German Foreign Minister Says Europeans Feel ‘Pity’ for American Consumers

RUSH EXCERPT:

BAERBOCK: "Well, we have mentioned that we Europeans feel also a bit of pity for American consumers because all the products I named now European countries, but also the countries from the Indo-Pacific, they have also now are new trades, tariffs. But the trade tariffs are actually extra taxes on American consumers. For example, like as I know, many Americans like a lot the beef from Australia and the beef. If the beef costs now extra 10% or other products which you cannot produce in the United States will cost extra 20% or extra, even 35%. I don‘t really get the logic why to harm American consumers, and this is why for our own consumers, we say it would be a win win situation if consumers in our democracies, between our friends over the Atlantic, in the United States, in Europe, pay the less prices, possibly which can products can be produced.”