TARIFFS..............

"In many cases, the friend is worse than the foe in terms of trade," Trump has said.

The U.S. had an overall trade deficit of $918.4 billion — an increase of $133.5 billion — in 2024.

China, the latest import tax of 34% comes on top of a 20% tariff on Chinese imports that the second Trump administration already put into effect — so the total Trump 2.0 duty on China now stands at 54%.

Now ,that tariffs are starting to kick-in..Things could get reeeeal hairy out there...

I Pray ,,,President Trump knows what he's doing

Trump's tariff plan includes a 10% baseline tariff on goods from all countries, a dramatic shift in current U.S. trade policy.

The baseline tariff applies to about 185 countries in all,

Trump said he is imposing additional tailored tariffs on about 60 countries that contribute the most to the U.S. trade deficit and have placed the most barriers on U.S. exports.

Vintage Trump from 1988 with Oprah! Enjoy the clip! Very classy!

President Trump on Oprah Winfrey’s show in 1988.“I’d make our allies pay their fair share.” Today he did just that — The Donald

Tariffs punishes everyone except for the government - so it is basically just you guys accepting to pay more taxes on everything you buy  they work when it is the world that does it to a country - doesn’t work like he thinks when it is a country doing it to the world - then they just find other trading partners - expect your guys financial markets to take a big nose dive this week 

The fact alone that he like an idiot put them on everything and everyone - which hurts every American company that buy components from abroad (just as much as us) - where China and Europe counter tariffs not only doesn’t hurt us at all but also specifically hurt employments in Republican states - show who knows what they are doing and who doesn’t  -  you should think he atleast knew how they worked since he has had 4 years to plan this 

I sell a lot of wood from Canada.....

Thankfully only 10% increase to us..

25% would have fucked us bad....

@Calde13

 He didn’t put tariffs on every country.  Somehow Russia, Belarus and North Korea dodged them.

Russia, Belarus ,North Korea  and Cuba are not subject to the Reciprocal Tariff Executive Order because they are already facing extremely high tariffs..

Boom . In yo face Hank . 

General Motors (GM) plans to expand production at of light-duty trucks at the automaker’s Fort Wayne Assembly Plant in Indiana, one of its plants in Indiana thanks to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign-made cars.

On Wednesday evening, Trump announced a 25% tariff on all foreign-made cars to protect the nation’s auto industry from unfair trade competition.

President Trump bringing back production to America..

What are they Professor?

People cant seem to understand that trumpy could wave a magic wand and have every factory and job back here overnight and that still wont bring down the cost of products. Thats due to the fact that American workers will never work for the wages that companies got from overseas labor. So making the products here wont lower the prices.  Ronald reagan created this whole mess when he didnt stop companies from moving overseas for the cheap labor.  Hes the direct reason we lost factories and jobs.  Now all of us have becolme addicted to cheap products, people arent gonna wanna pay the high prices for things being made in America.  They are gonna still want the cheap stuff.

The whole world is basically one giant economy, but trump wants to isolate us from everyone. All those other countries are just gonna make new trading deals with each other and tell the USA to go pound salt. This is gonna end very bad for the Country, real shame we still have blind sheep still jumping over the cliff for trump.  Happy cliff jumping to all the magas everywhere.

 Libs think we should just stay the course & let it all just fix itself. 

@SarasotaSlim

 Watch the video clip of Pelosi from 1996 talking about it.  
Then ask what changed.  She points the issue out back then.  But now that someone is trying to fix it, where is the support for fixing it. 

Thats okay muggsy, when our country is left behind by all the other countries in the world when they find new alliances, magas across the country will be jumping up and down, because one of magas favorite beliefs is 'misery loves company"

One economist said today trump is a total fool for trying to bring back manufacturing jobs back here is the wrong approach.  We dont need those old style of jobs here making products. Magas will never be able to grasp that, because they themselves are still living in the civil war era.

I still believe putin told trumpy to do this, because he knew it would weaken the USA, something he has always wanted.  TRUMPY =PUTINS RUSSIAN ASSET

China also had existing tariffs yet were additionally saddled with 29% more in tariffs.

Yet Russia, Belarus and North Korea were added with no sanctions.

As most people know who are following this thread...........The US does not trade with Russia and Belarus and that they were under sanctions..... and because there was no meaningful trade with the 4 nations ..... that why they were not included ...

@SarasotaSlim

 He does. You need to relax… this is a sports forum and this kind of rhetoric depreciates the standard of relevant conversation. If you’re so worried that you need to post your thoughts in a forum, go to the proper site to do so brother. I’m not being rude but this isn’t the place… 

@wildwelder303

 Captain

You are not rude ,,,just misinformed......

One of the central claims of free trade itself—that production migrates to wherever it’s most efficient.

This will never change..........as long as the country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state

I worst thing any country,in the world can do is to retaliate on the the Trump tariffs.............

Resistance is futile ..Save your country and make a deal ...quick..

Tidbit:

US President Donald Trump imposed a 50% reciprocal tariff on the tiny southern African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, the highest levy for any sovereign nation.........Lesotho charges 99% tariffs on American goods...

Get em' all ...and get the little ones twice......

@THEMUGG

 Magas want to put it it the hands of a 6 time bankrupt loser, an absolute compulsive liar, a racist, 

Didn't finish. A man who steals, commits adultery, lies on every occasion. I could go on. Last but not least. he's a documented psychopath. Look up the true meaning of psychopath. Oh yeah, one more thing, he's not smart, which kinda makes him dumb. Yea that's the guy I want, cause I know he truly cares about doing the right thing