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We tend to think a lot about merchandise goods as being automotive goods, furniture goods and these types of heavy equipment goods. But we should not forget that we also do a lot of trade on the agricultural front,
Oil changes, mainly that'll be the first noticeable one, an average oil change on most vehicles is now anywhere between $50 to $80. It's probably going to end up over $100,
So that if any country chooses to retaliate in any way, the signal will be to take further action with respect to likely increased tariffs,
The imposition of tariffs at each stage of fabrication would be disastrous,
The intellectual basis for the kind of advocacy of tariffs comes from arguments on the US side about large US deficits in manufactured goods, which obviously the US has with China and with the EU. We don’t have that between the US and the UK,
At the end of the day, tariffs on spirits products from our neighbors to the north and south are going to hurt U.S. consumers and lead to job losses across the U.S. hospitality industry, just as these businesses continue their long recovery from the pandemic,
Leaving China aside, Mr. Trump’s justification for this economic assault on the neighbors makes no sense,
Mr. Trump sometimes sounds as if the US shouldn’t import anything at all, that America can be a perfectly closed economy making everything at home
The “Tariff Lobby,” headed by the Globalist, and always wrong, Wall Street Journal, is working hard to justify Countries like Canada, Mexico, China, and too many others to name, continue the decades long RIPOFF OF AMERICA, both with regard to TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS that are allowed to so freely flow into AMERICA,
Trump wrote Sunday morning on Truth Social We allow them to take lumber
Last month, Trump said of Canada specifically If the president is going abuse this power to bully and coerce our allies, Congress should take this authority back,
Coons said in a statement The imposition of tariffs is unprecedented, won’t solve these problems and will only raise prices for American families and upend supply chains,
the chamber’s John Murphy told CNN He’s using American workers as pawns in his petty political games. If a president promised that they’d help my family get by, and then they did this, I’d be pretty pissed off. So, you should be pissed off,
Martin said in a statement We are engaging at all levels, trying to convince the Trump administration that in the end, imposing tariffs on the European Union would trigger retaliatory tariffs from our side and this would be, in the end, a total lose lose situation.”
We have absolutely no interest in starting any kind of trade conflict,
We want to reduce the barriers to trade, make it easier for businesses,
Tariff increases really right across the world can have a really damaging impact on global growth and trade, so I don't think it's what anybody wants to see."
Asked about Mr Trump's announcement, she told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg The administration is playing with fire,
said Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM It’s not like everyone will mark up their shelves tomorrow, and then it’s done,
The Dumbest Trade War in History.”
The Wall Street Journal went a step further, publishing a scathing op-ed on Saturday titled
