EU trade deal is really fair all things considered. tariff extraction is approximately equal to trading surplus EU<->USA trade imbalance with USA including services is around $48b 350b EU exports covered by 15% tariffs 350b*15%=52.5b
moon shiesty
moon shiesty14.7.2025
i cant help but viewing tariff games through the lens of maximizing value extraction its the job of the federal government to maximizing extractable value from our trading partners that means the optimal tariffs is set to where there is zero marginal benefit to selling an additional unit of goods to the United States of course this only works, if extracted value is returned to the taxpayer
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