[Finance] How best to boycott USA goods.

[Anger]

Well I'm definitely boycotting you for this unmarked spoiler of a TV show I started watching last week

Mea culpa.

I’ve heard she comes back again, re-appearing in the shower after it turned out it was just the hotel manager’s dream.

 

[LazDee]

Never been happy with myself for using Amazon so that's gone. Netflix is pants these days so that's any easy one. I'm writing this on an Android phone... So that's the tough one to disentangle from.

 

[happypig]

Here here. Every snowflake denies it is the snow storm. Individual micro action can definitely make a difference.

That's my view.
Take holidays. In 2022 (latest data I can find easily) there were over 10 million visitors to the USA from Western Europe. It doesn't need every single one to cancel their holiday/business trip but if a few % do choose to holiday elsewhere that has a noticeable effect on revenues.
Same with technology, food, cars etc. Its the butterfly effect (probably)

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

That's my view.
Take holidays. In 2022 (latest data I can find easily) there were over 10 million visitors to the USA from Western Europe. It doesn't need every single one to cancel their holiday/business trip but if a few % do choose to holiday elsewhere that has a noticeable effect on revenues.
Same with technology, food, cars etc. Its the butterfly effect (probably)

Exactly. We were going to the US next year. We're now going to Canada.

 

[Home and Away]

Calls for boycotting US products spread in northern Europe

While tens of thousands of people have joined Facebook groups in Sweden and Denmark calling for no longer buying American, Norwegian company Haltbakk Bunkers has announced that it will stop supplying US military vessels with fuel.

www.lemonde.fr

 

[BBassic]

Was just sitting here watching the game and working my way through a bag of Skittles which I'm probably going to have to stop eating. Not because they're made by a subsidiary of Mars but because of this:

The European Union's top food regulators found in 2021 that titanium dioxide, an additive found in Skittles, could damage DNA, which in turn could lead to cancer. This resulted in the EU phasing out sale of Skittles and other foods containing titanium dioxide starting February 7, 2022, with a full ban enacted August 7, 2022.

I had no idea they'd been banned in that Union thing we used to be in.

 

[Badger]

That's my view.
Take holidays. In 2022 (latest data I can find easily) there were over 10 million visitors to the USA from Western Europe. It doesn't need every single one to cancel their holiday/business trip but if a few % do choose to holiday elsewhere that has a noticeable effect on revenues.
Same with technology, food, cars etc. Its the butterfly effect (probably)

Yes. I usually do at least a couple of trips across the border each year. I'm planning to avoid going to the US completely this year (with the exception of the Air France debacle I mentioned earlier in the thread). My running club usually does a trip to the US for a race event but we've already decided to stick to Canadian events this year.

It could be a challenge avoiding the US to have any real chance of attending World Cup matches next year though.

 

[SouthSaxon]

Was just sitting here watching the game and working my way through a bag of Skittles which I'm probably going to have to stop eating. Not because they're made by a subsidiary of Mars but because of this:

The European Union's top food regulators found in 2021 that titanium dioxide, an additive found in Skittles, could damage DNA, which in turn could lead to cancer. This resulted in the EU phasing out sale of Skittles and other foods containing titanium dioxide starting February 7, 2022, with a full ban enacted August 7, 2022.

I had no idea they'd been banned in that Union thing we used to be in.

So you’re saying that only smarties have the answer?

 

[Is it PotG?]

I am making my effort by refusing to purchase ANY Apple products whatsoever.

 

[clapham_gull]

Was just sitting here watching the game and working my way through a bag of Skittles which I'm probably going to have to stop eating. Not because they're made by a subsidiary of Mars but because of this:

The European Union's top food regulators found in 2021 that titanium dioxide, an additive found in Skittles, could damage DNA, which in turn could lead to cancer. This resulted in the EU phasing out sale of Skittles and other foods containing titanium dioxide starting February 7, 2022, with a full ban enacted August 7, 2022.

I had no idea they'd been banned in that Union thing we used to be in.

There're not banned. The additive was removed in the EU and the UK, although I think not technically banned in the UK.

 

[Mackenzie]

I'm not buying anything made in America, I also shout as Teslas.

 

[Bodian]

I am making my effort by refusing to purchase ANY Apple products whatsoever.

Had a lovely bottle of this earlier though... Grown in the UK, so it should be fine.

 

[GT49er]

As well as American Express, that'll include Apple, Amazon, Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, Ford, Meta, Citigroup, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, Disney, Dell, Proctor & Gamble, Boeing, Nvidia, Pfizer, Intel, HP, Nike and Coca Cola amongst many others.
Whilst I admire the underlying sentiment, it's probably fair to say that you'll have your work cut out.

Well yes, can't do everything.

This one sums it up for me

Agree it will be hard to eradicate U.S. companies but it is worthwhile everyone being conscious about all purchases and buying from non-U.S. companies when you can. Any impact is better than no impact and the more who do this the better.
It’s Rola Cola for me from now on.
Seriously though, I’ve already scrapped my U.S. Holiday that I would have been having later this year and I have a long track record of boycotting companies which deliver poor service, so I reckon I can apply the same mindset to boycotting ‘The land of the selfish and the home of the morally bankrupt’.

Microsoft cancelled; no more occasional trips to MacD's, no Starbucks (although I never did anyway!), own-brand Cola, avoid Amazon etc. Every little helps!

 

[DavePage]

Don’t allow a Universal theme park

 

[Weststander]

Don’t allow a Universal theme park

Comcast are hated by Trump/MAGA.
https://publicknowledge.org/continuing-the-attack-on-dei-the-comcast-investigation/

 

[vegster]

I would suggest not buying anything from Boots the Chemist as they are ultimately US owned.

However, if sales dip they start laying off UK staff ! There is so much interconnectivity in trade these days that it is almost impossible to separate.

 

[Bozza]

Had a lovely bottle of this earlier though... Grown in the UK, so it should be fine.

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You've got away with one there. Ultimately Cornish Orchards belongs to Asahi, which is Japanese.

It could just as easily have had a US parent

Which just goes to show how tricky this stuff can be if you follow corporate ownership chains up.

 

[Guinness Boy]

You've got away with one there. Ultimately Cornish Orchards belongs to Asahi, which is Japanese.

It could just as easily have had a US parent

Which just goes to show how tricky this stuff can be if you follow corporate ownership chains up.

Yup. I've binned my Facebook and Twitter / X accounts but I'd not get anywhere at work or in my social life without WhatsApp (owned by Meta and therefore Zuck), LinkedIn (we have the Sales version at work - I've no idea of the CEO or Owner's politics if I'm honest) and the Apple devices I run them on. I'd just really had enough of moronic posts from people I'd once said hi to in the school corridor on the one hand and Musk / toxic politics on the other.

I'm happy to continue my one man. almost total, boycott of McDonalds but the Sausage and Egg McMuffin / hangover cure needed axis is powerful.

And I promise I'll never own a Tesla.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Why do you care enough to come on here and tell us we are all wrong for doing this?

Its weird.

It was a question. I don't think it's saying we are wrong.

 

[Clive Walker]

no more porn hub for me!