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EU retaliatory tariffs on raft of US goods go into force
[Ynet] The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
 is enforcing tariffs on $3.4 billion in US products as of Friday in retaliation to duties the Trump administration has put on European steel and aluminum.

The goods targeted include typical American products like bourbon, peanut butter,
...we used to bring peanut butter from home when we lived over there, because the only peanut butter available was a single brand of vile, separated stuff in the health food section — so I can’t imagine it’s become a big item...
and orange juice,
...for which Brazil is Germany’s main supplier...
in a way that seems designed to create political pressure on US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
 and senior US politicians.
In other words, this is only a shot across the American bow to encourage serious discussion rather than going straight to a tariff war.

Posted by: trailing wife 2018-06-23
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=516979