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| ▲ | crossroadsguy 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Access to US market? Is that a joke you are trying to crack? An “access” that literally depends upon how loud the orange fool farted on the commode that morning — that access and that market? I mean do you really not see what’s happening or you are just being a nice contrarian? Because this baffles me. |
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| ▲ | micw 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Would be a good reason for the EU to start a 200% tariff for US software and cloud services then. |
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| ▲ | sssilver an hour ago | parent [-] | | How would this work? Wouldn't a reciprocal tariff with identical parameters by the US against EU tech companies completely obliterate EU tech landscape? | | |
| ▲ | microtonal an hour ago | parent [-] | | Most EU tech companies probably have primarily European customers (given that services export from the US to the EU is much larger than the other way around). Second, all those EU customers are looking for EU alternatives that do not have a huge tariff. Reciprocal tariffs would (for the EU) hurt export of goods much more, since that is where the EU has a large surplus. | | |
| ▲ | sssilver 42 minutes ago | parent [-] | | The number of tech companies matters less than their scale. SAP, Spotify, and Dassault Systèmes likely have more economic impact than ten thousand tiny software shops combined. And notably, all three derive a huge portion of their revenue from the US market. |
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| ▲ | happymellon 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Trade and tarriff relief are an option still. That surely is running out of steam. Everyone's got whiplash from trying to watch America and it's tariffs. How do you know it won't be applied anyway, or forgiven for whatever flavour of the day policy it changes to. There is very little point in conceding to it when you'll have another opportunity for something else that might be more amicable before the inks dry on that tariff. |
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| ▲ | riffraff an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Trade and tarriff relief are an option still Are they though? Trump tried to use them to get ownership of Greenland a few weeks ago and just gave up. Then he tried to bully Canada again, and also gave up again. I think at this point nobody takes his offers of relief or threats seriously anymore, since any deal you make can be invalidated a couple weeks later. |
