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...Trade wars are fought between nations. But the damage is often about regions and politics. Which is exactly how things are developing when it comes to President Donald Trump’s forthcoming escalation with the European Union.

In the coming days the World Trade Organization is expected to give the U.S. the final go-ahead to apply punitive tariffs on $5 billion to $7 billion in imports from the EU, bringing to an end one leg of a nearly 15-year fight over aircraft subsidies.

The move will hurt the EU. But it could also be bad news for the good people of Alabama.

High on the list of imports to be targeted are Airbus fuselages and landing gear made in Europe that are shipped in and turned into A320 aircraft for the U.S. market in Mobile, Alabama. Depending on how high they are, the tariffs could threaten the economics of the Mobile operation, which Airbus is ironically in the process of expanding.

It’s not just planes in the firing line, of course. Trump has threatened to hit European carmakers with tariffs on imported cars and parts and faces a self-imposed deadline in November over whether to go ahead with those. That too could have repercussions across Alabama. Mercedes has had a plant near Tuscaloosa since the 1990s. The SUVs assembled there feature engines imported from Germany.

Alabama doesn’t have to look far to see how other states have been hit by the trade wars. Bourbon distillers in nearby Kentucky, home of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have been weathering the storm since the EU responded to Trump’s steel tariffs by targeting the whiskey for retaliatory duties.

That has actually turned Kentucky into a curious EU ally in the diplomatic fight against tariffs.

At a recent reception in Washington, the EU’s new ambassador to the U.S., Stavros Lambrinidis, hosted the mayor of Louisville, distillers and other Kentucky businesses as well as the state’s poet laureate at a good-natured, anti-tariff party fueled by Old Fashioneds and other bourbon cocktails...



--> Mitch McConnell ist ja bekanntlich Republikaner

--> er änderte seine Meinung dazu von Contra nach Pro zuletzt: https://www.westernjournal.com/mitch-mcconnell-backtracks-ta…

--> ich gehe mal davon aus, daß wenn die Zölle die US-Arbeitslosigkeit in die Höhe treiben, daß er dann wieder seine Meinung ändern wird ;)
 
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