A shifting perception of the United States amid President Trump’s trade war is prompting Europeans to pivot decisively away from U.S. goods and services.
No matter how much I despise the US, I don’t think I’d ever pick Nintendo or Ubisoft over American game companies. Those two alone are doing wonders to destroy everything we used to love about video games.
Outside of Software, I can’t think of anything I buy that’s American.
I can think of American made versions of a bunch of the things I buy and the American made versions as always worse. Even American companies like 3M mostly manufacture in Europe since they can get good quality there unlike USA.
Sadly, a bunch of things people buy are American owned but sold under a more local brand name, especially food or snack items, but also many other things.
For example: A scary amount of Europeans don’t know that Mondelēz International is an American company. It was started by Kraft, famous for their “processed cheese product”. And they own brands like Cadbury, Milka, Toblerone, Marabou/Freia, etc.
Coca-Cola also own a lot of “local” flavoured drinks.
At least coca-cola have the courtesy of making the ownership known so brand loyalist can support the billionaire they like, while i can easily identify who to boycott.
Mondelēz might be international but productions are local. They have plenty of manufactures all accords France, Belgium and Netherlands, to stick with the ones I know.
Although I would argue that such “unrealized” profits would still count as being given overseas, since the money is not available to the european economy any more, no?
They just keep it parked in some kind of inflation proof financial construct until needed (at which point they might have to pay taxes on however much of it they need to withdraw, but still).
They just keep it parked in some kind of inflation proof financial construct until needed
Sometimes, othertimes they use it to just buy out european/australian/japanese/etc entities - since it’s hard to repatriate, they can use that as a sort of justification where some shareholders (Hedge Funds that want dividends now) might object.
Just remember all the software (games and apps) and media that is produced in America
Just remember that Sony (PlayStation) or Nintendo is not American and neither is Ubisoft.
No matter how much I despise the US, I don’t think I’d ever pick Nintendo or Ubisoft over American game companies. Those two alone are doing wonders to destroy everything we used to love about video games.
But they produce some of their games in the US.
Outside of Software, I can’t think of anything I buy that’s American.
I can think of American made versions of a bunch of the things I buy and the American made versions as always worse. Even American companies like 3M mostly manufacture in Europe since they can get good quality there unlike USA.
Sadly, a bunch of things people buy are American owned but sold under a more local brand name, especially food or snack items, but also many other things.
For example: A scary amount of Europeans don’t know that Mondelēz International is an American company. It was started by Kraft, famous for their “processed cheese product”. And they own brands like Cadbury, Milka, Toblerone, Marabou/Freia, etc.
Coca-Cola also own a lot of “local” flavoured drinks.
At least coca-cola have the courtesy of making the ownership known so brand loyalist can support the billionaire they like, while i can easily identify who to boycott.
Mondelēz might be international but productions are local. They have plenty of manufactures all accords France, Belgium and Netherlands, to stick with the ones I know.
Well okay but where do the profits go? That’s right, overseas
Often not, no - it’s a big problem that these huge multinationals have is repatriating their foreign cash.
Apple used to have somewhere around 5x more cash in Ireland than they did in USA, because taxes.
Interesting, I hadn’t thought of that.
Although I would argue that such “unrealized” profits would still count as being given overseas, since the money is not available to the european economy any more, no?
They just keep it parked in some kind of inflation proof financial construct until needed (at which point they might have to pay taxes on however much of it they need to withdraw, but still).
Sometimes, othertimes they use it to just buy out european/australian/japanese/etc entities - since it’s hard to repatriate, they can use that as a sort of justification where some shareholders (Hedge Funds that want dividends now) might object.