Danes boycott U.S. goods with fervor as others in Europe do so too

Apart from some clothes and guitars, products made in America are trash anyway.

Boycotts are ethically questionable. Half of Americans consider Trump to be little more than their oppressor.

Punishing individuals for what their government does in unjust. Would you want to be held responsible for what your government does?

I consider Trump to be contemptible slime, but I have no beef with the American dealers I buy from and will continue to buy from.

Unless there's a viable local alternative, boycotts are moronic. If you participate in the call, you are leemings leaping off the fake media cliffs.

Look at US tariiffs, it's designed to derisk from Chinese supply chain, and reshore manufacturing. NOT arbitrary boycott.

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Unless there's a viable local alternative, boycotts are moronic. If you participate in the call, you are leemings leaping off the fake media cliffs.

> Look at US tariiffs, it's designed to derisk from Chinese supply chain, and reshore manufacturing. NOT arbitrary boycott.

Hahahaha

I'm American and I agree that our President is an idiot. While I hate for honest American businesses to be harmed, I agree when our President does something stupid, the world needs to make it hurt until he gets the message and backs down. Nearly every day, Trump does a few stupid things, so keep up the pressure.

Sadly, we have ... let me check ... 1404 days until Trump's gone, baring some unfortunate situation. Make it hurt bad enough and Congress will act - er ... maybe. I have doubts.

Europe, please do what you must. It will bring prices down here for US made goods if they can't find buyers ex-USA.

The Europeans have a large trade surplus in goods (€157 billion in 2023), but a significant deficit in services (€109 billion), particularly in the digital sector.

EU's about to lose their $350 Billion US trade surplus with US

EU is falling apart, high taxes, high regulations and high tariffs. No wonder the EU is not growing and is politically re-aligning rapidly to the right. Socialism not working!

“a country closing in on itself,”

Yes, 100%. And it's pathetic.

It has indeed become difficult to like the US. I was shopping for a bottle of wine last Friday and I couldn't bear buying a US one and ended up getting a Chile wine. Silly, I know, but Trump and everything has really left a bad taste.

These boycots are going to gain traction in Japan too once Trump starts hitting it with tariffs too.

Fortunately its pretty easy to avoid most American products and brands here since most have either domestic or non-US foreign alternatives.

Trump has single-handedly turned public opinion in the rest of the world (with a few exceptions like Russia) so hard against the US that all American brands and products now have a kind of stain attached to them in the minds of consumers.

For some of those (Tesla) its well-deserved, for others they are just getting caught in the cross-fire of a fight they didn't want in the first place and you can feel a bit of sympathy for them.

I'm not happy that its come to this, but I will not be buying American for the foreseeable future.

@ GBR48 'Punishing individuals for what their government does in unjust. Would you want to be held responsible for what your government does?'

You've kind of hit the nail here and are exposing the failure of Democracy; because an freely elected Government should be doing exactly what the individual collective of the society wants.

Punishing individuals for what their government does in unjust. Would you want to be held responsible for what your government does?

No, but this has been the fate and illegal punishment of the children, women and men of Gaza and the West Bank meted out by rogue self-styled democratic governments. The Danes are being driven berserk by Trump's autarkic fantasies of Lebensraum. Let's hope other countries can join in to chasten the man-child in the world's woodshed.

@grund

There is nothing silly about buying Chile wine, particularly as most American wine contains glyphosate (weedkiller)

Chile has some tasty wines. Don't feel bad drinking good wine regardless of where it is produced, if it is in your desired price range.

what the individual collective of the society wants.

Talk about a contradiction of terms.

Ozempic from Denmark.

EU is falling apart, high taxes, high regulations and high tariffs. No wonder the EU is not growing and is politically re-aligning rapidly to the right. Socialism not working!

Why are more countries waiting to join? The EU is not socialist.

'm American and I agree that our President is an idiot. While I hate for honest American businesses to be harmed, I agree when our President does something stupid, the world needs to make it hurt until he gets the message and backs down. Nearly every day, Trump does a few stupid things, so keep up the pressure.

I'm an American and the term "honest American businesses" is the non-sequitur of the century. There are precious few honest business in America. A few really small mom and pop businesses are maybe honest, but not all, but once you get over 50 employees they are all uniformly crooked, cheating the customer, cheating their employees, the tax man, violating labor laws, pollution laws and occupational safety laws. These business people voted overwhelmingly for the fat bleeding orange hemorrhoid, let them suffer the consequences. Boycott the daylights out of these miserable companies. Make them hurt. They genuflected to the bleeding orange hemorrhoid, let them all suffer. No sympathy for them.

There is nothing silly about buying Chile wine, particularly as most American wine contains glyphosate (weedkiller)

Agricultural products in the EU likewise have trace amounts of glyphosphates, including French and Italian wines. But not limited to these. Grain growers on both sides of the Atlantic use glyphosphates on their crops and it ubiquitous for killing weeds alongside highways, railroad tracks, on playgrounds and schools, sidewalks and the like.

This is good news for me in USA.

Now I can buy unsold American goods, food and groceries at markdown prices at Grocery Outlet.

I will not buy any made-in-USA products and anyone with a brain should do so.

DJT frequently talks about how EU's essentially shutting out US producers, due to high tariff and non- tariff policies. It's a been a long-term trade deficit, he uses the term "over 300 $billion or 350 $billion in 2024"

Whatever the amount, it's not Fair in DJT's view and so reciprocal tariffs will go into effect, to include non-tariff costs and barriers like the VAT tax etc.

Plus, due to DJT Policy to re-industrialize, high tariffs, starting at 25% and likely higher in near term, will go into effect regarding, steel, aluminum, pharma, chips and autos to in courage reshoring production to US.

US workers, especially working class, union and middle class all voted for DJT in large part due to his trade agenda of reciprocity and re-industrialization described above = nobody should be surprised DJT US Trade Policy, especially the citizens of Denmark

DJT frequently talks about how EU's essentially shutting out US producers, due to high tariff and non- tariff policies. It's a been a long-term trade deficit, he uses the term "over 300 $billion or 350 $billion in 2024"

Whatever the amount, it's not Fair in DJT's view and so reciprocal tariffs will go into effect, to include non-tariff costs and barriers like the VAT tax etc.

Plus, due to DJT Policy to Re-Industrialize, tariffs, starting at 25% and likely higher in near term, will go into effect regarding, steel, aluminum, pharma, chips and autos to encourage reshoring production to US.

US workers, especially working class, union and middle class all voted for DJT in large part due to his trade agenda of reciprocity and re-industrialization described above = nobody should be surprised at DJT's US Trade Policy, especially the citizens of Denmark

"Ivan Hansen, a retired Danish police officer, loaded up his basket at the supermarket, carefully checking each product to avoid buying anything made in the United States. No more Coca-Cola, no more California Zinfandel wine or almonds."

I thought Ivan was a Danish economist? Poor guy!

I thought Ivan was a Danish economist? Poor guy!

Have you read half of the books ever written on economics?

Hope the struggling people in the US don’t suffer from this.

Trump has stuffed his government with elites who may not have the interests of these people in mind.

Boycott them for Trumps stupidity but moreso for the CIAs meddling in other countries affairs and the sale of arms to the gen*ciders!

US will benefit from not continuing unfair trade with EU, DJT and his economic team are true US Fiduciaries, this change in trade policy to reciprocity is LONG overdue

Nope, American's definitely don't need EU stuff and will be fine buying domestic wine, cheese, clothes etc.

Wine: There are only three regions that make decent wine in the US... California being the first and producing near the 90% of the us production followed by Oregon and Arizona... there are other states that produces "wine" but based from the climate and soil conditions the resulted wine is not good (to say it politely).

Wine production in US is of 725 million gallons per year, and consumtion is 899 gallons per years (2023 period). That is already a defficit of nearly 170 million gallons. And unless US wineries decided not to export their wine that defficit will be greater.

Some sorts of wine will not be available in the US if imports are stopped... mainly Region Origin wines and sparklings, being the most representative Champagne, Whisky and some other spirits.

Natural cheese is something similar, Gruyere, roquefort, certain types of blue cheese, etc., will not be available for the US. It may be possible to create a copy of those cheeses but it will be that a copy considering that for some cases the production proccess for those cheeses involves environmental conditions and production knowledge that is not given to the outside.

Clothes... that sure it can be made in the US but with a cost... a high cost. Human work force will be needed and since the US government is going hard controling immigration, the labour would have to be US nationals whom will probably ask for an income FAR greater than what the average clothing worker has being recieving until know. Not to count that there will be a high demand of labour force for other industries so, salaries will have to be raised....

Only considering salary increses will mean the cost of clothing (and any other good made in the US) to increase in something around 10 to 20 times the current cost.

So, a bottle of an introductory (cheap) wine will may cost around 100 to 200 USD, a 500gr of gruyere cheese to put it on your pasta will be no less than 100 USD and a plain T-shirt something around 70 USD.

Not to say that olive oil will be a costly addition since the prodcution of olive oil requires similar conditions as for wine so you make one you loose production in the other.

And I am not taking in consideration any cost due to importing or production of raw material, machinery, logistics costs and many other items.

The other option to avoid paying those elevated cost will be to change your eating, clothing and generally all living habits.

I hope you get the idea.

I do not drink much wine but some in my family are really into it. It's California, followed by Oregon and then Washington for the best wine in the USA. A visit along the wine region on the Columbia River on the border of Oregon and Washington is a great vacation option.

California being the first and producing near the 90% of the us production followed by Oregon and Arizona.

@deanzaZZR

Washington wines I know about them but never drank any. Although wine taste varies from person to person, only based by climate and soil conditions, I think Washington wines will tend to be on the sweet side of wines (personally sweet wines are not for me), but then again I have not tasted them I could be wrong in that.

Production wise, I could be wrong but Arizona has a bigger production area about 114,000 sq. miles, compared to Washington (about 66,500 sq miles) so the production volume should be greater in Arizona.

Now, maybe Washington wine production is focues more in table wines while Arizona more in bulk wines, and that could be the difference on Washington being second as you say? Or simply Arizona has a lower production volume dispite it area? Sorry, I didn't look deep in that field.

EU is falling apart, high taxes, high regulations and high tariffs. No wonder the EU is not growing and is politically re-aligning rapidly to the right. Socialism not working!

US is falling apart, high taxes and growing fast, deregulation to the point of cheaters prospering, high tariffs. No wonder US is not growing and has politically realigned with right wing extremists. Common sense not wanted in America.

No more Tobasco sauce for me, Ill buy Asian sriracha. Swap out US bourbon for local Aussie bourbon (Tiger Snake and NED) and anything else that I previously purchased with (Proudly made in the USA) will be on a long 4 year vacation.

Imagine putting tariffs on a nation you already have a decades long surplus with, and a free trade agreement that ensures 99% of US goods are tariff free. Stupidity like that deserves a strong reply. So no more American goods in my house for 4 years. Asia and Europe and home town goods are fine and dandy.

It is America's loss. Trump once again killing American prospects and raising taxes on middle and lower classes while giving tax relief to the rich, because they seem to need it more than any other citizen...MAGA = (Make Americans Grovel Again).

Imagine putting all your strategic eggs in the American basket. You reap what you sow.

America voted for suffering when they elected a clown. Totally deserve all the bad things coming their way.

Unless you’re an alkie’, nothing is made in USA any more, everything is coming from china and we have ourselves to blame for that.

Unless you’re an alkie’, nothing is made in USA any more, everything is coming from china and we have ourselves to blame for that.

Not completely true. In the off season we get big delicious Nectarines, Oranges and other fruits from USA. I just wont be buying any for the foreseeable future.

America does produce plenty from tools, cars, white goods, foods, booze, clothes and more. They will just have to buy their own products and not bother trying to export anything. Good way to end up a poor and friendless country. Trumps golden vision no doubt.

"Have you read half of the books ever written on economics?"

Do you need to read economic books to know a great wine for a good price?

"America does produce plenty from tools, cars, white goods, foods, booze, clothes and more. They will just have to buy their own products and not bother trying to export anything. Good way to end up a poor and friendless."

If trade in America is managed properly internally US is large enough to sustain itself.

@HopeSpringsEternal

EU is falling apart, high taxes, high regulations and high tariffs. No wonder the EU is not growing and is politically re-aligning rapidly to the right. Socialism not working!

I know that trying to educate you is a waste of time, but I'll give it a shot anyway. NO ... the EU is not falling apart. Your tiny mind is being led astray by the garbage you listen to in your little disinformation bubble. On the contrary, your buffoon in the White House is making the EU come together more strongly than ever. (Open your eyes and ears!)

The countries of the EU are governed by parties mostly mildly left or mildly right (Italy and of course Hungary being exceptions)... a mixture, in other words. Socialism has hardly existed anywhere on the planet at government level for the past 50 years.

The countries in the EU that are the most socially conscious, although not outright socialists, are the Scandinavians. And guess who tops the list of the happiest countries in the world, year after year.... Yeah, them!

Trump has stuffed his government with elites who may not have the interests of these people in mind.

Jupiter's hiring policy is DEI for unqualified whites with a binary zero sum mindset. Nuance and complexity are beyond their grasp.

US is falling apart, high taxes and growing fast, 

And the lie persists. The US has one of the lowest tax burdens in the developed world. Fact. If you measure local, state and Federal revenues from all sources, that means every tax at every level of government in the US, as a proportion of GDP it is around 27-28% of GDP. The OECD average tax burden is around 36% of GDP. In any given year there are only two OECD members with consistently lower tax burdens, those bastions of economic progress Turkiye and Mexico. Occasionally South Korea sneaks in a percentage lower than the US. All the rest have higher tax burdens.

EU is falling apart, high taxes, high regulations and high tariffs. No wonder the EU is not growing and is politically re-aligning rapidly to the right. Socialism not working!

As an economist with a graduate education in the subject I have to disagree. In the 1970s and into the 1980s in some European nations there were certainly aspects of socialism in many nations, UK especially where the government had ownership stakes in many important industries. But since the creation of the EU all of that has changed. There was a mass privatization of previously government owned entities including things like postal systems, railroads, major power utilities, the energy sector, aircraft manufacturing, telecommunications and a raft of other industries.

If you look at industry consolidation trends in the US and EU, the EU has done a much better job of enforcing competition. In the US mergers and acquisitions have left major consumer markets dominated by two or three big firms creating widespread oligopoly across the US. The number of US corporations has declined by at least a third since 1980. The exact opposite has occurred in the EU and their market regulation is much stricter, something that irks Jupiter and Little Marco ( to effing bad I say ). And if you look at prices of European goods where Europe used to be expensive now it is the US that is expensive and Europe looks comparatively inexpensive, Switzerland being the outlier.

It's time for Americans to boycott imports of Dutch klompen - their shoe cobblers will feel the backlash

I will not buy any made-in-USA products and anyone with a brain should do so.

So you won't be buying a new phone or computer anytime soon. The most expensive parts of those are designed by American companies (Qualcomm, Nvidia, Intel and AMD). The chips can be manufactured in Taiwan or Mexico or Ireland or Israel or the US, but the highest paying jobs, for the chip designers, are American.

Lower-cost, lower-performance CPUs are still made in mainland China, so if you go for lower-end performance, you may get some Chinese-made CPUs. There are far too many Nvidia CPUs violating the Chinese ban. Trump isn't being effective enough on that aspect of his trade war.

DT: As for honest American Companies, I feel sorry that you've not worked for any. I have. I've worked at 8 different companies in my career. Not all of them were always treating their employees with the best intentions, but some were and my management chain 1-3 levels above were honest people at all of them. I only saw back-stabbing directly once and it wasn't in my management chain. I know that's not always the situation. Perhaps I've been lucky.

One of the companies where I contracted (never an employee) was one of the most hated companies in America at the time. Even I won't buy any of their telecom services, if I can avoid it. When I was a contractor, the company I actually worked for and got paid by was my own. Of course, I think that management was supremely honest! ;)