The deal includes $600bn (£446bn) of EU investments in the US, and the bloc will buy $750bn (£558bn) of US energy and also purchase American military equipment.

Mr Trump said: “I think it’s great that we made a deal today instead of playing games and maybe not making a deal at all.”

He said: “We are agreeing that the tariff… for automobiles and everything else will be a straight across tariff of 15%.” However, the 15% baseline rate would not apply to steel and aluminium, for which a 50% tariff would stay in place.

  • mathemachristian[he]@lemmy.ml
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    24 hours ago

    Thats why i said less profits and not no profits. If they could have sold it for $115 they would have. There might be some price gouging using the tariffs as an excuse but its not gonna be such an effect across the board i dont think.

    What I was thinking of was an item with a >15% profit margin now being less but not necessarily unprofitable.

    If there is no profit to be made then yeah all the previous profits will go into the hostile countrys private sector since the gap is gonna be closed by domestic companies which is what trump means when he says that tariffs will bring jobs back.