Port of Antwerp-Bruges figures show 15.9% drop in export of cars, vans, trucks and tractors to US
The Port of Antwerp-Bruges has been turned into a giant car park with thousands of cars, vans, trucks and tractors bound for the US sitting idle as manufacturers try to avert the worst of Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Figures released by the port show a 15.9% drop in the transport of new passenger cars and vans to the US in the first six months of 2025 compared with the same period last year, with a sharp decline emerging in May – one month after the US president announced his “liberation day” tariffs.
Exports of trucks and what they call “high and heavy equipment” is down by almost a third at 31.5%.
How do you mean? This is a result of American policies, that are most definitely harmful to USA. (and to the world)
Multiple economists have said that.
USA is losing influence, the dollar is weakened as a reserve currency, the American economy is expected to enter a recession if this continues for much longer. How is it obsessive to wonder why Americans chose this?
I mean your life is like dedicated to an obsession of the USA. It’s really unhealthy. Everything you do is focused on this schadenfreude with America. Meanwhile, ignoring the fascism growing in Europe because you aren’t really about being anti-fascist, you’re about dopamine.
Seems like you have an obsession with me?
Are you sure that’s healthy?
Nah, just got you tagged.
No not just tagged, you also react on it. I think I know who you are now. You are obsessed. When you showed your “evidence” last we debated this, you were downvoted into oblivion, and you still maintain this crap?
Do you think that when a person is downvoted that it makes them wrong?
It doesn’t make it wrong, but it means it probably is wrong more often than not. Especially when the downvote is overwhelming, and there are no or almost no upvotes, then it is a very strong indicator.
It has happened to me too, and has been cause for reflection, and has meant that I discovered I actually was wrong. None of us can be right all the time.
Like it or not, the US is the sole superpower at the moment. Chinas next in line for the throne as we fall. And that’s big news. Far bigger news than a couple of small countries in Europe fall to fascism. The fall of America will affect the entire world if they don’t act quickly to fix trade with the rest of the world. Y’all need to make deals to cut the cancer before it grows. And soon. Otherwise everything falls with us. Just make sure Germany doesn’t get infected.
While some people are gleefully watching the fall of the US (like that person), they are ignoring the world around them. You are totally right. And when China takes over…. Tanks for you! Tanks for you! Everyone gets a tank!
(My comments were very pointed at the user though, because they are a big jerk. )
Everyone has their own cope while dealing with this wildly new world we’re living in. Some people just choose to revel in it. Personally I feel numb to it, but I don’t blame people who are happy about it, especially 3rd world countries. Others? I feel probably don’t understand the full consequences of it yet. It’s like white suburban kids “feeling” the struggles of inner city youth in the early 90’s. They get the concept without feeling the effects. Yet, in this scenario, everyone is going to feel the effects.
Not everyone who is a cunt is coping, some people are just cunts.