Tariffs? Buy stuff now?

The richest, and there for the smartest, man on Earth:

Radwin Bodnic said:

Competition is one thing, but cooperation is generally more effective and leads to greater achievements.

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This is a mindset we’ve had at Pipe Puffin, so it’s interesting you bring this up as a closing sentence.

As many have said in this thread, imports from China are affecting costs for a lot more than just the US. Being in our position as a Canadian vendor, and through many opportunities to partner with hard working artisans across the globe (tinymigh.t_bowl, TSWooden, Glass Charlie, Greek Glass, LabetKomp, Spider Glass, to name a few), we’ve found that we’re able to make sure people in our industry don’t have to suffer hidden costs at the border for any of our customers in North America, the UK, and EU.

It’s true that working together leads to a greater outcome across the board, so, well said.

I've had fans of Jeffrey Epstein's best friend tell me how great the big beautiful trade deal with the EU is.

There is a 0% tariff on American goods coming in to the EU.

There is a 15% tariff on European goods coming into America.

So the Euros pay a 0% tax on American goods. But I have to pay a new 15% tax on European goods?

I got news for you dummies: 15% isn't going to "encourage Americans to make a domestic TinyMight" or whatever your little delusion is. So, it's literally just a new sales tax.

Also no one in Europe is buying a Ford F150 no matter what. Dumbfucks.



Oh golly gee I wonder why Europeans aren't buying enormous cars made for AmeriFats? Must be trade policy!

It's kind of interesting, there are few products from America that most Europeans want. Europe is simply different, come to Europe, to friends, get to know Europe.

What, you Europeans don't want to buy meat from a country with factory farms so filthy and disgusting you will literally be charged with terrorism if you take video of them?

florduh said:

What, you Europeans don't want to buy meat from a country with factory farms so filthy and disgusting you will literally be charged with terrorism if you take video of them?

Ag-gag - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Not just that. US allows growth hormones and genenetically modified grain (mainly corn) to be given / fed to cattle.

Europeans prefer more organic food, so US beef and pork purveyors go begging for customers outside the US.

Another lost market is China (which consumes lots of pork, and a lot of it came from the US. No more, since TCF came back)

0% tariffs aren't getting Euros to buy American cars

Thank you, Americans, for paying $150 billion in new sales taxes so Trump and his fellow rich pedophiles from the Epstein List can get another tax cut

florduh said:

Thank you, Americans, for paying $150 billion in new sales taxes so Trump and his fellow rich pedophiles from the Epstein List can get another tax cut

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LOL tRump supporters are so STUPID, especially my BIL. Auto makers in US are passing the costs to consumers.

MoRon has a red hat but would never dare wear it in front of me

Be prepared to pay more for Coffee look at the rate for Brazil because OrangeSHTstain wants to support the Fascist leader Bolsonaro
and now NO transaction is safe

Home prices are UP sales are DOWN , obviously Rape boy Donald had NO plan what so ever on housing


The Dollar has DECLINED to worst level since 1972 and the Moron in Chief wants manufacturing to move to US?? The fvck up in chief doesn't have a clue. Why would ANY foreign company move manufacturing to the United States??? LOL don't see many of those stupid Red hats around

The 35% Tariff on Canadian goods is because Canada floated recognizing a Palestinian State.


This will fuck over the US car industry as tons of auto parts pass back and forth over the northern border. A big sales tax Americans will have to pay because Canada hurt Israel's feelings! LOL more Ameri Israel First from Trump! This is right after he printed billions of Inflation Bucks to pay for Israel's fake WMD war against Iran! America Last! LOL!


Most tariffs haven't been passed on to consumers yet because:

1) Most tariffs didn't go into effect until today

2) Corpos started panic buying and stocking up earlier in the year

3) The tariff rates keep changing. Corpos are waiting until they stabilize to decide exactly how much they will fuck us all over.

The true cost of the tariffs won't be felt until the end of the year.

Flotsam said:

The Dollar has DECLINED to worst level since 1972

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You ain't seen nothing yet. There's a good chance tariff based inflation will coincide with the Federal Reserve being bullied into lowering rates for political reasons. This is what Erdogan did with the central bank in Turkey. The result: people and companies started rushing home to spend their money while their money was still worth something. It did make a nice, temporary bump in their GDP (before the crash).

Now, you might say. "America isn't Turkey". Yeah, well Turkey wasn't Turkey until they elected a dumb strongman who permanently fucked their money up

Instead of adding a sales tax (tariff) to every product or raw material imported from another country in the hope this will magically cause "good paying" manufacturing jobs to sprout out of the ground, why don't we simply raise the pay for the jobs we do have now in the retail, service, and healthcare sectors?

Also, a reminder that McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than auto factory workers in the American South.

florduh said:

Instead of adding a sales tax (tariff) to every product or raw material imported from another country in the hope this will magically cause "good paying" manufacturing jobs to sprout out of the ground, why don't we simply raise the pay for the jobs we do have now in the retail, service, and healthcare sectors?

Also, a reminder that McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than auto factory workers in the American South.

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Let's not forget that this is the LOSER who has gone BANKRUPT EIGHT times with his business. Who should be surprised? There are MORONS out there like my BIL that will vote for anything with an R next to their name.

More BS from the Orange SHTstain

How do you think he is giving tax breaks to all those Billionaires?

Flotsam said:

LOL tRump supporters are so STUPID, especially my BIL. Auto makers in US are passing the costs to consumers.

MoRon has a red hat but would never dare wear it in front of me

Be prepared to pay more for Coffee look at the rate for Brazil because OrangeSHTstain wants to support the Fascist leader Bolsonaro

The full list of Trump’s tariffs – from India to Taiwan

US president signs executive order that will impose reciprocal tariffs on dozens of countries in seven days’ time, and orders imminent 35% tariffs on Canada

www.theguardian.com

and now NO transaction is safe

Trump suspends de minimis exemption for low-value imports

Low-value parcels coming from other countries will no longer evade tariffs under the executive order President Trump signed Wednesday.

www.cbsnews.com

Home prices are UP sales are DOWN , obviously Rape boy Donald had NO plan what so ever on housing

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/26/nx-s1-5478757/home-price-record-mortgage-rates

The Dollar has DECLINED to worst level since 1972 and the Moron in Chief wants manufacturing to move to US?? The fvck up in chief doesn't have a clue. Why would ANY foreign company move manufacturing to the United States??? LOL don't see many of those stupid Red hats around

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/business/dollar-decline-trump.html

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My slightly tinfoil hat prediction is that the dollar will never recover. The US has long positioned itself as a place that is friendly to businesses through really lax regulation and minimal import taxes, allowing US consumers pretty much unfettered access to any market imaginable. That meant that several countries and corporations held large amounts of US cash and cash equivalents and debt obligations. But most of the major countries with sizable US debt holdings have been steadily decreasing their holdings thanks to their recognition that the US is no longer a stable neoliberal democracy with reliable rules of engagement for business.

I don't know what the next major currencies are that are used as common reserves. The Euro is used commonly and I would think has the second highest level of cultural penetration after US dollars as a currency that is relatively stable and is used by a massive, well-resourced demographic bloc. Chinese imperialism is very different from American imperialism, so I don't anticipate the yuan to take the place of the dollar as we transition into China being the clear technological leader of the world, but it could happen.


Fascinating table showing foreign ownership of US treasuries over time. Japan did some selling off earlier this year and has been buying again, but China continues to offload US debt obligations.

As a reminder to those who say that US debt being owned by foreign countries is bad: the cornerstone of American global economic domination is forcing every other country in the world to engage with our markets and, in fact, often making other countries completely center their markets around American empire or our imperial vassal states. If everyone starts using their own money, or starts using some other form of money, then our money doesn't have anywhere near the same global purchasing power, and the ability for Americans to go to other countries and use American dollars to get an outsized quality of life will decline dramatically. This whole empire business is complicated, but it relies on other people relying on us to pay back our debts (until we default because what are they gonna do, invade us to get their money back?).