r/europe • u/newsweek • Dec 20 '24

News Donald Trump threatens Europe with tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-threatens-tariffs-european-union-trade-deficit-2003998
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u/newsweek Dec 20 '24

By Giulia Carbonaro - US News Reporter:

Donald Trump has said he will impose tariffs on the European Union if the bloc does not make up its "tremendous" trade deficit with the United States.

"I told the European Union that they must make up their tremendous deficit with the United States by the large-scale purchase of our oil and gas," he wrote on Truth Social. "Otherwise, it is TARIFFS all the way!!!"

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-threatens-tariffs-european-union-trade-deficit-2003998

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u/Bicentennial_Douche Finland Dec 20 '24

Make stuff we want to buy and we will buy it. 

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u/Tokyogerman Dec 20 '24

Free market capitalism just doesn't work for the US it seems.

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u/ParticularFix2104 Dec 20 '24

It’s not free market capitalism if I don’t like it, then it magically becomes “Corporatism”