Get ready for coffee prices to soar under Trump, too -- Colombian Tariffs Coming

What was the deficit when Trump left office in 2020? Biden spent more than $9 trillion.

 

If every single Colombian import disappeared overnight, it would barely be noticed here

on the flip side, if 30% of Colombia’s exports were hit with a 50% tariff, they’d be begging for relief in a week.

 

I hope not, but even if he does, I'm pretty sure we'll be able to identify what we got for the spending. eg--last time, it was the Covid fueled 7+ trillion dollar spending orgy foray into socialism.

(And yes, I was quite vocal in my opposition to that fleecing. Meanwhile, I don't recall you ever once, putting your Doh! Biden pom poms down to say boo about any of his drunken waste...).

 

Exactly. I'm trembling in my boots at the prospect of increased coffee imports from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua...local/ domestic growers stepping up to fill on the void...

Terrifying I tell you...

 

Unhinged much? Ever say anything that's true?

 

20% of coffee comes from Columbia. That will be noticed.

I don’t think this on its own would be a big deal, except we know Trump wants to put tariffs on… basically everyone. Is he going to do this every time now.

 

Trump should put tariffs on everyone to force them to accept all of our illegal immigrants that we will deport.......and then we'll just let everyone come back because our economy needs the workers.

Yay Trump - so strong!

 

Trump doesn't care about anybody else, as long as he wins. Strong arming/blackmailing folks is not a smart business tactic. Dude has IQ of a fifth grader. Going to be a long 4 years, maybe longer..

 

Wasn't he going to put tariffs on Mexico and Panama too?

 

Honestly he probably will cave. 20% tariff vs a couple of plane loads of people? I’m guessing there are interests in that country that care far more about $1B in coffee trade. So it’s not just our side that’s being stupid/irrational here.

 

"I'll do tariffs on you!!"

 

It’s only been 2 weeks, give it time

 

the absolute best part is that it's been less than one week

 

Cool, so he will raise the cost of coffee! Glad that he is committed to making people in the US pay higher prices.

 

Pres Gustavo Petro post on X. To read it select translate at bottom. If this is really his account he actually sounds as unhinged as Trump.

 

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and by the way... coffee is a commodity. Like an actual futures-traded commodity. Intercontinental Exchange. Tariffs would have zero impact unless most countries embargoed Colombian coffee.

 

Translation….

“Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.

I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller

I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country

I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.

You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.

They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else.

Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.

My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.

You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us.

Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.

I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA,

Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness.

FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same.

Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world”

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So what you are saying is that it won't hurt them then, since they could just sell it elsewhere?