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The devil is in the details, and I for one fear the effect on prices that will ripple all the way down to the European consumer (they are sky-high already, and
by dsign 3y ago
The devil is in the details, and I for one fear the effect on prices that will ripple all the way down to the European consumer (they are sky-high already, and taxation is super high as well), but if it works, it works.
What I'm really curious about is how we are going to fix CO2 emissions from food[^1]. I believe we can decarbonize food production...at a huge political cost. Are we going to use the boil-the-frog technique for that as well? Will there be "meat protests" in France at some point?
[^1]: https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/sustainability-indicators/carbon-footprint-factsheet https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/sustainability...
- throwbadubadu 3y agoCertainly this will ripple through to the customer? The goal of such a border tax for these is to make products within EU competitive again, which have these already priced in, vs external ones which can just not care and be cheap. Always sad that this reasonable tax adaptions are not really in place for more things, e.g. the cost of worker protection here vs there.