these flags Don't talk politics here. We prefer to be kind.
My great-great aunts were rum runners on the South Shore of #NovaScotia during prohibition, meeting suppliers from Boston in tiny little dinghies off the coast. Maybe it’s time to revive the family business! 🍺
👆🏾👇🏾”ÚLTIMA HORA: La Unión Europea impondrá aranceles a importaciones de EE. UU. por un valor de 28 mil millones de dólares en respuesta a los aranceles de Trump.”
Maybe we can go from cars to internet services! They are not counted at borders and levied with taxes!
Europe will start doing that soon. It is called the European "Bazooka "
The US companies have a worldwide monopoly on that.
Quit with the fake news. There's a proposal to do so being put forward today. And a vote on Wednesday. Stop acting like it's been agreed for your engagement
This is why Musk has been implying that America might be willing to go to zero tariffs against the EU. To try and motivate them into not doing things like this. He thinks if he kisses their asses enough, their citizens might buy more Tesla Swasticars.
I don't see members of the EU being that stupid.
Because of the 20% “reciprocal” tariffs which is only based on the 🇺🇸 trade deficit with 🇪🇺) Trump announced on >70% of 🇪🇺 exports to the USA 🇺🇸 on Wednesday (worth $585 bln in 2024) further tariffs are likely to follow.
I have been thinking the same.
I really believe that as soon as billionaires and corporate America start being sharply affected by Trump’s moroneconomics THEY will bring down Trump.
Everybody stop panicking and trust the 80-year-old indicted egomaniac who’s team accidentally added a reporter to a secret war-planning group chat, floated invading Canada and Greenland, tanked the economy with incoherent tariffs on penguins, & is now surrounded by sycophants too drunk to say “no.”
1000% blame on the 🟠 moron and the Republicans who are cowering in the corner afraid to do anything that might help the American people who gave them their job.
I wish the midterms were next week.
I think stopping the tariffs is an easy matter. However the damage to the US economy may remain for decades as the rest of the world’s markets stay connected but the US isolates itself. Americans could end up in a world of hurt for a long time.
Well done the EU. Pity the UK does not have the moral backbone to join the EU in implementing retaliatory tariffs. Trump is trying to divide and we are falling for it.
FYI this isn't even the response to April 2nd tariffs. This is retaliation to earlier tariffs just coming into effect. There might be further, stronger retaliation coming
This is how Trump moves the USA onto Putin's side of the divide; fabricated conflicts with democratic western allies. Where is McCarthy when he is finally relevant?
We will have to wait and see what the EU actually do as the article you shared is from last month.
The EU are likely to negotiate before implementing any tariffs and if any tariffs are applied they will likely hit the US services sector including banking which would impact the US more than the EU.
Read it again, it says they are due to come into effect this month. Like I said, these were a retaliation to the prior tariffs and were always meant to take effect now.
I believe that in the medium term, there will be no need to impose tariffs on US products. The ones Orangitler has imposed will cause the prices of US-made products to rise to the same level as imported ones. And this will make it impossible to be competitive in exports.
Save this bluit...
The EU, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and all the rest of the US's traditional allies and trading partners need to act as a bloc against Trump's ridiculous tariffs. Do not "negotiate" as individual states, work as a bloc!!!
We do. Far less travel there. 40% of Danes have avoided 🇺🇸 products in the last month. A Danish Cola has increased its sale by 1300% which is taken from the sale of Coca Cola. 95.000 are in a Facebook group to boycott 🇺🇸 goods (pop. 6 mil). Tesla sales way down.
Good! If the world does not stay strong against him, we all lose. As you can see from the protests, we are trying our hardest. He didn’t win by much. They blew up ballot boxes in many different states. Honestly, those were maybe the few votes that we needed! Millions are protesting
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It likely won’t be a general percentage but percentages on specific, targeted items from MAGA states, so the damage is addressed appropriately, and on items EU citizens can provide elsewhere, so we don’t hurt.
EU does tariffs the smart way.
OR, the citizens of the EU will simply REFUSED TO BUY American (like Canada) and American businesses will lose BILLIONS OF DOLLARS in revenue all because — Trump.
What Trump doesn’t get is that the U.S. needs the world more than the world needs the U.S.
And find alternatives for our groceries. We are shopping local more than ever. #BoycottUSA
Usually it’s done with tariffs that are high, like 200%-300% to really discourage the sales.
Normally done to protect an industry as well.
An extra 10%-25% may not do much to move the needle, but an extra 25% from the other side will have shoppers look elsewhere.
Can you send these 2 letters to your AG? Plz Reshare
https://www.tumblr.com/unitedwestand2025/780106283738103808/would-you-copy-paste-and-send-this-letter-to
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US - 340 million consumers
republicans are the stupidest fucking people on earth.
republicans know less than zero about economics or how anything works
Maybe the Red-hats can start producing the phones. How hard can it be?
We could be in another Black Monday scenario from 1987... 😳😳
https://bsky.app/profile/mortalbeing8.bsky.social/post/3lm6mtexzg22v
Lorde, Morrison, Le Guin, Walker, Tubman—
They’d call this what it is: tyranny cloaked in flags.
They’d warn: Silence is surrender.
This is the edge of history.
Resist. Remember. Reimagine.
#VoicesOfResistance
https://www.tumblr.com/unitedwestand2025/780106283738103808/would-you-copy-paste-and-send-this-letter-to
https://www.tumblr.com/unitedwestand2025/780110726256836608/here-is-another-letter-you-can-send-your-attorney?source=share
Did we start paying less after COVID when supply chains normalized? No - we did not. And companies pocketed that
We have low competition and “sticky menu” prices that maximize our willingness to pay
Canada started with $60 billion in counter-tariffs and added more when MAGA hit the auto sector.
McDonalds
Burger King
Starbucks
Hershey's
Budweiser
Coca Cola
Pepsi
Green Giant
Campbell
Haagen Daz
Uncle Ben
Old El Paso
Krispy Kreme
Hellman's
Spam
Phillidelphia Cheese
Tesla
Amazon
Meta
#BoycottUSA
“Well, you’re in luck. Spam is off the menu.”
It’s that obvious.
Can you send these 2 letters to your AG? Plz Reshare
https://www.tumblr.com/unitedwestand2025/780106283738103808/would-you-copy-paste-and-send-this-letter-to
https://www.tumblr.com/unitedwestand2025/780110726256836608/here-is-another-letter-you-can-send-your-attorney?source=share
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Only a complete idiot would have expected anything else!
Oh...
“Orange Monday”…?
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canada-us-tariffs-north-south-dakota-farmers-1.7502342
Or do we were told.
Europe will start doing that soon. It is called the European "Bazooka "
The US companies have a worldwide monopoly on that.
#democracyisdying but we WILL bring it back!
My favorite sign:
I don't see members of the EU being that stupid.
I will wait for official announcements.
USA. Resist. While you still can
The European Union 🇪🇺 is expected to approve a first set of retaliatory tariffs on imported US goods valued up to $28 billion.
These tariffs are mainly a first reaction to the 25% tariffs 🇺🇸 imposed on steel, aluminum & cars.
Cause it will hurt the Australian people.
We don't want to be like trump.
I really believe that as soon as billionaires and corporate America start being sharply affected by Trump’s moroneconomics THEY will bring down Trump.
I wish the midterms were next week.
The question is America, what are you going to do about it?
No decisions have yet been made about thoses customs duties.
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Together we will survive this madness!
The EU is acting as our shield 🛡 against the trump regime's plans for world domination and global bullying!
I also pray that crypto and meme stocks can't save them - because it's what they're counting on.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/eu-impose-counter-tariffs-over-28-billion-us-goods-2025-03-12/
The EU are likely to negotiate before implementing any tariffs and if any tariffs are applied they will likely hit the US services sector including banking which would impact the US more than the EU.
Save this bluit...
Happening all over Europe 💪
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