Trump inks EU trade deal. His tariff strategy is working as planned.

[kyzr]

On and imported item, the cost if the item in slides everything it costs to deliver the product to the USA.
In your example, you left out the cost the importer has to pay in tariffs for the item and only included the factory cost. And that is simply flat out wrong and not how it is done to determine your selling price that your customers will pay you.
Where does your $15 tariff cost per item go on your books when calculating your gross margin profit?

I'm only showing you examples of where tariffs get paid by importers and/or shared with retailers and the cost to consumers stays the same to keep their market share. If they pass 100% of the tariff on to consumers they will sell fewer products.

Which nets more profit? I don't know, that is for their actuaries to figure out.

 

[Modern Messiah]

Out of purely morbid curiosity, please provide your education, continuing education, training, professional designations and practical experience in economic, macroeconomic, business and market analysis.

Thanks in advance.

You are the one who is providing all of your expertise and analysis.
Why don't you give us your credentials?
Did you graduate with a major in business/logistics from S.U.
Subway University

 

[Mac1958]

You are the one who is providing all of your expertise and analysis.
Why don't you give us your credentials?
Did you graduate with a major in business/logistics from S.U.
Subway University

Yeah, I didn't think so.

Just another ignorant Dunning-Kruger Trumpster.

Dismissed.

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[Modern Messiah]

Yeah, I didn't think so.

Just another ignorant Dunning-Kruger Trumpster.

Dismissed.

<flick>

So you have no education, or experience in business or logistics.
Ok.
That's probably why nowon is taking you seriously.

 

[Crepitus]

In summary, either I don't know what 15+15 equals (even though I didn't say anything like that), or he's trying to put me on the defensive and change the subject after I inserted a little reality into his latest fevered Trump circle jerk. One of the two.

Anyway, I can't quite tell if they're still somehow stunningly ignorant about how tariffs work, or if they're just lying to obediently protect their new Christ. Do you have any guesses there?

My guess is they are lying. I have a hard time believing anyone could be that stupid and still be able to feed themselves.

I could be wrong, of course.

 

[struth]

The EU threatened Trump with 30% tariffs, then caved.

WINNING!

Great time to be an American

 

[georgephillip]

All the bedwetting about rampant inflation and supply chain disruptions were lies.

More Trump winning for America, more losing for the Democrats party.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/27/us/trump-news

Your link uses the word " preliminary."
How preliminary is it?

A closer look at Trump’s EU trade deal

"Trump desperately needed a win this weekend, to take everyone’s minds off the Jeffrey Epstein debacle.

"And the headlines about his trade deal with the EU gave him what he wanted.

"But the one-page 'framework agreement,' negotiated in just an hour, left many details for later, and the details contradicted some of Trump’s boasts."

 

[Mac1958]

My guess is they are lying. I have a hard time believing anyone could be that stupid and still be able to feed themselves.

I could be wrong, of course.

In all seriousness, I'm very much hope that's true. But I fear that many believe the things they say, down to their bones. I had a lot of MAGA clients, and when I looked in their eyes, they really seemed to believe all of it. 75% of what I saw was fear, 25% was rage.

I hope you're right.

 

[candycorn]

All the bedwetting about rampant inflation and supply chain disruptions were lies.

More Trump winning for America, more losing for the Democrats party.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/27/us/trump-news

Yep...another TACO moment.

Any jobs coming back to the US? Nope.

Thanks for playing...check please.

 

[candycorn]

Stupid OX. They can drop prices to compensate. They can make it here. American suppliers can take over the product line. Some things like textiles (clothing) are probably going to cost more from import tax. Just SHUP. Let it play out 3.5 yrs. Help out or get out Benedict Utah.

Well, your blob was voted out in 2020...the tariffs he imposed 3.5 years before didn't reshore jack shit.... Sorry to rub your nose in your own bullshit but you brought up the time frame when we should be seeing results. Hope you like the smell of your own shit....

Here is the point where you mutter some personal insult so lets hear it. It's all you know how to do pussball.

 

[Meathead]

Yep...another TACO moment.

Any jobs coming back to the US? Nope.

Thanks for playing...check please.

You don't need a check, you need a prescription for Ozempic and anti-depressants.

 

[candycorn]

Consumers: Importers often pass these costs onto consumers,

So consumers pay for the tax increase.

Thanks for confirming.

Check please.

 

[candycorn]

The American company importing the E/U widgets pays the 15% tariff levy when the widgets arrive at the port of entry to the USA.

The importer then sells the widgets at a profit to the retailer, so he adds the tariff cost, PLUS profit to the whole sell price of the widget, to get the landed cost of the product price for the US Retailer to buy and then retailer to sell at their profit.

Example...at a 50% mark up...simplified

...........................................TARIFF...................................NO TARIFF
Factory cost of widget........$100.........................................$100
Import tariff cost 15%.........$ 15......................................... N/A
landed widget cost..............$115.........................................$100
50% mark up........................$230.........................................$200
wholesale price...................$230..price sold to retailer......$200

Retailer pays wholesale......$230…......................................$200
50% mark up........................$460..price sold to consumer $400



The consumer will pay $60 more for the initial factory cost of the $100 widget... with the 15% tariffs vs without the tariff.

You left off the part where the stuff made here gets it's price raised by the domestic manufacturer. They do this to take advantage of the tariff. You can see this on cars. American made cars should be thousands of dollars less than imported vehicles. Yet amazingly, they still cost more. Its almost as if Ford, GM, etc... are taking advantage of the market. It all hurts consumers in the end. And not one job is coming back.

 

[struth]

Yep...another TACO moment.

Any jobs coming back to the US? Nope.

Thanks for playing...check please.

Who doesn’t like a good taco??

Anyway yes jobs and surging back where you been?

International Companies Bet Big On America: A New Wave Of US Jobs

CEOs see a U.S. economy ripe for growth.

www.forbes.com

 

[Mac1958]

To claim that Trump's tariff strategy is "working as planned" is so demonstrably untrue that I'll assume it's humor. Or cynicism. Or parody.

I can only hope that no one actually believes that. It's not even close. I hope that no one is that ignorant, that unmoored, that far gone.

 

[struth]

To claim that Trump's tariff strategy is "working as planned" is so demonstrably untrue that I'll assume it's humor. Or cynicism. Or parody.

I can only hope that no one actually believes that. It's not even close. I hope that no one is that ignorant, that unmoored, that far gone.

I agree it’s not working as msdnc had planned and you believed

 

[Meathead]

I agree it’s not working as msdnc had planned and you believed

Their depression is palatable, isn't it?

 

[candycorn]

Who doesn’t like a good taco??

Anyway yes jobs and surging back where you been?

International Companies Bet Big On America: A New Wave Of US Jobs

CEOs see a U.S. economy ripe for growth.

www.forbes.com

From your piece...btw thanks for the ammo:

Time for you to throw another tantrum sonny boy.

 

[Meathead]

From your piece...btw thanks for the ammo:

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Time for you to throw another tantrum sonny boy.

Your argument is the use of modal verbs. FFS, it's not a political platform publication.

Just stupid

 

[candycorn]

Your argument is the use of modal verbs. FFS, it's not a political platform publication.

Just stupid

His "proof" of a resurgence in onshore jobs was nothing but "maybes" and "could bes".

I'm glad you're now signing your posts properly now.

Candycorn.