Guess they ran into the usage limits themselves when they worked on the messaging in Claude Code: "Claude usage limit reached. Your limit will reset at 8pm (UTC)"
Guess the reason why they recently introduced agents? ;)
This is not a great change if you ask me. I will have to figure out how badly this affects and if needed just cancel the subscription and find an alternative.
And then you have the EU invest $600 billion in the United States instead of the European Union. I hope EU hasn't also accepted lowering food quality down to US standards...
My take is that it’s all an illusion. The deal looks good on paper for the US. But EU/Japan/etc. big business will setup subsidiaries in tax haven states such as Texas or Florida and sell back to themselves. Similarly to how US firms used Ireland.
If goods are brought into the US, with tolls paid, and then sold for much more than the assessed value, the goods will probably be seized.
This agreement is certainly exactly as bad as it looks. No one has historically entered into an agreement like this. Not Sweden when it was a tiny country not part of the EU, no country whatsoever.
When a country has been had its goods tariffed the response has always been to counter those tariffs with tariffs on goods with an equal value, so this agreement is completely exceptional.
You’re making it out like it was zero sum prior which it wasn’t and never has. The increased is 5% and the new baseline for taxable goods ie. 15% from the prior 10%. It’s basically the EU equivalent of VAT but without telling the naive American it’s an increased tax on the consumer.
The real news is these investments/purchases and that’s what my comment was about. No other country is investing in the US outside of mining. But to make face you’ll agree and setup a paper mill for manufacturing, as for power/natural resources, buy back through your own entities. Look up the news about foreign mining, they’re up in arms, but that’s exactly what they voted for.
EU firms too pay VAT, so no, it isn't somehow equivalent to VAT.
These investments and purchases look bad, and are bad, but the really bad things is the non-reciprocal tariff, which makes it impossible to invest in EU production that can scale.
The EU has no say about how its members invest and doesn’t have the power to invest this sum itself so I’m very curious about what this supposed $600 billion investment is supposed to be.
Sad day anyway. France was apparently amongst the sole country which wanted to use the tools specifically put in place to retaliate against tariffs but as usual the German got their way and we end up with a deal which serve only them.
The Union is as good as dead as far as I’m concerned and the terrible thing is that it was probably Trump true goal.
> France was apparently amongst the sole country which wanted to use the tools specifically put in place to retaliate against tariffs but as usual the German got their way and we end up with a deal which serve only them.
France wanted to activate the Anti-Coercion Instrument immediatly after the 30% tariffs were announced. The law was passed after the first Trump presidency supposedly to prevent Europe being pressured into the kind of situation Von Der Leyen voluntarily put us in. It's a set of retaliatory measures which can be taken very quickly: blocking the ability of a country's companies to bid for some European contracts, suspending technological transfer, relaxing IP law.
Anyway, as long as the PPE will be in charge and the comission is staffed with German rejects, the Union will go nowhere. European only have what they deserved. I'm just sad my country is dragged down with the sinking ship.
It's always good to check your vendors. I wouldn't limit it to Chinese vendors only. I have experienced similar issues with American or European vendors. Americans are pretty bad a fix spec issues compared to Europeans.
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