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Trump to Impose Additional 10% Tariff on Chinese Goods
- RenRav 7y agoDoes this affect solar cells and the like?
- mdorazio 7y agoSeems like this is meant to target basically everything not already hit with the previous 25% tariff, so yes it would affect electronics, solar cells, and many other everyday items coming from China.
- trilila 7y agoJust a thought. Meanwhile the EU will not impose tariffs on chinese goods, some might argue, so Germany can freely access the chinese market. Apparently goods made in eastern europe and sold in germany are lOw quAlITY, but those made in china are not. And while in that part of europe, strict eu regulations have to be followed, in china one can violate human rights and even employ children and therefore underprice east eu manufacturers. Thus, the eu internal market is highly out of balance, and ending up with massive internal migration and political turmoil. No wonder the UK is leaving.
- imtringued 7y agoI don't really understand. Are you saying countries leave the EU because they can't ignore human rights and employ child labor to stay competitive?
- trilila 7y agoCountries leave the EU because of Germany's dictatorship. One of it's directives is tolerating chinese abuse of labor.
- darkteflon 7y agoNonsense, man. Germany’s done a fantastic job of keeping a liberal centrist - _humanist_ - coalition together in extremely difficult circumstances and under assault from predatory oligarchs from Moscow to London to Kansas.
- germanier 7y agoThere is exactly one country trying to leave the EU, the issue is far more complex than "Germany's dictatorship", and no Brexiteer ever said anything about changing the stance towards Chinese labour.
- rad_gruchalski 7y agoYeah, no... it is the UK looking for Chinese investments in the wake of Brexit. Example: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3014989/china-britain-trade-deal-secured-despite-uks-hong-kong https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3014989/ch...
- jdsully 7y agoAt this point I’m fairly certain a trade deal with china won’t happen and we’re just being weaned off our dependency on their manufacturing.
- erentz 7y agoThat actually sounds like a not totally unreasonable thing to do. I’m not so certain that’s actually what going on or that it’s being handled the best. But the US having a large dependency on a totalitarian state that imprisons millions in concentration camps seems like a bad idea. In a way we fed this beast that is modern totalitarian China by opening up trade with it. Expected liberalization that people use to sell trade with such countries (and to admonish sanctions), sadly did not actually follow in this case. The totalitarian state seems as strong as ever and is investing heavily in keeping it that way. I guess a statement like that might draw a lot of what about X or Y. But at least with some of those other totalitarian states we deal with you can say they’re small, easy to handle both economically and militarily.
- o-__-o 7y agoHow can you say that with the knowledge of our country’s history and continued acceptance of slavery. Hypocritical at best
- Konnstann 7y agoWhat do you mean by continued acceptance? If I remember correctly the US was one of the first western countries to abolish slavery. Also, history vs present are two very different things. Germany has a history of being a nationalist genocidal state, but you wouldn't criticize Angela Merkel for speaking out against antisemitism or nationalism.
- o-__-o 7y agoGo reread the 13th amendment. Slavery is alive and well. Will make you look at police in a different light
- sjg007 7y agoSo a rate cut and then govt sponsored inflation.. hmm... not sure what to think. We do need China to buy agricultural products though. I like the idea of reducing fentanyl too. China needs to regulate the precursors.
- Fjolsvith 7y agoWhy do you say that a 10% tariff on Chinese goods is govt sponsored inflation?