Trump brings presents to the NATO summit-
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/02/sacrebleu-ustr-lighthizer-announces-100-countervailing-duties-on-2-4-billion-of-french-products/
From the article-“After determining the value of the French tax on U.S. internet services at $2.4 billion; Lighthizer announces a 100% countervailing duty on a carefully selected $2.4 billion in French imports.
Obviously the agenda for the bilateral NATO meeting between U.S. President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron just changed. LOL, you have to love Team USA.
Oh, but wait, wait… it gets better….
We have to remember, THIS $2.4 billion U.S. tariff against France would be on top of the $7.5 billion (per year) countervailing duty recently won from the Airbus subsidy case in the WTO…. and by law France cannot retaliate.
Oh my, President Trump strolls into the NATO bilat with Macron while holding a $10 billion legally justified countervailing tariff position. How’d ya like ‘dem grapes?”
It’s bound to be an interesting meeting. Apart from the subsidies, the French farmers have always been heavily subsidised since the days of the Common Market, there is the issue of the co-existence of NATO and an EU army.
Nigel Farage has warned that NATO and a future EU army cannot coexist
Farage has been consistent in his warning about an EU army.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/12/03/farage-nato-eu-army-cannot-coexist/
Let the games begin…