Oh no not tariffs, we won’t be able to afford… wait, hang on, we don’t pay them do we? Carry on.
Right, except the tariff gets baked into the price your importer pays to bring the product into the US. So while you don’t cut a check to the US Treasury, your buyer does, and that either makes your product less competitive or forces you to eat the cost in your margins. But yeah, “carry on”.
“discriminate” is a bad faith use of vocabulary.
What Trump means is that those nation-states are expressing sovereignty.
Yes and it mirrors his beliefs on young girls expressing sovereignty over their bodies too.
European Union, stand up to this bully, you’re the second second largest economy, act like one.
best i can do is shoot myself in the knees
With how things are going is might become the largest one
We kinda need all support we can get considering the blood-thirsty bear to the east. It would be very unwise at this point to go and poke the big hungry bear on the west. We can defend ourselves with a few sticks at best at this point. Or we have a bazooka, but politicians unwilling to use anything but a stick. One of those two.
The problem is the big hungry bears are looking at y’all trying to figure out how to divvy your area up, and only thing keeping the Trump one from just cozying completely up to the other is his inability to stick with a thought process for more than five minutes.
Give me what I want or I’ll tax my population SO HARD! I don’t get it.
He bankrupted a casino. That’s all you need to get.
The U.S. is the world’s largest consumer market by a factor of 3. So it’s more accurate to say “Give me what I want or I’ll take away a sizable chunk of your customers, potentially causing you financial ruin”
You and I both know that the U.S. won’t just magically and instantly stand up its own production to replace your countries market, but in this case he just needs American companies to start importing from a different foreign country with lower tariffs. The effect this has on your country depends on how much your country’s GDP comes from exports to America, but it’s potentially very harmful.
As an American this sucks because long term, long after this dude is gone, our trading partners will have already adjusted who they’re exporting to in order to absorb a loss like this, and I doubt that’d change for decades.
European markets don’t tend to send the US products it tends to be services. There isn’t anyone else at least there isn’t anyone else who doesn’t already also have tariffs on them.
He went to tariff with mad a little while ago and decided to put tariffs on everyone including nations who’ve never traded with the United States because they have a population of six people and 3,000 koalas.
Well you see he’s a profoundly stupid man that sincerely believes tariffs are paid by the producer, not the importer and he’s so sure of himself that it’s literally impossible that he is wrong about anything, ever.
He was wearing a cap with “Trump was right about everything” in a recent event, right? Who does that?
Brainwashing and propaganda to sell internally. He’s preping all americans to hate everything that is outside of them and to blame on those pesky other bad countries. He’s basically ensuring he has enough bodies to use for war.
trump now demands DEI.
Like three days after ‘normalizing trade with the EU’, it’s right back to antagonizing and tariff threats. Who could have seen this sudden reversal coming?
when will they learn you cant negotiate with terrorists?
The same US Tech that Donated MILLIONS of Dollars and Gold Statues to Trump? What a WEIRD but NOT CORRUPT Coincidence!
I’m still pissed that Canada dropped theirs. It’s not discriminatory, it’s for all online services. Trump just wants to make his tech billionaire friends happy.
What did Canada drop?
The online services tax. Right now foreign companies can exploit the Canadian internet users and not pay a penny in taxes for it.
They dropped it because Trump was using it as an excuse to block trade negotiations. They dropped it and the negotiations still went no where. Canada is still paying higher tariffs than Russia. Let that sink in. Canada needs to speed up their decoupling if their economy from the US and bring back that tax.
Don’t tell Trump, but our effective tariff rate is actually quite low because the USMCA exempts a huge amount of goods from them. Shh. He probably has no idea that’s in there, even though he’s the guy who negotiated it last time he was in office.
Again why are we taking the demented orange turd seriously in any capacity? This isn’t news this is the ramblings of a brain long turned to pudding
Is an angry child with a loaded gun to be taken seriously?
He’s pointing it down his own throat though.
Do what I want or I will crash my own economy is not much of a threat.
Each day I think he can’t get more stupid, and each day I’m wrong.
This is not discrimination…
This is also one note point on why we need to diversify from us tech.
not just diversity but abandon wherever you can
I’ve got a new PC arriving tomorrow ready to be loaded with Linux, my phone runs Graphene, my cloud data is here in Canada or the EU…
I’m getting there!
American consumer is about to be impotent so it’s not really relevant
What about the tariffs on countries that want to see what’s in the Epstein files?
Haha, thanks, please do.
