Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on some of its largest trading partners on Wednesday, upending decades of US trade policy and threatening to unleash a global trade war on what he has dubbed “liberation day”.
“This is one of the most important days, in my opinion, in American history,” Trump said, speaking on the White House lawn. For decades America had been “looted, pillaged and raped” by its trading partners, he said. “In many cases, the friend is worse than the foe.”
Trump said he intends to impose “reciprocal tariffs” on foreign imports, charging US trading partners the same duties imposed by the country of origin on the same goods. Among other examples, Trump criticized European bans on imported chicken, Canada’s tariffs on dairy, and Japan’s levies on rice.
Trump said the US would charge half of the fees he feels trading partners unfairly impose on the US because the US people are “very kind”.
Saw this on another article lmao, did he just get a list of countries and start throwing numbers out at random.
Incredibly, it appears the Trump regime has imposed a 10% tariff on goods coming from the Heard and McDonald Islands, an Australian territory which lies in between Madagascar and Antarctica. Why is that incredible? Because the Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
I had to go find it just to make sure weren’t had by an Onion site. Second to the last on the right hand column.
The man would be dumb as a brick if that wasn’t insulting to bricks.
Weird. A lot of those are micronations, and almost all of them have comparatively insignificant trade to the US.
What a dumb PR event.
I’m honestly surprised tariffs are imposed on US agricultural goods. Are food safety laws not enough to keep that crap out of most countries?
My friends, we are watching how US will never be the greates again in anything.
