Huge new Trump tariffs to slam Australia

[Mac-7]

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.

I’m with Australia on this one

To my knowledge they are not dumping steel on the US market below cost

 

[bambu.]

I’m with Australia on this one

To my knowledge they are not dumping steel on the US market below cost

The natives are getting restless downunder, as they watch the Aust-US marriage heading for bitter divorce at express pace.

First steel and aluminium, ...now wine, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, agricultural products are reportedly under threat.
Australia is a very small country 27 million people including the elderly, children, the sick, disabled, infirm.
We need income from exports to survive, keep the population fed and have somewhere to live, etc.
Only 13.6 million taxpayers.

Someone needs to do something, and quickly, before the divorce papers are served.

It used to be 'we'...now it's 'us' and 'them'...all because of this 'tariffs' madness of Trump's. [Some of his advisers don't seem to know what they're talking about.]

 

[bambu.]

news dot com dot au today

‘Boot ‘em’: Australia should kick US spies, marines out of the country to send Trump a message

A renegade senator has demanded Anthony Albanese hit America where it hurts in response to ‘disloyal’ Donald Trump’s treatment of Australia.

Shannon Molloy
March 10 2025

Anthony Albanese should boot American intelligence and military personnel out of the country to send a clear message to Donald Trump that “we’re not going to put up with [his] nonsense”.
That was the audacious demand made by Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie during an appearance on Channel 9 breakfast show Today.

The United States is planning to impose hefty tariffs on Australia – alongside other countries – and the president’s treatment of Ukraine shows “there’s no loyalty there”, the crossbencher said.

A hoped 11th exemption for local steel and aluminium producers facing a 25 per cent levy on exports to America looks all but dead in the water, according to reports today.

Pine Gap is a secretive intelligence base in the middle of the desert, jointly run by the US and Australia. Picture: AAP

“We’ve got this thing called Pine Gap,” Senator Lambie told Today host Karl Stefanovic.

“What I’d be doing is telling them we’ll close it down. That means their intelligence gathering for this end of the world, they won’t get anything.

“Pine Gap – they need it like no tomorrow. Just tell ‘em we’re going to switch it off in seven days. Give ‘em a real boot up their backsides. Tell ‘em you’ve got seven days to get your marines off our soil.

“Stop mucking around. Stop mucking around with ‘em.”

 

[Mac-7]

The natives are getting restless downunder, as they watch the Aust-US marriage heading for bitter divorce at express pace.

First steel and aluminium, ...now wine, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, agricultural products are reportedly under threat.
Australia is a very small country 27 million people including the elderly, children, the sick, disabled, infirm.
We need income from exports to survive, keep the population fed and have somewhere to live, etc.
Only 13.6 million taxpayers.

Someone needs to do something, and quickly, before the divorce papers are served.

It used to be 'we'...now it's 'us' and 'them'...all because of this 'tariffs' madness of Trump's. [Some of his advisers don't seem to know what they're talking about.]

I think it will be all right

Dont do anything rash

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Donald is an idiot.

 

[bambu.]

I think it will be all right

Dont do anything rash

Someone needs to explain it all to Trumps advisers, rashly if necessary...that Australia is the 4th largest manufacturer of steel in America, across multiple states, employing thousands of Americans in well paid jobs.

 

[Mac-7]

Someone needs to explain it all to Trumps advisers, rashly if necessary...that Australia is the 4th largest manufacturer of steel in America, across multiple states, employing thousands of Americans in well paid jobs.

Thats a good point

 

[Bootneck]

Idiot, we INVENTED aluminum.

It's always wisest to check your facts before calling someone an idiot!

The discovery of aluminium was announced in 1825 by Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted. The first industrial production of aluminium was initiated by French chemist Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville in 1856. Aluminium became much more available to the public with the Hall–Héroult process developed independently by French engineer Paul Héroult and American engineer Charles Martin Hall in 1886, and the mass production of aluminium led to its extensive use in industry and everyday life.

Aluminium - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[toobfreak]

It's always wisest to check your facts before calling someone an idiot!

Then you should have yourself checked your facts. Until American physicist Charles Hall came along, aluminum was a rather rare and expensive metal. But he co-discovered a process by which aluminum could be made practical and affordable, effectively reducing the cost of making it by a fact of TWO HUNDRED, thus, for all intents and purposes, invented it, because, if aluminum were still 200X more expensive than it is today, no one would be using it.

It's always wisest to check your facts before calling someone an idiot!

Charles Martin Hall - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

In fact, Hall went on to create the company ALCOA I believe, the Aluminum Company of America.

 

[skye]

Trump is right!

‘No time for anti-Trump left-wing globalists’: Trump refusing to take Albanese’s calls​

“This is a direct result of Australia having a left-wing weak Prime Minister in Albanese who has repeatedly voted against American interest at the United Nations and has cozied up to China,” Ms Markson said"

https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/sharri-markson/no-time-for-antitrump-leftwing-globalists-trump-refusing-to-take-albaneses-calls/video/90e998c0c0fc89652e2c962bbf5e00b3

 

[toobfreak]

“This is a direct result of Australia having a left-wing weak Prime Minister in Albanese who has repeatedly voted against American interest at the United Nations and has cozied up to China,”

My, my, how times have changed. It was not all that long ago that I counted Australia as among our BEST allies, right up there with Britain and Israel.

 

[skye]

My, my, how times have changed. It was not all that long ago that I counted Australia as among our BEST allies, right up there with Britain and Israel.

I know, still is.

But the Prime Minister is a prick...a left wing weak prick.

He will be voted out in the next election.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

I know, still is.

But the Prime Minister is a prick...a left wing weak prick.

He will be voted out in the next election.

Probably not.

 

[bambu.]

My, my, how times have changed. It was not all that long ago that I counted Australia as among our BEST allies, right up there with Britain and Israel.

The majority of the People are...but unfortunately the 'climate change/green dreaming leftists' infiltrated both sides of parliament enough to get the Left into govt...just.
But just was enough.
Now Gen Z...you know, straight out of school and university, and brainwashed left. Most don't have to pay the household electricity bills and mortgages...are voting and voting for the Labor 'climate change/renewables now' govt. 'Save the planet'.
The far left/left Labor govt, has demonised coal and closed down most of the coal-fired power stations...before renewables could replace them.

So too millennials.

Electricity prices are astronomical, sending businesses broke.
Sending households broke...some can't even provide enough food for their families....are lining up at food banks in ever increasing numbers.

Trump Washington was never going to grant Australia a tariff exemption, no matter what.
He /they should look past the clowns running the country who abused him, and think of the People/the country as a whole.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Trump can only think of himself.

 

[cnm]

Countries like Australia will go elsewhere, seek other allies.

No, Oz is too scared to abandon the US, it still wants to be its deppity in the Pacific. It will just try to pretend it wasn't stupid to tie itself so closely to a rogue nation.

 

[cnm]

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

Tariffs won't be charged on the steel made in the US. What are you complaining about?

 

[cnm]

Idiot, we INVENTED aluminum.

History of aluminium - Wikipedia​

Discovery of this metal was announced in 1825 by Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted, whose work was extended by German chemist Friedrich Wöhler. Aluminium was difficult to refine and thus uncommon in actual use. Soon after its discovery, the price of aluminium exceeded that of gold.​

 

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Seems the Judeo-Christian Western world is no longer an alliance, but a dog eat dog, every country for itself "battleground", with no country able to rely on another/ others for guaranteed help.

So Australia must be an unreliable ally, according to you. Why then should the US make exceptions for it?

 

[cnm]

My, my, how times have changed. It was not all that long ago that I counted Australia as among our BEST allies, right up there with Britain and Israel.

So much for Canada.