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jeltz04/03/20252 repliesview on HN

EU's fines are not tariffs. They are fines for breaking the law. EU companies are also fined.


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tomp04/03/2025

In fact, every EU big tech company has already been fined a trillion EUR! All 0 of them.

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pembrook04/03/2025

I see this devolving into a circular argument.

But you can rebrand tariffs as “fines” all you want.

When they’re applied wildly disproportionately to certain firms in a certain industry from a certain 3rd party country…it’s a defacto tariff.

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