The USA has a perfectly valid point over trade with the EU and especially Germany. It is similar with the U.K. and the EU and Germany. There are trade imbalances. The one that really seems to grate with Trump is the sale of German cars which attract something like 2.5% import duty in the USA but American cars attract about 10% in the EU, and of course he’s still hacked off that Germany does not pay its way with the NATO alliance but expects the USA to protect it.
The EU is a protectionist racket with Germany and its economy at its heart. The EU likes to play the bully and it will be interesting to see how this plays out......
Although i see your point.
Thing is German cars will always sell in the US even if they raise the duty.
American cars won't sell in Europe. They are generally inferior to European made cars and the imported Asian cars to Europe. They have traditionally done a lot poorer. I bet it has nothing to do with duty either. I think there are probably only a few american made cars that would sell at all and they would be trucks and sports cars like the F150 truck and the mustang.
I bet if they increased the duty to 10% on German cars they would still sell here.
If they dropped the duty on American made cars to 2%, they would probably still struggle.
