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.

  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Yes, it’s totally the fault of -ism’s, and not at all from the weak pathetic oligarchic Dem party platform.

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        3 days ago

        That is just factually untrue. Which exit poll shows more men of color voting for Trump than Harris?

        • Gary Ghost@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          Not more than harris but many Latino men and some black men voted trump. They would rather have trump in office than a woman. Or they just didn’t bother voting at all