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%.
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.
He was referring to me, and I don’t revel in what’s happening in USA.
I absolutely do have schadenfreude when it goes badly for Trump and Elon Musk though. They are so destructive.
I hope USA will turn back to normal, and my hope for USA is that they will strengthen democracy and get a better democracy, better sooner than later.
But I am far from sure USA will not devolve into a authoritarian dictatorship, because too few are doing anything for it to be effective, and Trump is turning everything around over there.
And I do use sarcasm to point things out sometimes.
Not everyone who is a cunt is coping, some people are just cunts.