USA News and Poland - part 14

@cms neuf
No difficulty at all. Just saying what Trump is thinking.

@Lenka @Barney
Actually the VAT for importing US cars is varied from country to country. A friend of mine imports a lot of cars as a side hustle. He always brings them through Germany though because the VAT is lower than Poland.

VAT keeps a lot of companies out of Europe. It is a business killer. I know I wont buy a car new here for that reason alone I buy from private individuals. I also only buy property from developers pre or in early construction

@PolAmKrakow

That doesnt make sense, VAT is the same for everyone in the same country (Most countries have a tiered system) and makes no difference. If VAT is a business killer those businesses need better managers.

@Barney
Sorry I should have specified, used cars. This is the primary market for American made vehicles anyway. Germany VAT on this is 19%, Poland 23%. Anyone buying a new car from US in Poland is not wise anyway.

I know that. What we meant is that any business selling in particular country has the same rates.


Tru.p can think unicorns are real, doesn't mean sh*t.


In 99% of cases buying a new car is full stop not wise.


Doesn't that go under tax fraud?

@Lenka
That goes under being smart. Nothing illegal at all.

The tariff on European made cars imported to the US until April 2 is 2.5%, compared to Europes. Europes is 10% on US cars. Now tell me thats fair somehow, and its been this way for years. Its bvllshit, and now, trade will be forced to be balanced or Europe will lose the US market, which it cannot afford to do. Want to see the EU absolutely go insane? Let that 200% tariff on alcohol happen.

Polish intelligence obtained from American satellites? hahahahahahahahaha...

You are really funny, Mr. Geography...

If it was about fairness the tariffs would be equalised. They are not. So stop the BS

Good idea...Cut the single-senyence crap and tell us what tariffs should the US impose on EU cars, if any.

Start with a number followed by %. Then an essay - if you want.

150% but bicycles should be tariff-free.

@Lenka
Have to make up for lost time and lost revenu. Maybe you should stop your bvllshit.

@Novichok
I want to see Trump put the 200% on wine and alcohol immediately and see who breaks with the EU and does their own trade deal. I bet Italy moves first, then Portugal, and Spain. France will suffer because Macron is an idiot who will try to act tough.

If the US included Canada and Greenland, we would have everything we need to be the only country on the planet and would not need any foreign trade.

It's all colonialist garbage, plain and simple! First, the
US for generations wanted to play policeman to the world!

Now, we're going back to the days of the isolationists, the America Firsters,
once supported by such great "liberals" as the likes of
Norman Thomas.

Denmark already controls Greenland and the only other option
is Greenland's independence.

Don't like America first?
Fine. Where do you want the US to be on the scale from 1 to 100?


Bullshlt! If 100,000 Chinese military landed in Greenland, what would Denmark do?

Send a strongly worded memo to Xi?

A similar situation (or much more unrealistic at the moment) seems to be with the fees on the Chinese-made ships and reviving shipbuilding in the US: 🤔

reuters.com/markets/trumps-fees-chinese-ships-will-hurt-us-companies-maritime-executives-tell-2025-03-24/

"U.S. shipyards turn out fewer than 10 ships annually while China's produce 1,000, speakers said."

Meanwhile, industry executives said shipbuilders in Japan and Korea would struggle to meet demand in the years it would take U.S. shipyards to build up capacity.
Replacing existing China-built vessels is not like flipping a light switch, said Kathy Metcalf, CEO of the Chamber of Shipping of America.

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Enacting and implementing those fees could cease exports of U.S. coal within 60 days, putting $130 billion worth of shipments at risk, Thrasher said. He said the fee structure could add up to 35% to the delivered cost of U.S. coal, making it uncompetitive on the global market.
"The loss of direct and indirect jobs would be catastrophic," said Thrasher, who confirmed sending the letter and said he has not received a response."

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Btw, Poland's biggest (state-owned) maritime shipowner company (Polska Żegluga Morska) has 51 bulk carrier ships out of which 49 are Chinese-made. They already said they can't afford to pay those astronomical fees and will have to take their shipments elsewhere:

money.pl/gospodarka/usa-uderzaja-w-statki-z-chin-to-moze-byc-tez-cios-w-polska-zegluge-7138565808732864a.html

"The US is a strategic market for us, we've been sending shipments there for the last 50 years. It would be a big problem for us. We swim to the Great Lakes, also to Canaveral in Florida. We bring big cargos of artificial fertilizers to New Orleans, we also transport American grain. If the Americans block their ports for us with such cosmic fees, they will be stuck with that grain. They will have a problem themselves, because there won't be anyone to get their cargos out - says Krzysztof Gogol."


I doubt that the US tourist industry hates them though. Apparently the biggest tourist traffic to the US comes from Canada (which makes sense, as they're your neighbour) and American airlines have been already affected by the Canadian boycott.


Firstly, the US doesn't include Canada and Greenland, so go back to the planet Earth lol and, secondly, you're an ignorant idiot ;D

For the time being, for example, you need China, South Korea and Japan to buy your merchant ships.

"Three Asian countries dominate today's merchant shipbuilding: China, South Korea and Japan, which produce 90 percent of commercial ships. The China's share is 50 percent (in terms of the tonnage of merchant ships)."

No more than thinking Germans want a return to "Deutsch ist die Saar, Deutsch immerdar!" aka Germany first etc.
Everybody and his uncle wants to always be first in line or wherever, but it's simply not possible.

Trump already has Putin's support.

Where there's Putin support, there will be Xi support.

That's enough to ignore everyone else.

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No wonder, I can only imagine the glee at the Kremlin as they witness this rift between the US and the EU. It's in RuSSia's interest to weaken the West.


No, it isn't.

Putin's a puppet of Trump, fairly obvious.
Trump sows chaos and mayhem wherever he goes.
And now he wants to re-fashion the US Constitution???!
What a dirt bag.

No you can't. It is greater and more fabulous than you are even able to comprehend :)


We are prepared for some very angrily worded press releases from Starmer and Macron. Somehow we will survive.

Did you even see, Paulina, why the European peacekeeping idea collapsed? Macron and Starmer went to Trump to ask him to guarantee that if French and British peacekeepers get attacked by Russia, that America would back them up. Trump told them to f*ck off, and the idea died.

Literally the two most powerful countries on your continent, cannot do a peacekeeping operation without American guarantees. Now you are telling me that Europe will stop Trump and Putin from taking Greenland away from microscopic Denmark?


Dear Professor Lyzko, please explain how and why this is obvious? I think you opening some new terrain here.

Dear Pupil Bobko, just about every country wishes to curry favor with the US in return for any number of favors, usual financial, sometimes
territorial. You honestly think Putin is much different??

OK, I trust your word for it this one time :)))


Yes, sure, sure, just like the US will survive without those merchant ships :))))


Oh, so it's Trump-Putin Pact already? :)))

Ehem...

We would love to curry favor with you. Crawl around on our knees, and service your penis. One problem however - you have enforced more sanctions against us than against North Korea or Iran.

This is where I see the problem.

What kind of puppet relation is this, when you send weapons and money to kill your puppet?

Even the most slavish character would probably start having second thoughts, when his master beats him for no good reason - whether he's done well or bad. Don't you think?

Politics does make strange bedfellows:-)
Don't look for sense in international deal making,
which is all that politics is in the end.

Try mental swamp of unknown to him composition and depth.

That's what this azzhole does here daily.


Bobko, how dare you being that logical...This is almost hate speech as it discriminates against the stupid.


No shlt!

You expect human beings to make sense?

I don't know... I was expecting YOU to make sense, but that only shows what a stupid assh*le I am.

No. Just you. For a change...

I said it many times - I'll say it again - I f*cking hate you Lyzko.

Waste of air and space.

Go do something useful for once.

Bobko at his very best...

That was priceless.

Not proud of myself, but Lyzko for some reason awakens animal instincts in me.

Hated him since the day I arrived here.

Writing stuff just to write them. A stuffed toy contains more insight than Lyzko.

Wasting readers' time with his diarrhea.