Not true.
Americas largest trade partners making up $2trillion of US imports are:
Mexico
China
EU
Canada
And none of them have engaged in negotiations.
The ones wanting to negotiate are small fry
You are funny
America is the big loser.
how soon will Trump back down over tariffs
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Americas largest trade partners making up $2trillion of US imports are:
Mexico
China
EU
Canada
And none of them have engaged in negotiations.
The ones wanting to negotiate are small fry
It is impossible to know what the strategy is, if any.
Is it, as some believe, really about isolating China. If so, why throw allies and the whole global trade system under the bus. These are the countries Trump needs to get on board. But how can they trust him now.
Simply by giving them a binary choice.
There goes another rib
To isolate America I.e rebuild it’s industrial base.
No
To re-assert America's economic supremacy
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So this is the position he assumes everyone will accept, as it's so much less than he started threatening - the way he always works.
Back around 1900, McKinley and others used tariffs on tinplate which was a big deal at the time. Upsohot was tha they did raise signifcant revenues; the economy ran in surplus. It did bring forward the US tinplate industry by ten years to ten years, butthe assessment I just read claimed it wasn't worthwile overall because of the price and lack of the stuff which everyone suffered in the interim.
Back then it was the British Commonwealth which was the antagonist.
Trump likes McKinley. He has renamed the mountain which was Denali, for a time. (Helluva nice mountain, I've flown around it, as a tourist).
Lutnik sidestepped a question about whether it wasn't a good idea to use cheap foreign labour to have simple stuff made, implying he wanted a load of people in the USA doing the cheap work. It's obvious where that leads, and it raises problems. Previous generations of Murricans of course had the huge benefit of a classes of underlings doing that sort of work. ie. African Americans and HIspanics. Not so easy now. He's alienating both groups through his anti-diversity agenda , or keeping them the other side of a fence.
Not 'unclear', simply inconvenient for you
And the key word is 'retaliatory'...
Who started this chaos?
Oh that's right, that's also inconvenient for you...
You're not looking very hard...
And now you are also calling it a 'discount'...
When is it a discount when you are still paying more than before?
The orange rapist has a dislike for anyone but himself...
And starmer had no choice but to sit on the fence, since the UK is a small country without the clout of the EU standing by our side!
In comparison to untrustworthy, lying rapist and convicted felon Trump, you mean?
Maybe that was the "medicine" Trump was talking about?
Simply? You mean once Trump has made his mind up and has finished back peddling and flip-flopping?
Binary my arse. The bloke is an idiot.
Trump makes policy depending on his digestion - one bad happy meal and the world's economy will suffer.
That doesn’t engender trust
The whole world now views America as untrustworthy and isolationist.
The West can’t even trust the USA administration with security intelligence because they are directly connected to,and aligned with Putin.
Before Trump started American exports faced an average 2% tariff, Trumps meddling has made that 6%
America is the country taking Trump medicine.
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