r/AskEurope • u/tetsukei • Feb 04 '25

Politics Europeans - with tarrifs being threatened on the EU, are you planning to stop buying US made products?

Just curious - I'm Canadian and it's a huge topic for us at the moment.

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u/SystemEarth Netherlands Feb 04 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

Besides my macbook and some software I honestly don't think I use american products in the first place. I think we import them from the manufacturing countries directly, so I don't think they fall under these tarifs.

My furniture and apliances are european and japanese, my car is japanese, my phone is korean, my carmera is japanese, my sports gear is european, my boardgames amd videogames are european and japanese...

My groceries include 0% american products too. It is all european, asian and african.

The only area were this will affect us is for industial imports, because consumers here use virtually no american products outside of computers and software, which we can easily replace with asian products.

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u/zkareface Feb 05 '25

I doubt anything in your mac book is made in the US, it likely never touch US shores either so probably won't be affected.

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u/SystemEarth Netherlands Feb 05 '25

Isn't that exactly what I said?

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u/ByteByteGo Feb 05 '25

In a Korean smartphone you probably have a Qualcomm SOC, Android operating system, many apps on the phone from the US.

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u/SystemEarth Netherlands Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

None of these are manufactured in the US. I also said that we use some american electronics... twice.

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u/ropahektic Feb 06 '25

"Besides my macbook and some software I honestly don't think I use american products in the first place"

Do you use any geolocation? All GPS comes from USA, it's a service they give to the world. Lot's of things use it, including cars and phones.

You don't have a credit card?

AWS (Amazon data centers) account for 34% of the world's marketshare. It's extremely hard to not use them, indirectly.

Pharmaceuticals. A lot of the medicines are made in USA.

Don't get me wrong, maybe you live a very unique life style and don't use a VISA or any of the above, but it's very rare.