Stop buying American goods after Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico

I'm boycotting nothing. The issue was your list was trivial.

Replacing brands is piss easy.

Nike? FFS a newcomer in comparison to Slazenger (linked above), and the two German brands Adidas and Puma.

More on Disney, "Alice in Wonderland was made under the personal supervision of Walt Disney, and he took special care when animating British fantasy. He called them his "English Cycle".

As well as the aforementioned Alice in Wonderland (the story (with Tenniel's illustrations) that influenced him most), the cycle also included Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Mary Poppins, Robin Hood, The One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Winnie the Pooh, Treasure Island, and The Sword in the Stone.

@Househunter2025 so it was but it still operates as an independent company out of Vermont. Vermont in USA.

@ChessorBuckaroo's USA owned favourite Wikipedia says:

"Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings Inc., trading and commonly known as Ben & Jerry's, is an American company that manufactures ice cream, frozen yogurt, and sorbet. Founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont, the company went from a single ice cream parlor to a multinational brand over the course of a few decades. The company was sold in 2000 to the multinational conglomerate Unilever but operates as an independent subsidiary. Its present-day headquarters is in South Burlington, Vermont, with its factory in Waterbury, Vermont."

But by all means exclude it from your non-boycott of USA products.

This proposed boycott is going well 😂

Ben and Jerry's is owed by Unilever, a British company

@Courgetteandbeans yes it will be tricky.

But if boycotts were easy there wouldn't be much point in them would there?

Enjoy your non- boycott.

@ChessorBuckaroo you seem a bit confused.

I'm talking about US products & brands imported into UK.

You seem to be wanting to boycott US products Ben & Jerry's doesn't count because the USA didn't invent ice cream.

🙄🤣. Ok then.

Enjoy your non-boycott.

What do we export to the US?

Your list was crap though.

Google, yes.
Apple, yes.
Microsoft, yes.

That's about it though. And as I said without Charles Babbage (first programmable computer) and Ada Lovelace (first progammer) there is no Apple, or Google.

There is nothing in the rest of your list.

Batteries (invented by Volta), panasonic (Japanese brand, and it was the Japanese who commercialised the battery).

I will give a good list.

Tomato ketchup
american cheese (albeit it is modified Cheddar)
Yellow mustard
Kelloggs cereals
Spielberg
Walt Disney (though as I said above, he was heavily influenced by Alice whose illustrator was John Tenniel, the cartoonist for Punch)
Tim Burton (heavily influenced by the macabre of Roald Dahl, a childhood hero)

Coca Cola I will concede is another, but again, without Joseph Priestley inventing carbonated water there is no Cola, and R.Whites had been making various other flavours before Coke existed.

That list by @RobinEllacotStrike was bleedin silly. At least do some research before posting.

Influence of Monty Python on US television

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MontyPython#Culturalinfluenceandlegacy

No Simons Fuller and Cowell no Idol, X Factor, Got talent. No Steven Knight no Millionaire. No Strictly no Dancing with the stars. And on and on.

The battery was invented by Volta, and Sony via Akira Yoshino developed the one we use in our devices.

The computer? Charles Babagge. First programmer? Ada Lovelace. The pioneer of computer science? Alan Turing. And Sir Jonathan Ive was also the chief design officer at Apple.

Disney, use cartoons, with the cartoon first appearing in Punch. Walt also read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a boy and said: "No story in English literature has intrigued me more than Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It fascinated me the first time I read it as a schoolboy." Tenniel (chief cartoonist at Punch, also provided the illustrations for Alice). _

Ben and Jerry's? FFS. Ice cream has been here since the Victorian era. The Italians have been the masters of it.

Nike is a latecomer (1970s). Adidas and Puma are from the 1940s, while Slazenger (British sports brand from the 1880s) has the longest-running sporting sponsorship in the world, thanks to its association with the Wimbledon, the oldest tennis tournament in the world._

I will give some actual stuff that was invented in america.

The call and response that Africans in america used came from the Scots hymn singing known as lining out – where one person sang a solo (a precentor) and others followed. Later Africans in america, such as Chuck Berry and Little Richard, they in turn would influence musicians here, with their music birthing The Beatles, The Rolling stones etc._

@ChessorBuckaroo yes we import cement from USA and all the other things I listed.

I should add Wikipedia to that list. It's American.

Did you access Wikipedia via google?

Cement, like many inventions, is British.

Were the Romans British?

Admittedly, not using Google, Microsoft or NetFlix would be tricky but for the rest there's not much that I would actively buy. I don't drink Coke, Pepsi or Starbucks and don't eat McDonalds, batteries maybe...

Cement?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_cement

Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general use around the world as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco, and non-specialty grout. It was developed from other types of hydraulic lime in England in the early 19th century by Joseph Aspdin,.

Cement, like many inventions, is British.

Airplanes are powered by rolls royce engines. And Frank Whittle invented the jet engine. The Brits also invented the first commercial airliner.

The pharmaceutical industry was invented by Alexander Fleming when he discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic. For good measure Edward Jenner also invented the first vaccine.

Hotels? The biggest chain is Premier Inn.

US television is shite. It took Monty Python to bring them satire.

US "music" today is 90% non music, Rap, which uses rhyming, which the British invented with nursery rhymes from the mid 1600s onward. Over half of the 60 best-selling album in the UK are British artists.

I could go. Marshall amps. Vox guitar amps.

Coke Pepsi use what? Carbonated water invented by Joseph Priestley . And the first commercial soft drink, 50 years before those two, R. White's Lemonade

Mc Ds, the fast food industry via Fish and chips outlets existed 80 years before it did.

I could go on and on.

The yanks couldn't get beyond Earth without German rockets, and once in space couldn't get anywhere without the fuel cell invented by Francis Thomas Bacon

Just need to be selective. Tesla would be a good place to start. This whole 'trade war' seems a bit off. More like a scam to crash the share price and buy while it's cheap. Of course for that to work you'd have to know the prices will bounce back- like if you knew your pal in the WH was going to call the 'trade war' off ?

And it all serves as a dead cat while the Muskovites seize everyone's personal data. I think the Coup is more important to Trump than the phoney war.

I think it is interesting and telling that the import taxes on China are proposed lower- the reality being that many ‘US products’ are in fact made in China (looking at you apple).

I feel sorry for any Tesla owners who are losing on their resale value. (Although my experience of Tesla owners is they would never sell their precious ....)

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Some European numbers for Tesla sales/registrations for January 2025 (YoY) are being published and it's brutal:
France: -63.4%, Spain: -75.4%, Norway: -40.2%, Sweden: -46.0%, Netherlands: -42.5%, UK: -18.2%
Maybe Europeans DO start paying attention to what Elon Musk is doing.
Source: CNBC, Electrek and others.

Just off the top of my head:
Google
Apple
Microsoft
Amazon
Starbucks
Nike
Air BNB
Uber
McDonalds/KFC/Taco Bell
Coke/Pepsi etc
Disney
Fashion - Victoria Secret, Levis, Calvin Klein, Gap
Colgate
Energiser & Everready batteries
Ben & Jerry's
Dunkin Donuts

Netflix/Prime
Cement
All the US music/artist/bands/songwriters/films/tv shows
Musical instruments & equipment
Airplanes
Fuel - crude oil & natural gas
Wood pellets (for generating electricity in UK).
Many pharmaceuticals
Holiday Inn/Hilton & many other hotel chains

Good luck with your boycott

My late DM would be with you - she boycotted South African produce from before I was born. My Uncle (her brother) had terrible tales from his time in the merchant navy and stops in South Africa.

Are there not ethical investors who allow you to chose how your money is invested ?

Of no real import to the little person. However if that little person starts to make a nuisance of themselves by asking their bank or other financial institutions if they actively invest in <insert ethical choice here> can sometimes help. If in no other way that it will signal to a grifter somewhere that there is money to be made in being anti-<insert ethical choice here>.

That said, remember that his Lord High Musk would regard that as the act of a criminal. In fact he might just have wanted all the US social security data to see who is avoiding being on Twitter. Remember he is suing companies who have chosen not to advertise on that fetid swamp of putrid hatemongering that is amok with trolls, molls* and bellyaches.

*Stuck for a rhyme, but liked the reference.

I did my first no-US-goods shop yesterday. Admittedly, I'm in Canada, but most of my regular brands were from the US. I won't be switching back anytime soon, even if it costs me more in the short-term. I think many Canadians, from accross the political spectrum, feel similarly.

I would love to boycot items from the US but I honestly don't know what I buy that comes from there. I check labels and I don't ever recall seeing made in the USA. Any suggestions so I can feel like I'm sticking two fingers up at the tangerine tyrant?

But ok to pander to the US?
To China?
Why this anybody-but-the-EU attitude? How exactly do we benefit from it?

No he’s not,he’s doing the best for him and other rich white men like him.

Absolutely this.