U.S. President Donald Trump's so-called 'Liberation Day' trade tariffs are "madness, pure madness", according to former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta.
  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    I’m not sure how they came up with the headline because the article never even mentions compliance. The PM only talks about retaliatory tariffs.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
      10·
      15 days ago

      Yeah I was wondering how noncompliance would work lol. Smuggling? But I think they just mean retaliatory tariffs. Weird and misleading way to describe it.

    • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      15 days ago

      I’d be willing to bet that there was a mis-translation somewhere along the line. The article says he was talking about Europe not “retreating into a fortress”, because that reaction would be worse than the tariffs themselves. Maybe somewhere along the line, him saying that in Italian got mis-translated into not complying? Just my thoughts.