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Are you ready for a war...

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  • 31-05-2018 10:20pm
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    ygolometsipe
    Registered Users Posts: 882 ✭✭✭


    A trade war....

    It's really ramping up now. It's odd how only 2 or so years ago we had the possibility of TTIP now it's even worse.

    It will definitely cause a market crash if it happens so what US products will you miss most.

    I think clothes will annoy me most.
    Not really sure what else comes from the US.

    Disclaimer: I am definitely not a bureaucrat trying to figure out what to ban :)


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    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,553 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    This is what happens when you put a weapons grade moron in the White House.

    It is what it is. The EU will put in place retaliation measures.


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    demanufactured
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    Wanderer78
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    ygolometsipe wrote:
    It's really ramping up now. It's odd how only 2 or so years ago we had the possibility of TTIP now it's even worse.


    You d be naive to think the ttip has gone away


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    gifted
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    Anyone going to the chipper?


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    somefeen
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    I guess if it applied to intellectual property and art then films are ****ed.

    The US doesn't seem to manufacture much in the way of consumer products but I reckon a lot of specialised equipment comes from there


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    No I wouldn’t even be ready for another snow day, not a loaf of bread in the house


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    kneemos
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    Only thing made in America we get here are tourists.


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    Del2005
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    ygolometsipe wrote: »
    A trade war....

    It's really ramping up now. It's odd how only 2 or so years ago we had the possibility of TTIP now it's even worse.

    It will definitely cause a market crash if it happens so what US products will you miss most.

    I think clothes will annoy me most.
    Not really sure what else comes from the US.

    Disclaimer: I am definitely not a bureaucrat trying to figure out what to ban :)

    The US making clothes! It's all made in Mexico or Asia.

    The reason he's introduced the tarrifs is because we don't buy US made products. So it won't affect us.


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    #10
    badtoro
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    Tell Trump to go **** himself.

    Let his golf course fall into the Atlantic.


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    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,934 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    badtoro wrote:
    Let his golf course fall into the Atlantic.

    Better still, let's go down there and push it into the sea


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    badtoro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 482 ✭✭badtoro


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    Better still, let's go down there and push it into the sea

    Hell no, let it happen slowly! I'm not gonna be his plaster puller.


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    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,934 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    badtoro wrote:
    Hell no, let it happen slowly! I'm not gonna be his plaster puller.


    If all of us went down, and just pushed the ****er into the sea, job done


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    ygolometsipe
    Registered Users Posts: 882 ✭✭✭ygolometsipe


    somefeen wrote: »
    I guess if it applied to intellectual property and art then films are ****ed.

    The US doesn't seem to manufacture much in the way of consumer products but I reckon a lot of specialised equipment comes from there

    Ha we could do without more fffin superhero moves....

    Jack Daniels will be missed although jameson is superior so I suppose no loss there :)

    Trump will bring about the apocalypse yet.


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    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    The Americans suck in far more than they export, what does the USA export that actually matters?


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    Junkyard Tom
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    Nord Stream 2.


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    Snotty
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    They export bugger all that we need, maybe some specialised drugs but that is it


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    jimmycrackcorm
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote:
    It is what it is. The EU will put in place retaliation measures.


    Indeed, on orange juice, Harley motorbikes and Jack Daniels. All products from the key states that effectively decide who the next US president will be...


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    tigerboon
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    jimmycrackcorm wrote: »
    Indeed, on orange juice, Harley motorbikes and Jack Daniels. All products from the key states that effectively decide who the next US president will be...

    The hard drinking european biker must feel a bit hard done by.
    It's a big issue because it hits our German over lords directly. If there was a tarriff on Italian olives would we all be in a tizzy?
    If your unemployed in the American rust belt then surely this is the best news in years. Why are they importing steel and their own mills and workers lying idle? Trump got votes for promising to sort this out


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    Phoebas
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    tigerboon wrote: »
    Why are they importing steel and their own mills and workers lying idle? Trump got votes for promising to sort this out

    Because it seems that their own steel workers can't compete with European, Japanese or Canadian steel workers, who Trump has imposed tarrifs on.

    The tarrifs don't 'sort this out'.


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    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,440 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Will all the black midgets be fighting all the white midgets?


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    Larbre34
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    American steel is shyte by all accounts. Come to think of it, leaving aside some software and microchips, American consumer products are dreadful. Detroit autos, heaps; food ingredients, disgusting; appliances, ever used a Magnavox or Westinghouse anything??

    Bourbon and bikes. God bless America.


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    gooch2k9
    Registered Users Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭gooch2k9


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Will all the black midgets be fighting all the white midgets?

    I'm fighting with the Vietnamese!


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    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,865 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    Bourbon and bikes. God bless America.

    Maybe just the bourbon.

    The bikes are overrated noisy antiques.


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    China is flexing it's economic muscles and the US is going "shields up", which means everyone is trying to do a deal with the EU instead. The US is triggering reactions from China, the EU and their NAFTA partners Canada and Mexico, and others.


    And the UK is completely on it's own, needing to import food and energy with zero trade deals, in less than 300 days.


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    jimmycrackcorm wrote: »
    Indeed, on orange juice, Harley motorbikes and Jack Daniels. All products from the key states that effectively decide who the next US president will be...
    China was leaning on Soya and other products from states that switched to Trump.

    them boys don't miss a trick.


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    testicles
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    TallGlass
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    Larbre34 wrote: »
    food ingredients.

    Careful now, that big US company Monsanto owns right to pretty much every seed on the planet, and if it doesn't it's creating strains to wipe the other strains out.

    The Americans are an awful bunch of lads and a have great ideas at the same time.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Any products made from non sustainable palm tree oil would be an excellent start


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    #30
    bodhrandude
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    More like a moth war with me at the moment :mad::(

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    Capt'n Midnight
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    bodhrandude wrote: »
    More like a moth war with me at the moment :mad::(
    Haver you tried negotiating with them ?

    It'll be over once they see the light.


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