- Deliberately put your own house on fire.
- Let it burn!
- Nvm, let’s put out these flames.
- Brag about how you saved the house from destruction.
Art of the deal!
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- set it on fire again in 90 days
It's kinda worse, now. At 30% there's zero chance "US manufacturing" would ever be able to compete with Chinese manufacturing, so it's just a 30% tax on the US people that we're going to be handing over.
I’m confused is this still supposed to bring back American manufacturing?
Or is this to stop fentanyl?
What a nasty question!
Did he even say thank you?
i was just about to open a microchip factory in des moines, too!
Cool! Fun weekend project with the kids.
The news is calling it a "huge win". Really? It's a huge win when you shoot yourself and then remove the bullet? They haven't even closed the wound yet.
So we still get worse prices, only this time we get them on top of self inflicted supply issues
I hate this timeline......
I don't see the supply issues stopping for a while. Importers will wait, expecting the tariffs to drop to 10%.
And the backpedaling continues...
So, still artificially created and self-inflicted inflation, with no advantage or extraction at all whatsoever.
Art of the deal, baby!
"Trump Backs Down And Americans Still Paying 30% Tax On Chinese Goods"
Thanks conservatives. You're a bunch of dumbfucks.
President Climbdown strikes again.
Not that I mind.
doesn't matter. still not buying anything. vote with your wallet.
Importer here.
Here's what really bothers me about this narrative. It's not accurate. People keep throwing out numbers like 145%, 30% etc and it's wrong. Here's the true tariffs for importing something from China today, including the HTSUS codes.
9903.88.01/25% 9903.01.24/20% 9903.01.63/125%
9903.88.01 was enacted on July 6, 2018. There has never been any talk of this going away.
This is a 170% tariff. Not 145% tariff.
So even if they drop the last two tariffs of 145% down to 30%. It's still a 55% tariff on goods coming from China. Why has literally nobody in the media talked about this or anyone clarified these numbers in any public way?
Pisses me off. 55% is a huge tariff.
Question: How pissed off are the people who paid their giant tariffs yesterday?
A 90-day pause doesn't do anything. People are not going to make any long-term plans based on 90 days of uncertainty. Who's going to make a plan for 90 days when day 91 everything could change? If they done this like a month ago maybe it would have helped, but now it's too late.
Bump and dump the market……again?
Excuse me 30% is sky high
Move the inflicting damage closer to the midterm election. Brilliant.