I know that people don't like to acknowledge that all these other countries have been hitting the UNITED STATES with tariffs on our products for years, yet when we do matching/reciprocal tariffs we're the "bad guys"? If countries don't like getting tariffs placed on them because it's not good for their economies, but they were doing the same to us for years and years. Canada for example has been charging us 245% on all dairy products, France 100%+ on wine or the EU 50%+ on beef plus banning the import of chicken.

That means they were more like people taking advantage of the US than friends and although most countries dropped their F35 orders for the the other reasons I listed in my previous post 6th gen instead of 5th gen and the length of time it takes for approval by Congress for (FMS) Foreign Military Sales or the other route is through the Department of Commerce, than for tariff reasons.

My job handles this now and it's not uncommon for say the purchase of missiles that were approved by Congress say AMRAAM (block 7) production being stopped and (block 8) starting. The cost is different and the old approval doesn't work for the newer model, quantity, etc, so the request must be resubmitted. The relevant information on this activity can be found under (ITAR) International Traffic in Arms Regulation if anyone would like to see what kind of pain in the ass this process is...

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