Should we boycott America and American products?

OK so there are plenty of American owned British companies.
I don't think anything mentioned so far would be anything I'd buy, except maybe chocolate 🤔

We've already decided to avoid America and are now planning a trip to Canada

I've stopped buying Clinique facial products, which I've been using for the last 25 years or so as it's an American company. I'll use up the last of it and then switch to Simple, which for the most part is made in the UK. The Simple Face Wash, eye cream and moisturiser I have bought are both made in the UK. That's my contribution at the moment!

all made, not both made...

NotSpaghetti

Wines... lots from the US - especially California

Great point. Dont buy American wine

Casdon

What makes it more complicated is that a lot of companies we think of as British are not UK owned, so the profits don’t come to the UK, particularly if the manufacturing is also overseas. I’m learning a lot, but it becomes all consuming when you start looking into where food is made, and which company owns it as a subsidiary brand. Checking out product at a time is probably easiest.

It is complicated but we don’t have to make it complicated.
Just boycott products actually made in the USA.

There are some going the complicated way but for me I will just go simple.

Casdon

I haven’t looked up one foodstuff yet for which there isn’t an alternative UK owned version though Churchview, so we do have the power to tailor our shopping habits - it’s just more time consuming initially checking it all out. I don’t know if it will prove more expensive.

Crafting. I never thought of that.
Craters need to tell their suppliers they are not going to buy American made craft items but want British or European.

American nuts. ALMONDS

Approximately 70% of the almonds consumed in Europe come from the United States.
In Germany, around 65% of the imported almonds are from the United States, while 20% are Spanish (figures from the World Bank in 2021).
More than 50% of the imports in France come from Spain, but the United States and Australia still make up almost 30%.

As much as it pains me to see Canada, the UK and others biycott us and as much is this is going to hurt, I applaud you all for taking a stance. Hurting their pocketbook is the only way to beat them.

I can’t think of anything I buy that’s made in the US.Things are made in China, the UK or Europe mainly.Apart from bananas from African countries or Madeira.🤔

Not sure how we could boycott US products effectively. They're world leaders in trade and business, and a lot of people don't realise how many pies they have their fingers in (including pies that used to be British). For example, I've not bought anything made by Cadbury's since it was sold off to Kraft (a US company which owns so many companies that I couldn't list them all here).
Examples: Kraft dairy products (of course), Nabisco, Jacobs, Oreo biscuits, Maxwell House, Philadelphia cheese...
When you don't know where they are, it's hard to boycott them. They don't necessarily make their products in the USA, they just own companies here and cream off the profits. But this is the great global market that so many people wanted, so now here it is, merry Christmas.

Am not sure that I would boycott anything from the US even if I did buy a product unknowingly from there.DT won’t be in position longer than a few years and why hurt US business even if we could?Not that buying a packet of biscuits now and then helps them all that much in my case.

Oreo

I can’t think of anything I buy that’s made in the US.Things are made in China, the UK or Europe mainly.Apart from bananas from African countries or Madeira.🤔

I was also just about to add the Kraft Heinz products. Our cupboards and shops are full of them.
My only suggestion is to shop locally produced products and make your own biscuits, and sauces. Could be difficult.

Oops wrong quote!

NonGrannyMoll

Not sure how we could boycott US products effectively. They're world leaders in trade and business, and a lot of people don't realise how many pies they have their fingers in (including pies that used to be British). For example, I've not bought anything made by Cadbury's since it was sold off to Kraft (a US company which owns so many companies that I couldn't list them all here).
Examples: Kraft dairy products (of course), Nabisco, Jacobs, Oreo biscuits, Maxwell House, Philadelphia cheese...
When you don't know where they are, it's hard to boycott them. They don't necessarily make their products in the USA, they just own companies here and cream off the profits. But this is the great global market that so many people wanted, so now here it is, merry Christmas.

Right one here!

I don’t buy Heinz products but hold my hands up to buying a packet of Oreos now and then, hence my user name.😃

Oreo

Am not sure that I would boycott anything from the US even if I did buy a product unknowingly from there.DT won’t be in position longer than a few years and why hurt US business even if we could?Not that buying a packet of biscuits now and then helps them all that much in my case.

Trump and his supporters (see Steve Bannon at CPAC) are already putting the idea of re-election out there...Trump portraying himself as King. Even if he's only in his post for a few years just think of what chaos he can cause.

The list of Kraft Heinz products is very long, it includes many labels that we wouldn’t associate with them. Milka and Toblerone chocolate to name a couple.
The full list is available on the Internet. Difficult to avoid when shopping.

We used to try to boycott SA goods during apartheid. Did it change anything?

There is a big movement to do this, people in Canada, Mexico, Denmark, and other countries in Europe are all thinking along the same lines. I’ve just read that the Dow Jones is dropping considerably too, because of loss of consumer confidence in the US itself. I think it will make a difference, because money is what drives Trump et al - and it is one of the very few things that we as individuals actually can do at the moment.

Individually it may not make a difference, but if enough people avoid American goods it may hopefully have some effect.
I have an American pen pal but I shan't boycott her because she detests Trump and his cronies. It's interesting hearing about all this from someone who lives there.

J52

The list of Kraft Heinz products is very long, it includes many labels that we wouldn’t associate with them. Milka and Toblerone chocolate to name a couple.
The full list is available on the Internet. Difficult to avoid when shopping.

It is difficult to avoid Kraft products.

When Kraft took over Cadburys and shut down the Bristol factory many (including me) vowed never to buy Cadbury's products again. I don't but I have been given them.
Has it made a difference? I don't think so.

Churchview

Morrisons
Hotel Chocolat
Jaguar
Aston Martin
Cadburys
Kenco coffee
Philadelphia cheese
Dairylea cheese
Terry's chocolates
Maxwell House coffee
Toblerone
Bird's desserts
Suchard chocolates

All owned by American companies. This is an interesting article which shockingly says that 25% of British GDP is made up of sales of 1,256 US multinationals operating in Britain.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/29/britain-great-again-stop-flogging-our-top-companies-to-the-us

Ford sold Jaguar to TaTa in 2008 . They are an Indian company . The cars are still made in Coventry in England . Only problem is they are heading more to an ultra luxury product with prices over 100, 000 .

It's interesting to discover how many products on UK supermarket shelves come from the USA.
Kraft products as already mentioned are widely available and include
Amoy Soy Sauce
HP Sauces and Daddies sauce
Lee and Perrins Worcestershire sauce
Heinz ketchup, salad cream, baby food and soups.
Here in Canada I've stopped buying US oranges, marmalade and peanut butter. and no more Toblerone chocolate for my son-in-law either. We stopped buying Cadbury's chocolate when the US took it over because the quality went down.
I looked up Skippy and Jif peanut butters which I believe are sold in the UK and discovered Skippy is made in the US and in China. Jif made in the US.

Buy Australian wine, much better than the American stuff anyway. I didn’t know Heinz was American, though I don’t buy Heinz, more Rosella. Hope that’s not American but probably not. I thought Cadburys were British, that’s a shame they are not.