US trade war - suggested retaliatory tariffs?

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wilso1

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moorey said:
You really think we have anythin, or we could do anything that he cares about? I mean personally cares about? He only does things that benefit him personally.
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Nope, not for a moment. Australia is too small a market to have any impact on the US. And I completely agree that he only cares about things which affect his personal wealth.

This is nothing more than having some fun (and maybe dreaming that we might be important).
 
Dales Cannon

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Industrial strength viagra? Nah, he uses 100% of that.

Oz is but a choked piss in a very large urinal.
 
Ultra Lord

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Keep it.

Guerilla gravity and s&m are what we need. Also I think the only bikes still made that we get here.
 
pink poodle

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I believe that most of the well known American made bike brands used the excuse of Taiwanese/Chinese carbon expertise to shift all their manufacturing. But they don't seem to have shifted their prices to match.
 
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Skydome

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IF we're cleaver about this the trade tariffs could actually be of benefit to us. We'd have to get the exemption first of course but than we'd have to apply trade tariffs to a good portion of SE Asia and Europe, if the U.S only gets Canada Mexico and Australia exempted it could mean companies that need steel would have a limited number of markets they could get them from and it could push up steel exports here which would help steel makers in S.A and elsewhere.

But I don't see Turncoat as smart enough to pull that grand daddy trick of politics off.
 
scblack

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Skydome said:
IF we're cleaver about this the trade tariffs could actually be of benefit to us. We'd have to get the exemption first of course but than we'd have to apply trade tariffs to a good portion of SE Asia and Europe, if the U.S only gets Canada Mexico and Australia exempted it could mean companies that need steel would have a limited number of markets they could get them from and it could push up steel exports here which would help steel makers in S.A and elsewhere.

But I don't see Turncoat as smart enough to pull that grand daddy trick of politics off.
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But nah...

He is smart enough to know that the REAL risk of these tariff increases by Trump is in the tit-for-tat response by other countries. That's where the real risk to world economic growth is. Thus it has to be a very gently handled response.
 
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Skydome

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scblack said:
But nah...

He is smart enough to know that the REAL risk of these tariff increases by Trump is in the tit-for-tat response by other countries. That's where the real risk to world economic growth is. Thus it has to be a very gently handled response.
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I don't deny it would be extremely difficult to come out on top but I don't think it would be impossible either.

If north american based companies can't afford the 25 percent tariff (I think it was?) and we can export at a much more competitive rate than the tariff aeffected goods we could very increase our exports and make some money.

The thing we'd have to consider is if we are able to do that than we'd probably also become an offloading ground for tariff aeffected goods so we'd need to implement our own trade tariffs to stop product from getting dumped here.

very difficult to do but i think it would possible, hard, very hard, yes, but possible imo.
 
Knuckles

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Skydome said:
I don't deny it would be extremely difficult to come out on top but I don't think it would be impossible either.

If north american based companies can't afford the 25 percent tariff (I think it was?) and we can export at a much more competitive rate than the tariff aeffected goods we could very increase our exports and make some money.

The thing we'd have to consider is if we are able to do that than we'd probably also become an offloading ground for tariff aeffected goods so we'd need to implement our own trade tariffs to stop product from getting dumped here.

very difficult to do but i think it would possible, hard, very hard, yes, but possible imo.
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The easiest and best way to deal with this shit idea, is to let it ride.

The real long term looser from Trump's tariffs will be the US. Their metal production industry is highly localised, and miniscule compared with their manufacturing and agriculture sectors, both of which are under the pump already and have been highly subsidised by successive administrations for years.

The second biggest looser will be Trump. The GOP has been rabidly pro free trade forever, and the democrats are actually finding some love for him now.

He's already lost his chief economics advisor, who is actually responsible for the only major piece of legislation Trump has managed to enact, over it. Expect a lot more of what's left of the inner circle to distance themselves from him.
 
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