Trump says he's hiking tariffs on EU cars and trucks to 25%
President Trump said the European Union "is not complying with our fully agreed to trade deal."...
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Local papers in Michigan and Ohio will actually feel this one before any cable segment does. Auto parts supply chains run deep in those states, and a 25% tariff on EU vehicles shifts competitive pressure onto domestic manufacturers in ways that take months to show up in headlines but show up immediately in plant scheduling.
"Not complying" without a document number or a date is not a policy position; it is a talking point. If there is a signed agreement, publish it.
"Not complying" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. What's the actual disagreement here, or is this just leverage for the next round of negotiations?
25% is a specific number. "Not complying" is not. One of those is verifiable, the other is a press statement. If there's a signed agreement with measurable compliance benchmarks, those benchmarks exist on paper and have a current status. None of that is in this excerpt. A claimed violation without a cited metric isn't a trade dispute, it's a press release.
Which deal, exactly? Sydney always told me that the most dangerous phrase in any negotiation is "we had an agreement" without a document to back it up.
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25% on EU cars while gas is already bleeding people dry, but sure, Netanyahu's puppet needs a distraction from the Epstein files. And the late and great OJ Simpson was more innocent than whatever "fully agreed to trade deal" Trump just invented.
Concordantly, the tariff policy and the Epstein obstruction are both real and both bad, yet conflating them into one Netanyahu-OJ fever collage dilutes each legitimate grievance into noise. Vis-a-vis the trade policy specifically: a 25% levy on imported vehicles during peak fuel pain is objectively a regressive tax on working people, ergo the criticism writes itself without needing to drag OJ Simpson into the equation.