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Sweden exports 3x more to the US than the other way around, and of those $15B in exports it's primarily critical infra like trucks, medicine, and refined petrol
by eddtries 3y ago
Sweden exports 3x more to the US than the other way around, and of those $15B in exports it's primarily critical infra like trucks, medicine, and refined petroleum. I don't believe the US would "retaliate" because Musk doesn't want to give his ~130 employees industry-standard packages in Sweden, but if they did A) it's not a huge amount and B) I doubt the US really wants to reduce critical infra to help a trillion dollar company strong-arm a union in another country lol
- pfdietz 3y agoSo, you're saying Sweden is relatively more vulnerable to trade sanctions.
- eddtries 3y agoI'm saying I don't think Sweden would be impacted by losing a tiny bit of its GDP in exports in order to protect its work culture, but I also don't believe it'd ever come down to that anyway.
- hef19898 3y agoSweden is part of the EU, and thus cannot be sanctioned without sanvtioning the EU as a whole. And that is something the US cannot afford. In general and paeticularly in light of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.