Never fight a trade war on two fronts against every country simultaneously.

The world economic system includes many places that aren’t the USA and many of them were doing pretty well. That to me would suggest that there’s another problem to blame for the crappy situation people are dealing with in the US. I’m all for rethinking a system to help benefit more people but I really don’t think that’s what’s happening here at all.

It’s ok everyone they will all be a lot better off once manufacturing comes back to the US, they can make up the difference by working in a local sweatshop.

People being incentivised to keep these relationships secret just gives even more leverage to the CCP if they successfully use this as an espionage tactic. I assume that’s what this is meant to guard against but surely it would have the opposite effect wouldn’t it?

All the goods that Trump excempts from tarrifs is tipping his hand. If I were one of these countries like Taiwan where semiconductors are exempted, I would apply an export duty equal to the tarrif on other goods. If you want to tarrif me fine but you’re going to have to commit.

Do they show anywhere how they arrived at those numbers for tarrifs to the USA? It says it includes currency manipulation but I have no idea what that is or how it’s calculated.

EDIT: Just saw in another thread it’s literally just trade deficit divided by exports from that country…holy shit.

No basis in logic is a nice summary of the Trump administration in general.

Those penguins are trying to rip off America! It’s about time they pay their fair share

Those uninhabited islands were formed specifically to rip off America!

Guys, I’m not totally sure about this, but just maybe this guy isn’t really interested in peace.

Naval drones could be especially helpful

What a great movie. I will see it again soon…but not yet

No no… negative three

Delay nothing

A fact that nobody who voted that way could have possibly known ahead of time.

Nice to see Canada poutine him in his place.

Don’t forget the millions of voters as well

Ohhhh no no, we need that in MP4 now… I’ll just go ahead and make sure you get another copy of that memo.

All good, it happens, I probably wasn’t clear. Let’s just hope the whole thing stops, clearly identified officers or not.

I’m not talking about what we can determine here from the comfort of our devices, I’m talking about what a reasonable person might think in the moment and how that might cause them to respond.