Trade Imbalance

[poliphilo]

 I caught a clip in which Alan Sugar (who fronts the British version of The Apprentice) was talking about the tariffs- and he confirmed what I've been thinking (but didn't like to mention because economics is not my subject) that Europe and the UK can't hit back because we import so very little from the USA. American cars are too big for our roads and American foods aren't to our liking. So what else might there be? Harley Davidsons and Kentucky Bourbon and, as he said, "they don't even touch the sides." 

Comments

[mtbc]

Quite. Of course, up here in Scotland they're thinking the whisky and the salmon but plenty of nice wild salmon off Alaska.

[poliphilo]

I should think that if the USA stops buying whisky and salmon these quality products will find other markets.

[paserbyp]

Software?

[poliphilo]

Yes, probably....