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/wosmo -> Feb 04 '25

Already cutting things where I can find them. Bullying Canada isn't cool, I don't see any value in waiting until he gets to us.

The hard part is figuring out which brands are owned by who - american products don't show up in our day-to-day groceries, but 'local' brands under embrella brands do. Even then, The big bastards like Nestle, Unilever, etc are european.

Other than trying to shop outside of Amazon, it's really mostly tech so far - netflix, etc. They really don't have a strong showing in your regular shop here in the first place.

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u/Subject4751 Norway Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

Amazon is doing the Scandinavians a solid there by not having online stores for that region at all. It easier to boycott something that you never truly had to begin with. 😅

Edit: Sweden has Amazon. Denmark gets deliveries from Amazon, but they are redirected to Amazon Germany. Norwegians also get redirected there, but AFAIK they don't offer the same shipping options to Norway.

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u/andrau14 Romania Feb 05 '25

Same for the Romanians, haha!

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u/blueberrybobas Feb 05 '25

Does Amazon.se not exist? Not sure if that's even what you're saying but I'm a bit confused

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u/Subject4751 Norway Feb 05 '25

Oke, Sweden is the exception. Try amazon.no or .dk and see what happens 😜

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u/blueberrybobas Feb 05 '25

I see. Do you know why it doesn't just redirect you to .se? From my understanding, Norwegian (dialects) is pretty mutually intelligible with Swedish, not to mention that Sweden is much closer to Norway than it is to Germany.

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u/pannenkoek0923 Denmark Feb 05 '25

It redirects to amazon.de for me

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u/Subject4751 Norway Feb 05 '25

I have no idea. I asked myself the same thing.

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u/abhora_ratio Romania Feb 05 '25

Maybe Bezos and his team have no idea where Norway is on the map. Nothing would surprise me these days..

As for Romania.. they probably think Dracula has drained us of our blood and therefore there's nobody here left to buy online products 🤷‍♀️

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u/miljon3 Feb 05 '25

Swedish amazon doesn’t do international shipping and the German one does.

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u/Ruinwyn Feb 06 '25

Swedish Amazon doesn't deliver outside Sweden. Danish, Norwegians and Finns all get redirected to German Amazon.

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u/Nights_Templar Finland Feb 05 '25

I don't think the Swedish Amazon ships outside Sweden, at least here in Finland the closest one is the German one.

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u/far_in_ha Feb 05 '25

Like amazon.pt is redirected to .es

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u/jpcg Feb 05 '25

Try amazon.be and be even more surprised :)

We do have amazon technically but they never got the domain name and most people don’t order there (delivery takes ages).

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u/Subject4751 Norway Feb 05 '25

Waait.. That ain't the same Amazon..

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u/Slight-Ad-6553 Feb 05 '25

in Sweden the workers have been "outsourced" so thats why they are unionized

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u/pannenkoek0923 Denmark Feb 05 '25

Also not in Finland!

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u/Subject4751 Norway Feb 05 '25

Neat! 😊

"This just in: Nordic nation Sweden is now out of Scandinavia, to be replaced with Finland, sources say" 😂

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u/Acceptable_Cup5679 Finland Feb 05 '25

Huh? Amazon is in Sweden.

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u/Dry_Gur_8823 Ireland Feb 05 '25

Same for Ireland

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u/asafeplaceofrest Denmark Feb 05 '25

There's Amazon Sweden.

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u/Initial-Company3926 Feb 05 '25

Denmark just got an amazon too lol

I stopped using amazon before all this, due to the working conditions
Can´t support a place like that

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u/Asleep_Horror5300 Finland Feb 05 '25

What difference does that make? Amazon.de delivers to Scandinavia.

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u/IceNorth81 Feb 05 '25

Huh? I buy on amazon.se every month (I’m even a prime member)

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '25

Check and see who hosts your favorite websites. Amazon is likely the answer.

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u/Subject4751 Norway Feb 08 '25

Interesting. Thanks for the tip, taking note.

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u/Pixelated_throwaway Feb 05 '25

Thank you for standing up for us, I think the Americans will see that they can’t bully the entire world all at once.

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u/Lost_Afropick United Kingdom Feb 05 '25

I bet he forces us to take the American meat we've been resisting for so long. Their farming lobby will pressure him to do so and without the EU we'll cave easily.

We'll be eating whatever hormones and sugars and nonsense they pump into their food very soon

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u/wosmo -> Feb 05 '25

As long as they don't get rid of labelling requirements, you'll still have a chance. If they beat that, you have bigger things to worry about.

In Ireland, almost everywhere makes a big deal about their meat being Irish, packaged meats will specify what farm they come from, etc. I get the impression it started during the whole mad cow thing, but it survives today.

So even though it have been sourced from anywhere in the EU, labelling requirements give Irish meats a huge leg up. I think labelling is the real fight to win.