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So right after ending the war in Ukraine, Infrastructure Week and the new health care plan....
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1912972431725121874
It's kind of bonkers. Even the ~$50 experimental order I made on 4/2 was originally said to be returned to sender. Now all that delivery history is gone and it says it has been waiting to be picked up by the shipper all along. The real chaos is about to hit the consumer when stuff doesn't get here to replenish inventories.
So right after ending the war in Ukraine, Infrastructure Week and the new health care plan....
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1912972431725121874
Getting moar Asian masks?
you're so pissy today. #YouTried
The supply crunch is already hitting US exports
The economic pain will be widespread this time, even if Trump rescinds the tariffs
WSJ: “.. So that morning, when Navarro was .. in a different part of the White House, Bessent and Lutnick made their move ..
“.. They rushed to the Oval Office to .. propose a pause ..
“.. They stayed until Trump tapped out a Truth Social post ..” �� www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Production of exports doesn't matter, if you don't have the shipping to export it.
That's sort of what I'm talking about. Blanked shipments from China leave us short of containers to ship our own products in
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025...fs-board-gamesTariffs against China threaten the booming board game industry
Board games have been booming. But the industry is starting to collapse under the weight of hefty tariffs against China, where most board games are produced.
“People are losing their jobs, publishers are already closing,” said Sam Bryant of Runaway Parade Games. “Containers full of games that were bound for the U.S. market are now sitting in warehouses in China.”
Bryant and co-owner Gwen Ruelle paused Chinese shipments of their game “Fire Tower” as tariffs against China climbed to 145%. They also delayed crowdfunding their next game, “Punch Bowl.”
“The uncertainty is one of the worst parts,” said Ruelle. “Not being able to make a new plan because the goalpost is always shifting and production takes a long time — it takes between four and six months to make a product.”
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The slopes are still mad at Truman..."Again!"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business...inese-airlinesBoeing begins flying back planes refused by Chinese airlines
The US plane manufacturer Boeing has begun flying 737 Max jets that were refused by Chinese airline customers back to the United States, as the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies escalates.
Bloomberg reported earlier this week that China had instructed airlines to stop taking delivery of Boeing jets.
The first jet, at the company’s Zhoushan completion centre in China and intended for Xiamen Air, flew from Zhoushan to Guam, the first leg across the Pacific, according to data from FlightRadar24.
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Choose your scapegoat:
Nothing has been finalized, but the working group would likely include Vice President J.D. Vance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett, Council of Economic Advisers chairman Stephen Miran and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, sources said.
https://x.com/CBSNews/status/1913351835110314045
Turns out the Magic Negro swore he was going to do what Trump has done but the MN didn't.
Bailout committee
Could be another Trump stimmy in the making...
those aren't inflation/deficit neutral
at least they weren't when there was a (D) in charge
as a temporary saving throw for a tariff-induced supply shock
it might make sense
They don't even know how insignificant they are going to be within ten years bc of the demographics. Nation builder, lol
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ce=reddit_wallUS Imposes Tariffs Up to 3,521% on Southeast Asia Solar Imports
The United States imposed substantial new tariffs reaching up to 3,521 per cent on solar imports from select Southeast Asian nations, supporting local manufacturers whilst creating additional challenges for the country's renewable energy sector.
The tariffs, announced on Monday, follow a year-long trade investigation that concluded solar producers in Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand received unfair government subsidies and exported products to the US below production costs. The inquiry, initiated under former President Joe Biden, was requested by American solar manufacturers.
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Short-term, Trump is bankrupting corn and soybean farmers
Medium-term, Trump will have effectively given away US market share in China to other countries.
https://www.world-grain.com/articles...soybean-ordersThe trade wars have cost the United States its position as China’s No. 1 soybean supplier. Brazil has taken that spot, and Nikkei reported that Chinese negotiators traveled to Brazil last week to hold bilateral discussions to further expand imports of Brazilian soybeans.
Although no longer China’s biggest soybean supplier, the United States still sends about half of its soybean exports to the world’s second most populous country. In 2024, China imported more than 27 million tonnes of soybeans from the United States, worth $12.8 billion, according to the USDA.
Soybean farmers across the United States applauded Trump’s recent announcement that most of the countries impacted by US tariffs would get a 90-day reprieve, providing an opportunity for negotiations. With the pause came a rate drop to 10% for each of the countries itemized during that announcement — except for China.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cleve...114200251.html
- Cleveland-Cliffs is laying off workers in Michigan and Minnesota as the steelmaker attempts to mitigate the knock-on effects of the Trump administration's tariffs on steel and auto imports.
- The company plans to idle some operations at its Dearborn, Michigan, plant due to falling automotive demand, leading to 600 job cuts, according to an emailed company statement. Cleveland-Cliffs will also idle operations at two iron oremines in Minnesota, resulting in 630 layoffs.
- "These actions will allow the company to operate more efficiently and in a more cost compe ive way for the current market environment," the company said in its statement. "We believe that, once President Trump’s policies take full effect and automotive production is re-shored, we should be able to resume steel production at Dearborn Works."
https://thecradle.co/articles/china-...lace-us-supplyChina signs major LNG deals with UAE to replace US supply
State-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) agreed on 21 April to a term deal to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Abu Dhabi National Oil Corp (ADNOC), the third supply contract the energy-rich West Asian nation has signed with Chinese buyers in recent days.
CNOOC's Gas and Power Group agreed to a five-year deal starting in 2026 to buy 500,000 metric tons of LNG annually, an industry source with knowledge of the deal told Reuters.
Private Chinese firm ENN Natural Gas and Beijing-owned Zhenhua Oil each signed a term contract over the weekend to secure liquified natural gas from ADNOC, the British news agency added.
ENN's 15-year contract is the largest and will see the firm buy one million tons of LNG from Abu Dhabi annually starting in 2028.
Chinese LNG buyers are seeking to resell US-sourced LNG cargoes to avoid the new tariff costs imposed by Beijing and to secure new deals from other nations to replace the US supply.
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in one fell swoop, Dumb Donny turned the whole world against the USA
America alone
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