Tariffs....they should be glad to pay them...

[Mac-7]

Tariffs to protect weak domestic companies are a bad idea. Tariffs to adjust for unfair trade practices and to encourage domestic growth are a good idea.

where libs are concerned that will just remain our little secret

Because they aint never gonna know

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Never mind the cheap labor.... How about the FDA? The EPA? OSHA? ... They all add cost to the end product.

Replace This Educational Fraud with Highly Paid Professional Training

The cheapest labor of all is from making college students pay for their own education. The corporations freeload off that sacrifice. But all it means is buying a job, which logically can't develop the best talent for the job.

Americans will continue to miss the point, only believing what the ruling parasites mandate. The plutocratic parasites will take us down unless we silence them. Anything told to us from above should drift away in the clouds up there.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

GOOD!!! Thst will promote the Bationslust and Isolationist policies we never should have abandoned by getting involved in World War I.

The Lazy Fairies of Laissez-Faire

Inferior traders couldn't develop trade outside of blockaded Europe. Fools continued to think that our exporters were the best people for those positions.

 

[dudmuck]

That is a given. The idea, from the US side, is to level the playing field by discouraging the purchase of those leveraged foreign goods and promote the purchase of domestic products that have been disadvantaged by the unfair trade practices of the foreign governments. No doubt tariffs increase the prices of imported goods, that is what they are intended to do.

 

[Concerned American]

Lame and uninformed. What we've come to expect from you dud.

 

[Captain Caveman]

When red tape

Importers pay the tariffs and then pass the increased cost onto US consumers in the form of higher prices. AND, nobody seems to notice that the foreign countries affected by our tariffs will retaliate with their own protectionist actions against our stuff coming into their country. So, less imports coming in and less exports going out, that does not sound like a win to me.

Is that what happened 2016 - 2020? Which specific goods are you referring to?

 

[Care4all]

When red tape

Is that what happened 2016 - 2020? Which specific goods are you referring to?

Maine lobster export business with China was nearly destroyed, with retaliatory tariffs, and unlike the Agriculture industry that also lost business due to trump tariffs, trump did not bail Maine lobster men out, like he did the big agri farmers...

 

[Captain Caveman]

Maine lobster export business with China was nearly destroyed, with retaliatory tariffs, and unlike the Agriculture industry that also lost business due to trump tariffs, trump did not bail Maine lobster men out, like he did the big agri farmers...

Well, I read the full link and nothing about tariffs with lobsters -

The Live Market: Maine’s lobster industry is at a turning point for value — and changes

www.nationalfisherman.com

Farmers? Yeah, many countries subsidize their farmers, just like here in the UK.

 

[Care4all]

Well, I read the full link and nothing about tariffs with lobsters -

The Live Market: Maine’s lobster industry is at a turning point for value — and changes

www.nationalfisherman.com

Farmers? Yeah, many countries subsidize their farmers, just like here in the UK.

How lobsters got caught in the crossfire​

Lobsters were one of the first products to get hit with a tariff from China. Until it went into effect, China was Maine’s second biggest customer, buying nearly $129 million worth of lobster in 2017. But exports plunged 84% during the first 11 months after the tariff was imposed, according to the Maine International Trade Center.

While soybean growers and other farmers who have been hit with duties have received billions of dollars in aid from the Trump administration to help them weather the tariffs, lobster sellers were not included in that package.

Trump maintains that his trade war isn’t dragging down the economy. At a speech at the Economic Club of New York earlier this month, he touted strong job numbers, stock market gains, and GDP growth.

“They haven’t been hurt,” Trump said, when asked about economic headwinds affecting a number of industrial sectors.

“The real cost, would be if we did nothing. The cost of doing nothing was killing us, as a country – our national debt and so many other things,” he added.

While the overall economy is strong, the most recent GDP report indicates that it’s slowing. The manufacturing sector, specifically, has slowed for three months in a row.

Maine was one of the slowest growing states during the second quarter of this year. A decrease in trade was the leading contributor, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said.

Along with China, Trump’s other trade fights have also weighed on the lobster industry. Meanwhile, the European Union and Canada struck a trade deal in 2017 that also put Maine lobstermen at a disadvantage.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/01/politics/tariffs-trump-maine-lobster/index.html

 

[Captain Caveman]

How lobsters got caught in the crossfire​

Lobsters were one of the first products to get hit with a tariff from China. Until it went into effect, China was Maine’s second biggest customer, buying nearly $129 million worth of lobster in 2017. But exports plunged 84% during the first 11 months after the tariff was imposed, according to the Maine International Trade Center.

While soybean growers and other farmers who have been hit with duties have received billions of dollars in aid from the Trump administration to help them weather the tariffs, lobster sellers were not included in that package.

Trump maintains that his trade war isn’t dragging down the economy. At a speech at the Economic Club of New York earlier this month, he touted strong job numbers, stock market gains, and GDP growth.

“They haven’t been hurt,” Trump said, when asked about economic headwinds affecting a number of industrial sectors.

“The real cost, would be if we did nothing. The cost of doing nothing was killing us, as a country – our national debt and so many other things,” he added.

While the overall economy is strong, the most recent GDP report indicates that it’s slowing. The manufacturing sector, specifically, has slowed for three months in a row.

Maine was one of the slowest growing states during the second quarter of this year. A decrease in trade was the leading contributor, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said.

Along with China, Trump’s other trade fights have also weighed on the lobster industry. Meanwhile, the European Union and Canada struck a trade deal in 2017 that also put Maine lobstermen at a disadvantage.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/01/politics/tariffs-trump-maine-lobster/index.html

CNN ??

Edit : You said no help from Trump to the lobster industry -

Mr Trump had threatened higher tariffs on European cars if the EU did not end the lobster duties.

In June, he ordered aid for US lobstermen, whose exports have suffered in part due to deteriorating trade relations.

US wins end of EU lobster tariffs in mini trade deal

Trade officials said the move to roll back some tariffs was part of "improving EU-US relations".

www.bbc.co.uk