Donald is again mistaking commerce for extorsion. People buy your wares if they fit their needs and if the price is right. This is commerce. " If you don't buy our cars, bad things will happen to you " is extorsion.
What a genius businessman.
this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2024
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Based on experience from American car manufacturing since the 1980s, even worse things will happen if we do buy their cars.
As an European, yes please. First of all carmakers have too much power, so hurting them is always good.
And a modicum of de-globalization would be good, force countries to create their own industries in important fields and stop shipping stuff all over the world 10 times
that’s not how tariffs work, though. American companies that would like to import a tariffed commodity would have to pay the tariff to the IRS (or some other governmental body).
So instead of making trade expensive for the „nice European little countries“ it will likely get more expensive for the „nice American little people“.
It is both. Increase the costs of doing business -> price goes up and demand goes down. BotH local customers and external company loose.
This can be sensible if you need to protect a small economy so that the customers profit from having work and businesses grow to become competitive. E.g. all the industrialized nations had protectionist measure to indistrialize and then pushing "free trade" after was a ploy to keep emerging economies down and their natural ressources easily exploitable.
Between two industrialized (or post industrial) economies this does not make sense.
Ford is an American brand that sells cars in Europe. Except they don't sell American Fords that won't fit on small roads, or where the engine needs 20l/100km.
Unfortunately, they do get imported.
There’s an F150 driving around my area, the stupid sumbitch can’t park it anywhere, not even in front of his own garage, so he’s usually parked on the sidewalk. But at least he has compensated for his tiny self esteem I guess.
Ford has two manufacturing facilities in germany.
But do they make the American models? Doubtful.
They don't, of course. Their best selling cars in Germany are the Focus, the Kuga and the Puma, none of which exceeds 4.45m of length.
EDIT: Just noticed - they don't even sell any of those in the US, probably all too small.
careful mentioning the Ford Focus around Germans online
One of the few new Ameircan Fords you'll sometimes see on the roads in Europe is the electric Mustang. It's kinda hilariously out of place - next to smaller European cars it looks more like they attempted to design a monster truck than a sports car.
The company is called For of Europe and they have pretty much everything in Europe these days. For example the Ford Focus was developed in Europe. So it really is just the brand. Everything else is pretty much European.
Of course we don't buy your fucking corn syrup, dotard.
He's gonna supercharge inflation, isn't he.
He did last time, so… yes.
What is actually exported from the US to Europe? Everything comes from Asia even if it’s branded by a US corp.
Economic murder-suicide pact
And they'll retaliate against States that voted Republican, just like last time
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