Our "partners" in Europe are aghast that the United States would dare levy Tariffs on imported goods. Free trade, blah blah blah. My company, GreenArrays, Inc., sells its simple products all over the world. When we sell to the EU, two interesting things happen. Firstly, everything we ship to the EU zone has 20% VAT slapped on it before our customers may take delivery. That is nothing less than a de facto Tariff, but of course the EU does not deem it so. To the customers, the effect is the same: If they are in the EU, then they must pay 20% more for our products than do our customers who are not thusly afflicted. Secondly, in some countries, such as France and UK, there is an import tariff on the order of 17%. What, a Tariff on semiconductors from US manufacturers? Yep. So in some of those fine European countries our customers are assessed a whopping Tariff, because that is what it is, of nearly 40% on our chips. But we have Free Trade and our President is an evil bastard to levy Tariffs on some of the goods made in those countries.
I fervently hope that there is special torment compound in Purgatory reserved for hypocrites.
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