Krone says ‘alarming’ levies on about 400 goods including hair dryers and combine harvesters have forced pause

Krone says ‘alarming’ levies on about 400 goods including hair dryers and combine harvesters have forced pause

One of Europe’s biggest farm machinery companies, Krone, has been forced to pause exports of large equipment to the US because of “alarming” and little-known new tariffs that are hitting hundreds of products from knitting needles and hair dryers to combine harvesters.

Among the products on the steel derivatives list drawn up in consultation with US manufacturers, Donald Trump is taxing 407 specific products ranging from tiny embroidery stilettos to cooker hoods, barbecues, fridges, freezers, dishwashers, hair curling tongs, grills, elevators, bridge and railway structures, agriculture equipment and wind turbines.

It has meant that since 18 August, companies such as Krone and the construction company Liebherr in Germany have to provide an unprecedented level of detail to customs border authorities certifying the origin, weight and value of any steel in their products right down to nuts and bolts.

  • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Unfortunately, I am fairly certain that they will not learn anything from this either. Instead, they will probably prefer to assume that foreign manufacturers are also lying to them in order to maintain their completely absurd worldview.

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
      9·
      9 hours ago

      They convinced themselves that every other major government in the world, as well as every single scientist and most other people were lying to them about Covid.

      I remember extended family members going on about how it’s a hoax as they were dying in the hospital from it

      Some people will flip the universe inside out, upside down, and throw it in a blender to make their world view okay.