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Colombia's President Responds to Trump's 50% Tariffs with Counter Tariffs; 'I Will Resist You' (www.latintimes.com)
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"Your blockade does not scare me... I am informed that you're imposing a 50% import tariff on us; I do the same," the Colombian President wrote on social media.

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[-] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

Only if those American importers had the foresight to buy coffee, or coffee options, earlier.

What happened now was that American importers and speculators immediately scrambled to buy coffee to avoid tariffs and this drove up global prices.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago

Oh I see. That makes sense.

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