alt Hacker NewsCurrent EU tariffs on US goods...
Product Category Tariff Rate
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Dairy Products (e.g., cheese, butter) Up to 50%
Processed Foods (e.g., chocolate, confectionery) 30-40%
Alcoholic Beverages (e.g., whiskey, bourbon) 25%
Steel and Aluminum Products 25%
Automobiles 10%
Industrial Goods 5-10%Replies
I wasn't touching the first two categories anyway, tariffs or no tariffs.
First one because I don't understand why i should risk a milk based product that has traveled for months across an ocean. Or even from another EU country, when I can buy stuff made in a 200 km radius around me.
Second one because afaik it's legal to call "chocolate" something that does not contain any actual cocoa in the US.
Weren’t things like that 25% steel and aluminum tariff added in response to Trump’s earlier tariffs, and allowed to lapse in 2020?
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2018/886/oj/eng
https://www.gtlaw.com/en/insights/2025/3/eu-to-impose-tariff...
Careful: The rate mentioned for alcoholic beverages (and confectionery) may include Excise Duty. Excise Duty usually have the non-discriminatory aspect of VAT : they’re also applied on local production.
Trump thinks VAT is comparable to a tariff. VATs are not directly comparable to tariffs.
Interesting that people are downvoting heavily those information. If reality does not match our view of the World, well, let's ignore reality. The truth is that EU kept higher tariffs on US goods than the other way, Trump is changing that and there is an outcry, because it was Trump who did that. If that was Kamala, nobody would even notice.
That's a bit misleading. Make no mistake, current US tariffs are UNIVERSAL. Not specific to e.g. chicken or automobiles or purebred horses. They cover absolutely everything. While you may see 38% or more tariff on chocolate, chocolate export to the EU from the US is hardly an important issue. And for dairy products, the tariff is a fixed euro amount per weight, not %.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_...
https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/search?origi...