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zabzonk ◴[] No.43580060[source]
Strange. I, as a UK citizen, don't seem to buy almost any physical USA goods at all.
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graemep ◴[] No.43580371[source]
As an individual you would own consumer goods.

A lot of international trade is other goods. Think of how much the UK has paid for things like American aircraft, ships, machinery, or materials used in manufacturing. Our armed forces use a lot of American stuff, and often even British made things have American parts (and a lot of it is covered by ITAR, to an even greater extent than the rest of Europe).

People also tend to hugely underestimate the amount of British manufacturing for the same reason, and because of lot of it is Foreign branded (e.g. Nissan cars).

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1. zabzonk ◴[] No.43580468[source]
> As an individual you would own consumer goods.

Not American ones I don't.

Is Trump suggesting tariffs on incredibly over-priced and under-performing military and civil aircraft, when we can buy from Europe, or make our own?

To me it seems that the only things the USA sells us are horrible foods, and crap cars for fat people.

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2. amanaplanacanal ◴[] No.43580724[source]
How much American media do you consume? Things like movies, tv shows, or music? Or is it mostly home grown? That's America's export, along with software.
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3. zabzonk ◴[] No.43580991[source]
But no tariffs on them? And actually I mostly watch home grown stuff - can't stand US TV series.

Most of the software I use is open source, and again even if I pay for it, is there a tariff?