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Maybe. Maybe China will start subsidizing their mail instead of having the US do it.
by oh_sigh 7y ago
Maybe. Maybe China will start subsidizing their mail instead of having the US do it.
- microcolonel 7y agoIt is their prerogative, either way. I always assumed it was them paying the subsidies all along.
- kelnos 7y agoNot sure why you're being downvoted; that's a perfectly reasonable prediction. If shipping costs start reducing shipments of goods to the US by any appreciable amount, and the Chinese government wants to offset that, a subsidy is a reasonable way for them to do it. And I'd much rather the Chinese government subsidize their citizen's postage than the US government doing it for them.
- Danieru 7y agoChina would need to use their foreign reserve to do this subsidy. Ignoring belt and road all of China's internal industry subsidies use Yaun. Belt and Road use dollars but are "lent" thus in theory China is not reducing its foreign reserve. Problem for China as we see in their capital controls is maintaining wealth in Yaun. Any subsidy which requires using foreign dollars, as paying the US postal tarrif would, weakens the states stability.