Trump tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China begin Saturday, White House says

The Trump administration does not seem to share Biden’s and Europe’s zeal to see Ukrainians dying. Its central focus seems to be on the “malign influence of China.” I expect that to go well.

 

As always,the devil will be in the details and we will see ultimately what industries / friends of the administration get an exclusion.

 

You don’t think Ukrainians will die once Ukraine dies? Ha, OK.

 

I notice that you didn't include this part of your article in your description of the event. Let me help you out:

Pretty rare to see that immediate and consistently negative effect to voluntary fiscal policy.

 

No, because then there will be no more Ukrainians left and the Lindsey Grahams of the world will be satisfied that they put up a good fight for America.

 

story has nothing to do with Ukraine. let's stick to tariffs, please

 

fentanyl Is a national crisis which is worthy of strong measures. But can Mexico and especially Canada stop it? They don’t want it in their countries either.

• In 2021, U.S. citizens were 86.3 percent of convicted fentanyl drug traffickers—ten times greater than convictions of illegal immigrants for the same offense.
• Over 90 percent of fentanyl seizures occur at legal crossing points or interior vehicle checkpoints, not on illegal migration routes, so U.S. citizens (who are subject to less scrutiny) when crossing legally are the best smugglers.

https://www.cato.org/blog/fentanyl-smuggled-us-citizens-us-citizens-not-asylum-seekers

 

Well, that is downright false. A fair number of traffickers are from the US. Cartels love them because they are less likely to run into issues going north with the product.

Not much. The whole point of fentanyl is because it is easy to move and hard to catch.

 

Agree. He refuses to accept reality. Even if all illegal migration was completely stopped there would be very little impact on the supply of fentanyl. Virtually all illicit fentanyl in the US is combined with legal cargo and smuggled into the US at legal ports of entry.

 

It is even worse than that: fentanyl doesn't even need to be packed/hidden with legal cargo. You can outfit a motorcycle to smuggle fairly large values of fentanyl. It is very concentrated. Fentanyl is what happens when you crank enforcement up against everything else.

 

Trump reasserts towering 100% tariff threat against BRICS countries

 

brics should agree given the unenforcability

 

Apparently Donald Trump thought that America was great in 1930 which may explain why he is deciding to emulate Senator Smoot, Representative Hawley and President Hoover.
Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act - Wikipedia
The Tariff Act of 1930 (codified at 19 U.S.C. ch. 4), commonly known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff or Hawley–Smoot Tariff,[1] was a law that implemented protectionist trade policies in the United States. Sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley, it was signed by President Herbert Hoover on June 17, 1930. The act raised US tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods.[2]

The tariffs under the act, excluding duty-free imports, were the second highest in United States history, exceeded by only the Tariff of 1828.[3] The Act prompted retaliatory tariffs by many other countries.[4] The Act and tariffs imposed by America's trading partners in retaliation were major factors of the reduction of American exports and imports by 67% during the Great Depression.[5] Economists and economic historians are agreed that the passage of the Smoot–Hawley Tariff worsened the effects of the Great Depression.[6]

 

Is he trying to run the country like a business tycoon? If yeah, let's see how that works out.

 

Not a great time to be in the importer business