US Tells German Automakers That Tariffs Could Be Abandoned If Field Is Leveled In EU

US Tells German Automakers That Tariffs Could Be Abandoned If Field Is Leveled In EU
The U.S. ambassador to Germany told German automakers that President Donald Trump could abandon threats to impose tariffs on cars imported from the European Union in exchange for concessions, an industry source said on Thursday.

German daily Handelsblatt reported Ambassador Richard Grenell told executives from Daimler, Volkswagen and BMW on Wednesday that Trump would suspend tariff threats if the EU annulled duties on U.S. cars imported into the bloc.


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llaroollaroo - 7/5/2018 10:49:07 AM
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duh, who wants to buy American cars in Europe ?


llaroollaroo - 7/5/2018 11:37:50 AM
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ok, so ship the Mustang over and a few Jeeps lol


MDarringerMDarringer - 7/5/2018 3:58:37 PM
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Mustangs and Jeeps sell exceedingly well.

Camaros would too if they were also produced in RHD forms.

But when all is said and done, Europe is not a market of sustained relevance. That would be China.



TheSteveTheSteve - 7/5/2018 2:34:06 PM
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The way things are going, we can always sell American cars to our new friends in North Korea, Russia, and China. Ooops! China is pissed at us, too. The field of friends narrows still further.

The current state of affairs sure does look strange for all the "winning" going on in America :-/


MDarringerMDarringer - 7/5/2018 4:48:48 PM
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@JazzyJeff Because their tribe only wants hatred, bigotry, intolerance, bullying, and domestic terrorism i.e. everything that they say conservatives are yet aren't, but which the fascist Alt-Left says it isn't but most decidedly is. They come to destroy America out of some bizarre apologist credo.

This is their tribe in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFRHX6glTSM&feature=youtu.be


CarCrazedinCaliCarCrazedinCali - 7/6/2018 5:37:48 PM
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classless responses from the deplorables


rlbdckyrlbdcky - 7/5/2018 6:41:57 PM
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I've come to the conclusion that Jazzyjazz is actually a Russian bot and apparently a first generation version as it's nowhere near capable of passing a Turing test. Apparently the default setting is to spit out libiTARDs which isn't even the spelling preferred by US-born ignoratti.


MDarringerMDarringer - 7/5/2018 7:52:24 PM
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#flailing, you are.


TheSteveTheSteve - 7/6/2018 1:19:34 PM
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@rlbdcky: I believe the truth is sadder than your speculation of "Russian bots" amongst us. We've seen there are millions of Americans who can simply be described as adverse to facts, and not bright. Here's an example of Daffy "logic":

- Shares values with a president who calls American Nazi marchers "Fine People"
- Calls those who speak out *against* him "Nazis" and "fascists"


If you want to understanding the minds of these people, and why facts, reason, common sense, and even common decency don't (and can't) appeal to them, the following quote explains it well:
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"Donald Trump, champion and avatar of the shallow state, has won power because his supporters are threatened by what they don't understand, and what they don't understand is almost everything. Indeed, from evolution to data about our economy to the science of vaccines to the threats we face in the world, they reject vast subjects rooted in fact in order to have reality conform to their worldviews. They don't dig for truth; they skim the media for anything that makes them feel better about themselves. To many of them, knowledge is not a useful tool but a cunning barrier elites have created to keep power from the average man and woman."

- David Rothkopf
Professor of International Relations and Political Science
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Like #45 himself, the response you can expect from Daffies (Dirty Don's Devotees) is all-too-predictable: Denial, Deflection, and Derison. You'll see that in abundance, here on AutoSpies.

That's why I've chosen to stop feeding the trolls! Consider letting them squabble amongst themselves, rather than fueling their hateful, neo-fascist fury.


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