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you're an airhead with no take
Show your link to the text of the signed trade agreements and clear this up for all of us.
you're an airhead with no take
as yet unannounced tariffs will be collected starting on Friday
Says the guy who dropped a BlueSky screenshot with no take, and lol Gasparino. You couldn't have picked a Wall Street bro with worse takes on tariffs.
As soon as Trump dies, the tariffs can be changed again.
And the inflated prices will remain.
This is not a gotcha moment but what is a gotcha moment is your silence during the past 4 yrs. I wonder why you were so silent about inflationary prices back then? Hmm...
Everyone knows exactly why inflation happened after COVID.
Everyone knows inflation was moderating near the end of the Biden administration.
Everyone knows Trump's tariff taxes will increase inflation.
Why is anyone fighting this?
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/30/p...xecutive-orderTrump puts 50% tariffs on Brazil and copper, eliminates a tax loophole and hints at new deals
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Trump signed executive actions on Wednesday imposing a 50% tariff on Brazil, a 50% tariff on certain copper products and suspending a tax perk for all countries that allowed cheap packages to fly into the US duty-free.
He also announced in a Truth Social post that his administration has a trade framework in place with Pakistan, although details were thin. Trump said the agreement, if completed, would include developing Pakistan’s oil reserves with a yet-to-be-named oil company.
And Trump said his administration will meet with a South Korean trade delegation Wednesday afternoon. South Korea has been long expected to be among the next countries in line to hammer out a trade framework with the United States.
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The order that Trump signed on Wednesday, which increases Brazil’s tariff by 40 percentage points, effective early next month, accuses the Brazilian government of “serious human rights abuses that have undermined the rule of law in Brazil.”
The new tariff on Brazil appeared to be spurred by non-economic matters.
Bolsonaro, who has bragged about his closeness with Trump, is facing trial for allegedly attempting to stage a coup against Lula. Trump has publicly objected to that proceeding, and his order alleged Bolsonaro’s prosecution was “politically motivated.”
“The Order finds that the Government of Brazil’s politically motivated persecution, intimidation, harassment, censorship, and prosecution of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and thousands of his supporters are serious human rights abuses that have undermined the rule of law in Brazil,” the order reads.
The announcement of the increased tariff rate comes the same day that the United States is sanctioning Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, 12 days after announcing visa restrictions against him and other court officials over Bolsonaro’s trial.
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Brazil is one of the few major economies with which the United States runs a trade surplus.
Lol 50%.
It's TACO time
Trump just tacos after a phone call with Sheinbaum
Deadline with Mexico extended 90 days
Ford says Trump tariffs to cost it about $2bn this year
Motor industry giant Ford says it expects tariffs to cost it about $2bn (£1.5bn) this year, which is more than previously expected, despite building most of its cars in America.
The company says it had already paid an extra $800m in duties in the three months ending in June. It also suffered losses related to cutting an electric vehicle programme.
It is the latest indication of the impact of US President Donald Trump's tariffs on major American firms and the challenges ahead as he seeks to reshape global supply chains.
But Ford is seeing a less pronounced tariffs impact than some of its compe ors as much of its manufacturing is in the US.
Ford's finance chief Sherry House said the firm had raised its forecast for the cost of tariffs on its business because levies on Mexico and Canada, where it has facilities, have remained higher for longer than expected.
She also pointed to US tariffs on imported aluminium and steel.
Last week, rival carmaker General Motors said tariffs had already cost it more than $1bn, while Volkswagen put its hit at $1.5bn.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn47v5gj1nvo
No problem just bail them out again
taxing unfinished industrial inputs is dumb, unless Trump is trying to extort US industry at the same time
Trump 2.0 writ large has basically taken the form of an extortion racket
You didn't mind Biden's steel and aluminum tariffs
I pointed out the continuity in this thread, none of y'all cared at the time
y'all are very late to point out the similarities with Biden from my point of view
that aside, the conceit that Trump's extreme 2025 tariffs are little different than Trump 1.0 or Biden is absurd
They're historically large and comprehensive
They're also based on pretextual bull
You don't believe Trump’s tariffs are any good.
Trump's tariffs hurt Ford's made in America strategy
Ford will pay tariffs on Mexican and Canadian parts to make cars in the USA that are higher than tariffs on Japanese, EU, or S. Korean made cars.
Trump just put US auto manufacturing at a disadvantage to its main compe ors -- Ford expects to lose ~$2B just this year to Trump's new import taxes.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/ford-trump-tariffs-made-in-america-df94b933
Maybe complete economic collapse of USA will manage to distract voters from Epstein files.
I expect something short of total collapse in the short term, it may take a few years of graft and maladministration -- and federal police state expansion -- to wreck the USA and its good reputation forever
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/02/a...and-china-intlTrump’s tariffs are sending African countries into China’s hands
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China has offered to soften the impact of US tariffs on Africa, saying in June it would halt charges on imports for nearly all its African partners.
“There is no other opportunity for African countries to strengthen South-South trade (among developing nations) than now,” South African researcher Neo Letswalo told CNN, while urging countries to “solely turn to China and make it the next US.”
“America is gradually forfeiting its global leadership status,” Letswalo said, adding that the more countries “become less dependent on the US, the greater opportunity for China to become an alternative.”
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The new Trump business tax is going to hit the bottom line of businesses and households
https://archive.is/Tj89D#selection-3795.0-4175.107Small businesses will bear the worst of the tariffs blow because they do not have the cash reserves or economies of scale to absorb the new charges, says Richard Trent, executive director of the Main Street Alliance, a small business industry group.
“They have to eat the losses, pass them onto consumers, or shutter altogether. The outlook is bleak on Main Street,” he says.
Big business is hurting too. And for some of America’s biggest companies, the tariff bills are not tens of thousands of dollars but multiple billions.
Carmaker Ford made a $36m loss between April and June, compared with a $1.8bn profit during the same period a year earlier, because it had to pay $800m in tariff costs.
It warned that it expected to pay at least $2bn on tariffs over the full year.
Although Ford manufactures its cars within the US, it imports many of the parts and materials – many of which are subject to Trump’s 50pc tariffs on steel and aluminium.
General Motors, another major US carmaker, said last week that tariffs had knocked $1.1bn off its operating income in Q2. Household goods giant Procter & Gamble similarly warned this week of a $1bn hit to its profits from tariffs and said it will begin making price rises on a quarter of its products from next month.
“There isn’t any getting away from the fact this is a huge, huge increase in the US tariff rate,” says Brian Coulton, the chief economist at Fitch Ratings.
Thereal economic toll is still yet to come, says Coulton.
Over the next six months, businesses will pass on much more of the cost of tariffs onto consumers, he says.
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