Huge new Trump tariffs to slam Australia

[bambu.]

Daily Telegraph Sydney today [pay wall]

Article by Samuel Clench;

In deeply unwelcome news for Australia, Donald Trump has announced that he’ll impose 25 per cent tariffs on all of the United States’ steel and aluminium imports.
Australia exports hundreds of millions of dollars worth of each metal to the US every year. During Mr Trump’s first stint as president, we were among several trade partners he exempted from comparable tariffs (the one on aluminium was only set at 10 per cent back then).
Speaking about these new tariffs during a gaggle with reporters on Air Force One, en route to the Super Bowl, Mr Trump indicated there would be no exemptions this time.

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Charming!
Thanks for nothing, Mr President.

This 25% tariff is very disappointing.

What happened to the, para; "Australia is a great ally. We can't do this [secure America and the Western world] alone, etc"...as the AUKUS deal was sealed in Washington and Australia handed over yesterday its first payment of $500m...plus a gift of $3billion to basically improve US manufacturing capability so as to build the nuke subs.

There's much outrage downunder today.
Trump's shining star suddenly got a lot dimmer in the eyes of many in Australia.

US already has a $28 billion trade surplus with Australia.
How much more does Mr President want?

Anything Australia imports from America it can get elsewhere...from China for example...Europe/Britain, Japan, Korea/Asia.

Cars, trucks, farm machinery, fruit ...there's a very long list.

There are many in Australia who'd be only too happy to embrace China, Australia's largest trading partner, further.

 

[JGalt]

Daily Telegraph Sydney today [pay wall]

Article by Samuel Clench;

In deeply unwelcome news for Australia, Donald Trump has announced that he’ll impose 25 per cent tariffs on all of the United States’ steel and aluminium imports.
Australia exports hundreds of millions of dollars worth of each metal to the US every year. During Mr Trump’s first stint as president, we were among several trade partners he exempted from comparable tariffs (the one on aluminium was only set at 10 per cent back then).
Speaking about these new tariffs during a gaggle with reporters on Air Force One, en route to the Super Bowl, Mr Trump indicated there would be no exemptions this time.

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Charming!
Thanks for nothing, Mr President.


What happened to the, para; "Australia is a great ally. We can't do this [secure America and the Western world] alone, etc"...as The AUKUS deal was sealed in Washington and Australia handed over yesterday its first payment of $500m...plus a gift of $3billion to basically improve US manufacturing capability so as to build the nuke subs.

There's much outrage downunder today.
Trump's shining star suddenly got a lot dimmer in the eyes of many in Australia.

Australia will eventually kiss the ring and buckle under. Maybe even take a couple hundred thousand of our illegals off our hands.

Australia was a prison nation at one time, Trump's just Making Australia Prison Again.

 

[Thunk]

What has Australia done for us lately?

Ya know the whole crocodile dundee thing has worn off.

 

[JGalt]

What has Australia done for us lately?

Ya know the whole crocodile dundee thing has worn off.

That was fake as hell to start with. You get caught in Australia carrying a knife like he had, and they'd send you to prison.

 

[Thunk]

That was fake as hell to start with. You get caught in Australia carrying a knife like he had, and they'd send you to prison.

Yeah...but it was fun. Especially when the black dude in the subway was yelling for nick to the lady & he yells out "BECAUSE I LOVE YOU"

 

[bambu.]

That was fake as hell to start with. You get caught in Australia carrying a knife like he had, and they'd send you to prison.

Not back then.
Back then, 40 years ago, you could carry a knife like that legally.
Then, after one too many stabbing murders, new knife laws were introduced.
Now, carrying knives/blades of any type is a crime.
Back then semi auto rifles were also legal to possess.
Then, after too many massacres, semi auto weapons were banned, govt had a buyback...and an amnesty period.
Bolt action rifles and single shot shotguns only allowed.
All guns mostly in rural areas, on farms.
Must have shooter's licence, all guns registered, with the guns locked in special safes, ammo secured separately.
Govt does inspections.

 

[bambu.]

Australia will eventually kiss the ring and buckle under. Maybe even take a couple hundred thousand of our illegals off our hands.

Australia was a prison nation at one time, Trump's just Making Australia Prison Again.

lol
A prison nation, ruled by the British...exactly like America was.
Britain was sending its prison ships and convicts to America, 50,000+ convicts.
After the war, when it no longer ruled there...it started sending its convicts to Australia.
First Fleet, convicts and free settlers, arrived in Sydney harbour 1788. The Union Jack raised 26 Jan 1788 and the Great South Land claimed for Britain.

Australia will have to pay the tarrif, no choice.
That nice Mr Biden wasn't charging a tarrif.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Why does MAGA want massive inflation?

 

[bambu.]

Why does MAGA want massive inflation?

And why does MAGA not want to honour the Free Trade Agreement it has had with Australia since 2005?
A great agreement it is, er...was. Killed by this tariff announced yesterday.
Everything was going along nicely. Free trade between the two allied nations.
"You buy some of my stuff, and I'll buy some of your stuff." $28 billion surplus in favour of USA.
Hardly Australia "ripping off" America...in the words of Mr President.

 

[JLW]

The moron Trump is going to get us in a worldwide trade war. Last time that happened we had the Great Depression.

 

[ozro]

Well there goes the Australian vote.

 

[frigidweirdo]

What has Australia done for us lately?

Ya know the whole crocodile dundee thing has worn off.

Aside from being a very, very important partner for the US in the Pacific?

This is the problem. Trump only sees money. He doesn't understand global politics and doesn't care. And the US will suffer because of that. Countries like Australia will go elsewhere, seek other allies.

 

[Thunk]

Trump only sees money. He doesn't understand global politics and doesn't care.

You only see leftists talking points.

You don't seem to understand that every country (INCLUDING the USA) NEEDS to have it's own steel and aluminum industries!

If a war begins we will NEED steel to build tanks and ships...we will NEED aluminum to build air planes, helicopters and missiles.

Our lives depend on it...our very existence depends on it!

What if we get into a war and our steel or aluminum is cut off?

 

[bambu.]

The moron Trump is going to get us in a worldwide trade war. Last time that happened we had the Great Depression.

I think he hasn't really thought deeply about it, the tariffs and their possible repercussions for America.
He had so many executive orders to sign, maybe he didn't have time to study them all in depth.
Fair enough, he's for "America first", "the golden age of America"....as he should be, he's the President of America.

He spoke with the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, not long ago today;

from The Daily Telegraph Sydney [paywall] [dailytelegraph dot com dot au] just now online;

“It’s a big deal. This is the beginning of making America rich again,” the President told reporters, adding that there would be “no exceptions, no nothing” to the tariffs.

Moments earlier, Anthony Albanese said Mr Trump was considering a request to grant Australia an exemption from proposed tariffs on steel and aluminium imports following what the Prime Minister described as a “warm” phone call between the pair.

Mr Albanese said he would continue to discuss the tariffs exemption with Mr Trump and other US officials in the coming days, describing Australia’s relationship with the US as “in good shape”.

“When you look at the imports of these products into the US, it’s about one per cent of imports of steel, two per cent of aluminium. Our steel is an important input for US manufacturing.

“(Australian steel producer) BlueScope is the US’ fifth-largest steelmaker. They’ve invested $5 billion in the US across a range of states.”

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Steel-maker across a range of US states...employing Americans, reportedly on good wages/salaries.

 

[frigidweirdo]

You only see leftists talking points.

You don't seem to understand that every country (INCLUDING the USA) NEEDS to have it's own steel and aluminum industries!

If a war begins we will NEED steel to build tanks and ships...we will NEED aluminum to build air planes, helicopters and missiles.

Our lives depend on it...our very existence depends on it!

What if we get into a war and our steel or aluminum is cut off?

It's funny, because if war breaks out, the US will need aluminum, but it'll also need ALLIES.

So, it's destroying one to get the other.

Oh, that's fucking smart.

 

[Thunk]

So, it's destroying one to get the other.

If we NEED to buy from them to maintain our friendship...we're NOT friends!

More reason to have our own steel and aluminum foundries!

 

[frigidweirdo]

If we NEED to buy from them to maintain our friendship...we're NOT friends!

More reason to have our own steel and aluminum foundries!

Oh please. The way the US acts, nobody is going to be best buddies. The US acts like an asshole with multiple personality disorder.

The problem is the US has a population of 330 million people.

China has 1.4 billion.

Even with the EU at 450 million, the UK at 65 million, Australia at 27 million, New Zealand at 10 million sheep and three people, Japan at 123 million and South Korea at 52 million plus Canada's 41 million, you still don't have anywhere near as many people as China.

Now, these countries are richer, but the US on its down doesn't have the reach. It needs South Korea and Japan if it wasn't the close to China in the even of Taiwan being invaded. Australia also helps massively with that control of the Pacific.

It needs Europe too. NATO is important for the US, and Trump ignores this. If it went against the US, it'd cause no end of problems, it's GDP is only slightly smaller than the US's GDP.

Even if it came to an economic war, the US isn't going to do well without trade partners.

 

[Thunk]

Even if it came to an economic war, the US isn't going to do well without trade partners.

Go cry to someone else...it's already a done deal and there's nuffinz you can do about it. NANNY NANNY BOO BOO

 

[frigidweirdo]

Go cry to someone else...it's already a done deal and there's nuffinz you can do about it. NANNY NANNY BOO BOO

Fuck me, grow up. Why do you bother coming on a forum like this, surely there are forums where you can go and talk about children's stuff with kids.

 

[dudmuck]

I think he hasn't really thought deeply about it, the tariffs and their possible repercussions for America.
He had so many executive orders to sign, maybe he didn't have time to study them all in depth.
Fair enough, he's for "America first", "the golden age of America"....as he should be, he's the President of America.

He spoke with the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, not long ago today;

from The Daily Telegraph Sydney [paywall] [dailytelegraph dot com dot au] just now online;

“It’s a big deal. This is the beginning of making America rich again,” the President told reporters, adding that there would be “no exceptions, no nothing” to the tariffs.

Moments earlier, Anthony Albanese said Mr Trump was considering a request to grant Australia an exemption from proposed tariffs on steel and aluminium imports following what the Prime Minister described as a “warm” phone call between the pair.

Mr Albanese said he would continue to discuss the tariffs exemption with Mr Trump and other US officials in the coming days, describing Australia’s relationship with the US as “in good shape”.

“When you look at the imports of these products into the US, it’s about one per cent of imports of steel, two per cent of aluminium. Our steel is an important input for US manufacturing.

“(Australian steel producer) BlueScope is the US’ fifth-largest steelmaker. They’ve invested $5 billion in the US across a range of states.”

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Steel-maker across a range of US states...employing Americans, reportedly on good wages/salaries.