On duties (for future reference)

Last Sunday we had fun:

I return to the episode to enhance an educated guess of mine: since Trump has already arrived where he wanted to go (putting a duty on European products equal to the average European one, which is 10%, compared to the 2.5% average US duty before the intervention), it is very likely that at the end of the fateful ninety days (next July 4th, if I remember correctly) not a damn thing will happen.

The good ones tell me that Rai3 takes down our videos from YouTube, so I can't "embed" the broadcast, which you can find (I hope) here (you can also insert videos from Rumble but I don't feel like doing all the fussing on my cell phone while waiting for takeoff from Genoa)!

So, to recap: in less than three months I offer you the precious (because rare) opportunity to call me an idiot, which you can do if the apocalypse breaks out, or we will return to the den of information operators and remember the difference between those who, not because of their merit but because it happened that way, have studied that arid and boring subject that is international trade, and those who, when asked a technical question, can't answer anything other than "Trump crazy fascist poop poop!".

Three months go by quickly!

On this occasion, I also remind you of the medium-term conjecture on the TTIP . I don't like the "zero to zero" story at all and historically it has never been liked by the party in which I have the honor of serving, which has always been skeptical about the virtues of free trade. That story worries me much more, and it is one of the many occasions in which I really hope to be proven wrong by the facts. Alternatively, I will look for a house in the mountains with a spring, vegetable garden and chicken coop.

And now, we take off from GOA for FCO: the day is still long!

This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2025/04/sui-dazi-futura-memoria.html on Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:33:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.