US moves to put new tariffs on billions worth of EU imports
Source: AP
LONDON -- The United States wants to put tariffs on $11.2 billion worth of EU goods — from airplanes to Gouda cheese to olives — to offset what it says are unfair European subsidies for plane maker Airbus.
While the size of the tariffs is small compared with the hundreds of billions the U.S. and China are taxing in their trade war, it suggests a breakdown in talks with the European Union over trade at a time when the economy is already slowing sharply. The U.S. and EU have been negotiating since last year about how to avoid tariffs that President Donald Trump has wanted to impose to reduce a trade deficit with countries like Germany.
The U.S. Trade Representative's office released late Monday a list of EU products it would tax in anticipation of a ruling by the World Trade Organization this summer.
The U.S. had in 2004 complained to the WTO, which sets the rules for trade and settles disputes, that the EU was providing unfair support to Airbus. The WTO ruled in May last year that the EU had in fact provided some illegal subsidies to Airbus, hurting U.S. manufacturer Boeing.
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Republicans destroy the USA economy, and the Democrats have to rebuild it again, over and over again. Then Americans get complacent and vote Republican again, and Democrats have to come back again and rebuild the economy again . . .
are at logger heads..............................go fucking figure, and then to continue with his bed side of having a wet dream of chaos, he thinks tariffs solve everything, I guess zippy the traitor has nothing else to use, just so that he stays in the news .....................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough....................
