254
US imposes 104% tariffs on Chinese goods effective immediately
(m.economictimes.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
254 points (99.6% liked)
World News
445 readers
670 users here now
Please help and contribute as we vote on rules:
https://quokk.au/post/21590
Other Great Communities:
Rules
Be excellent to each other
founded 10 months ago
MODERATORS
Dear world,
Just fucking embargo us already. Make the GOP remove the fucker from office.
Sincerely,
A desperate American
You're well on your way to effectively embargoing yourselves by the looks of it
ftfy.
We really should be handling our own shit here.
I would but my military doesn't have nukes
And replace him with... a more competent fascist? Tariffs are, if anything, lowering the difficulty of getting the fascists out of office by causing real harm to the average person before the Trump regime has consolidated enough power to stop a mass movement. Tariffs are the silver lining in the shit sandwich that is project 2025, and rather than just Trump all the GOP and most of the DNC should be banished from politics effective immediately.
You have a second amendment precisely for circumstances like this. Clean up your own yard.
Sic Semper some damned Tyrannis already.
This is our mess, probably need to start fucking up magats
What we have right now is the best opportunity to end this administration peacefully by causing a GOP revolt against him. But to do that, we need the world to help make this as painful as possible.
Yeah but I’m not seeing any magats doing anything other than mental gymnastics to convince themselves that this is fine. I think they need to start getting their asses beat down for voting for this shit show and regressing us 100 years at least
In some ways that’s what Trump wants. If people can’t buy (afford) the item then they will make it in the US. Once tariffs and markup make it profitable to manufacture in the US then someone will make it there.
However if the raw material or components aren’t available or there is a limited supply (export quota from china) then it will never be adorable to manufacture them in the US. China has already cut some exports to the US along these lines.
Well, the problem here is time. Trump (and the electoral cycle tbh) is so goddamn volatile and supply chains take so long to organize, that a change really is as good as a rest in this case. By the time they manage to re-organize supply chains and get new domestic supply off the ground, it'll be three or four years from now probably, and at the rate things are changing, who fucking knows what things will look like by then. It's just as possible that all this tariff stuff ends tomorrow as it is to persist, so it's safer all around to wait and see.