Hey Europe, how's it going. Let's make a deal. We'll give you 3 aluminium and 2 wood in exchange for 3 cheese and a tractor. Sound good?
Anybody have sheep? What about brick?
🎵 We built this city on wheeeeaaaat and stooooooone!🎵
Will trade sheep for spices or sugar.
Depends, what about the options? Can i have them in red with spolier and chrome wheels?
Good timing. EU is about to sanction the import of Russian aluminium.
And Trump might have accidentally solved the oil supply problem too
It's wild that the US thinks it can do all this stuff domestically with natural resources it doesn't even have.
99% of American bauxite is imported. Australia mined over 1000x more of it than the US did last year
It’s wild that the US thinks it can do all this stuff domestically with natural resources it doesn’t even have.
Witness the sound of me shrugging. Fuck around, find out and all that.
Australia mined over 1000x more of it than the US did last year
Don't give them ideas
Australia doesn't give a shit about trade with the US. They are less than 5% of our exports. They are the ones that lose in a trade war.
We care about trade with China and when China got petty and Trumpish we handled it fine by diversifying markets until they got over their hissy fit and returned to their senses.
Often the US is an aggressive competitor in our export markets and if they score some own goals in trade wars our exporters will take the advantage just like they do to us whenever they can.
The real problem is what this idiocy does to the global economy as that impacts everyone.
Yeah but we havent made the shit list yet. I'm literally counting the days.
If there's one good thing that'll hopefully come out of this mess, it's less reliance on the USA and Canada being brought closer to Europe.
I went out of my way to actively avoid American products the last few days, and I will continue to do so for the next 4 years.
Unfortunately, this will not be over in 4 years. The American people have proven that they are unreliable, cruel, and stupid.
Even if someone sane takes office in 4 years it will maybe just give us a 4 year pause until the next lunatic comes in. There can be no long term plans or cooperation with the USA.
The EU should throw tariffs at the US and start stepping up trade with the affected countries.
The rest of the world could show them
waswhat isolation really looks like.This is what I expect Canada to do. Turn to Europe. It only makes sense. They are a nato country after all. I hope they won't fold as easily as mexico. Specifically because of Trump's psuedo-subtle threats of making Canada the 51st state. He never said that about Mexico.
Yeah because Mexico has People with the wrong skin colour for him
They probably will. It happened last time.
That's a good point, the US has had tariff-happy presidents before...but it was a backwater, I guess a majority of americans wants to go back to being a backwater.
We already have a bunch of different import tariffs on stuff - it’s not new. Most goods from outside the EU/EEA/CH have at least a small percentage charged on them.
But, they’re selective and used to protect domestic industries- so for example, cheese from outside Europe has tariffs on it to protect the French and Spanish cheese industries. This is fine, because we can buy those European made cheeses for cheap.
This is different because we don’t apply enormous tariffs to stuff that mostly comes from abroad. That would be stupid.
Good. The European car industry needs it for EVs.
And this makes sanctioning Russia a LOT easier. Thanks Donnie!
Yeah, the EU has been eyeing Russian aluminum import sanctions for a while now. The timing couldn’t be better, cuz it’ll give them that last little push to finally do it.
I wish countries would actually issue sanctions against the US, but I guess this is second best
Yes!
Can’t wait to sink my teeth into sweet sweet freedom aluminum
