Atilla
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So, i'm not sure what's going on here. All looks like ramping up the rhetoric, but i'm pretty sure it's a battle the EU can't win given Trumps intransigent nature. Either way, not good for both sides, but especially bad for the EU, given that they are still on the fixing side of their broken economy, whereas the US is well on the mend side.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43270388
US is all bluster and paper tiger. Literally. I see the US economy as weak and will continue to weaken.
Think how it's going to compete with Airbus or in the motor industry or even in mobile devices. I'm sure most nations if they injected trillions or doubled deficits they'll have the same paper tiger economies.
Trump says China is raping US yet China's exports of steel to US is only 2% of imports so it's much a load of tosh as usual.
Reason why markets shied away is because market knows others will retaliate. EU already has.
US motor car industry already has 45% higher costs than Japanese. EU cars are more fuel efficient than big gas guzzlers. Where they are going with this is nowhere very fast. Technology gap narrowing and wars are down whilst military spending continues going up.
Trump thinks it can slap tariffs on with any country it has a trading deficit. It thinks it is going to reduce BoP deficit by reducing trade. That may work if other countries don't retaliate. I'd say we are going to see loss of markets for US goods which is what was happening anyway.
I think EU is already winning. Silk road is storming ahead. Next few decades EU trade will be to the East not West. Remember the banana wars. Here we go again.
Remember Bush and his steel tariffs... http://time.com/5180901/donald-trump-steel-aluminum-tariff/
What is more important as before, UK thinks leaving EU it will be able to establish free trading agreements with other countries. In face of US raising tariffs. This is so very important must weigh heavily on Brexiteers ideas about how they will compensate for increased burdens and WTO rules with EU. Hope it works out and they've done their calculations right.
To do something like this just when UK was doing so well and EU coming out of recession is absolute MADNESS.
Let's prepare our selves for hard times as the bloody difficult woman advises us.
Saw her full speech and I was dumb struck as to how daft it all sounded. She just kept repeating five tests and I still have no clue what they are.
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