{"id":7048140,"date":"2026-08-26T03:31:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/cut-off-trade-with-spain\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T03:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:31:58","slug":"cut-off-trade-with-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7048140","title":{"rendered":"Cut off trade with Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-8491655882912597140\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to watch how many news sources reported that President Dementia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/trump-says-hes-cutting-off-trade-with-spain-over-defense-spending-iran\/\">ordered<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/trump-says-he-ordered-cutting-off-all-trade-with-spain-2026-07-08\/\">a halt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/trump-says-he-ordered-cutting-off-all-trade-with-spain-2026-07-08\/\">to all trade<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/national-news\/articles\/2026-07-08\/trump-wants-to-cut-off-trade-with-spain-heres-what-the-u-s-gets-from-the-country\">with Spain<\/a> without mentioning that Trump has no power to do that.<\/p>\n<p>While people talk about &#8220;U.S. trade with Spain&#8221; almost all of that trade is between individuals or businesses in the two countries, not the governments. A company importing olive oil from Spain to be sold in U.S. grocery stores is engaging in &#8220;U.S. trade with Spain.&#8221; Trump can make things more bureaucratically difficult for importers or exporters to that country (whether those difficulties are legal is a different matter, this administration breaks the law constantly) but that would not stop all trade. He could try to impose extra tariffs on Spain, but thanks to last February&#8217;s Supreme Court decision, it is not clear if those tariffs would ever go into effect.<\/p>\n<p>Trump could try to get Congress to pass sanctions on Spain, but again, that&#8217;s not something that he could do himself, and Congress is likely to ignore him because, um, why are we doing this?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/08\/world\/europe\/trump-spain-trade-us-iran-nato.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wVA.JkVN.SNgl5K_6x8ku&amp;smid=url-share\">Kudos to the NYT<\/a> who at least tried to look into the practical question of what cutting off trade with Spain would mean.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting to watch how many news sources reported that President Dementia ordered a halt to all trade with Spain without mentioning that Trump has no power to do that. 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