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by throwaway010718 2442 days ago
Does the U.S. president claim that the Chinese are paying the tariffs on the EU products too ? I still can't tell if our all tactics and no strategy president understands how tariffs works.
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He's running the US like he runs all his businesses: into the ground.
“The US first filed the case in 2004, arguing that cheap European loans for Airbus amounted to illegal state subsidies.“

“The US was given the go-ahead to impose tariffs on $7.5bn (£6.1bn) of goods it imports from the EU following a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling on Wednesday.”

The WTO imposed the tariffs against the EU due to a recent ruling.

The US did not have to impose the tariffs under WTO but chose to.