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Without coercion today, why would anybody try to give the US a break at the cost of its other trading partners...?
by jleyank 8mo ago
Without coercion today, why would anybody try to give the US a break at the cost of its other trading partners...?
- charcircuit 8mo agoBecause the US has the strongest economy in the world.
- leptons 8mo agoOr, it's the biggest house of cards.
- kspacewalk2 8mo agoBecause a corporation doesn't have trading partners, it has a mission to sell to customers. If customers are disproportionately in the US, which happens quite often, then you can entirely rationally decide that pissing them off with a big price hike is worse for the bottom line than pissing everyone off a little. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/global-retailers-tariff-strategy-risks-spreading-pain-beyond-us-consumer-2025-05-20/ https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/global-reta...
- nullocator 8mo agoWhy would they be pissed off at the business for not absorbing the tariff? The business didn't arbitrarily enact them, Donald Trump and ipso facto his supports did.