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New tariff hike could cost Germany $18BN

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 62 words · By Video by Charlotte Lam
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Claim 1: “New tariff hike could cost Germany $18BN”
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Multiple web search results from economic institutes (Reuters via web search, Kiel Institute, IfW expert) report that a proposed tariff hike by Donald Trump on European vehicles could result in significant economic losses for Germany, specifically citing figures around $17.58 billion to $18 billion. These sources are independent economic analyses.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany (Federal Republic of Germa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Western and Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north with the Alps to the south. Its sixteen c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany
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