Washington Post -- White House Eased China Tariffs After Warnings Of Harm To "Trump’s People"

[Dr. Phosphorous]

to force your Communist benefactors to the negotiating table ..

Why? Imbecile Trump said that China would eat the tariffs.

Why did he lie to you, gomer?

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

no businesses are going to invest ? lol ! Trump has secured over 10 trillion in private business investments in 100 days ! 10 times what Biden got in 4 yrs !

Sure he has, Kleetus. Keep telling yourself that once the recession starts because of that fucktard's tariffs.

 

[Billy000]

Why? Imbecile Trump said that China would eat the tariffs.

Why did he lie to you, gomer?

It’s pointless even explaining this to inbred Trumptards. They’ll say anything to defend this moron. It’s made all the more pathetic because this orange whiny little bitch they worship does not give a flying fuck about them and never will. He got a second term with the aim to be king til he stokes out on his pile of McDonald’s. They are nothing to him now.

 

[Lesh]

and that is an absolute fact ! I predicted the Dems would claim that Trumps better trade deals are weak .. that's after they spent months claiming no trade deals would be made .. the left is shifting strategies in desperation again ..

Because you knew he’d fail

 

[yidnar]

Why? Imbecile Trump said that China would eat the tariffs.

Why did he lie to you, gomer?

China drastically reduced the tariffs they've had on US goods for decades after Trump raised Tariffs on your comrades .. what has the left done to get better trade deals ?

 

[yidnar]

Sure he has, Kleetus. Keep telling yourself that once the recession starts because of that fucktard's tariffs.

you are getting more and more shrill as the wins for the US keep rolling in ! lol ! its hysterically funny to watch and enjoy your emotional meltdowns !

 

[yidnar]

Because you knew he’d fail

and exactly how did he fail ?

 

[Lesh]

China drastically reduced the tariffs they've had on US goods for decades after Trump raised Tariffs on your comrades .. what has the left done to get better trade deals ?

Decades ? In 2018 they had a 6.5% tariff on us. Now it’s 10.

https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/2019/us-china-trade-war-tariffs-date-chart

This wasn’t tie for tat tariffs stupid. It was about trade imbalances

 

[yidnar]

Decades ? In 2018 they had a 6.5% tariff on us. Now it’s 10.

https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/2019/us-china-trade-war-tariffs-date-chart

This wasn’t tie for tat tariffs stupid. It was about trade imbalances

lol ! China had much higher tariffs on our goods than 10% moron .. and that doesn't even include their barring of many . many , American products being sold in there country !

 

[Lesh]

lol ! China had much higher tariffs on our goods than 10% moron .. and that doesn't even include their barring of many . many , American products being sold in there country !

Link. I provided one to my claims

 

[yidnar]

Link. I provided one to my claims

here's just some of the HUGE tariffs and duties your CCP allies had on US in March 2013 !

HS code 9618000090 of China Tariff tax rates,import duty of HS code 9618000090; Other tailors’ dummies and lay figures(including automatons and other animated displays used for shop window dressing)

Transcustoms.com provide China 9618000090 Tariff tax rates import duty lookup,HS code search,GB standards,CIQ inspection Quarantine standards query service

www.transcustoms.com

 

[yidnar]

here's just some of the HUGE tariffs and duties your CCP allies had on US in March 2013 !

HS code 9618000090 of China Tariff tax rates,import duty of HS code 9618000090; Other tailors’ dummies and lay figures(including automatons and other animated displays used for shop window dressing)

Transcustoms.com provide China 9618000090 Tariff tax rates import duty lookup,HS code search,GB standards,CIQ inspection Quarantine standards query service

www.transcustoms.com

Link. I provided one to my claims

lol ! the Chicoms had a vat tax of 17 % on all countries in 2013 before additional tariffs ! learn to understand what you are talking about commie ..

https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmg/pdf/2012/09/China-VAT-reforms-multinational-201209.pdf

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

China drastically reduced the tariffs they've had on US goods for decades after Trump raised Tariffs on your comrades .. what has the left done to get better trade deals ?

More lies. Trump got exactly jack and shit from this "deal" with China.

But you are too much of a MAGA lying sack of shit to ever admit that.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

you are getting more and more shrill as the wins for the US keep rolling in ! lol ! its hysterically funny to watch and enjoy your emotional meltdowns !

Trump hasn't "won" anything, gomer. And he's not going to, no matter how much you swing from his dick.

 

[yidnar]

Trump hasn't "won" anything, gomer. And he's not going to, no matter how much you swing from his dick.

lol ! the fact that you are so triggered and upset like most of your fellow commie, gender confused, limp wristed, weaklings on the left gives me hope for the future of AMERICA !

 

[Unkotare]

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This wasn’t tie [sic] for tat tariffs stupid. It was about trade imbalances

"tie" for tat?

 

[JimH52]

Trump backed down against China because a lot of MAGA supporters started complaining about the tariffs....and got nothing in return from China.

Trump blinked...because even his most loyal supporters are telling the mentally ill imbecile that his tariffs are fucking insane.

As the excerpt from the article below mentions, the average U.S. tariff rate has risen from 2.5% to 18% under Trump...even after easing the tariffs against China last weekend.

This is the highest tariff rate since the Smoot-Hawley tariffs of the 1930s, which made the Great Depression even worse.

From the Washington Post --

Throughout April, President Donald Trump’s sky-high tariffs on imports from China had rippled through the U.S. and global economies. But the president was reluctant to move too quickly to lower the penalties on Beijing, believing that the United States needed to stomach some short-term economic pain to achieve a major rebalancing in trade and that China had more to lose in the standoff.

By the end of the month, though, a growing number of blue-collar workers whom Trump saw as part of his political base — including longshoremen and truckers — began warning that tariffs and a near-total cessation of trade with China were hurting them. Behind the scenes, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other aides told Trump that his own voters were in danger if the tariffs did not come down, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private discussions. That gave them a path to initiating negotiations with the Chinese, which culminated this past weekend in Geneva with a partial deal to reduce tariffs between the world’s two biggest economies. One White House official cautioned, however, that multiple factors contributed to the trade talks in Switzerland.

Trump has substantially changed tariffs on goods from China, Canada and Mexico at least a half-dozen times each. He has reversed himself at least three times on auto tariffs, on steel and aluminum, and on agriculture and energy. Other sectors are left waiting to see how their production lines might be upended. Trump has announced, but not implemented, tariffs on semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and a range of other critical imports.

Previously, the most rapid period of change for U.S. trade policy was from 1806 to 1812, as early American presidents contended with shifting alliances with Britain and France, according to Douglas Irwin, an economist at Dartmouth College who specializes in economic history. But, Irwin said, “that was changing every year. This is changing every day. The sheer amount of activity is unprecedented, overwhelming.”

Even after easing economic hostilities with China, Trump has raised the average U.S. tariff rate from 2.5 percent to 18 percent — the highest level since the Smoot-Hawley tariff rate of the 1930s that most economists think exacerbated the Great Depression, according to the Budget Lab at Yale University. Trump has long maintained that these higher tariffs will provide an incentive for companies to bring operations onshore and will help pay for the GOP tax bill.

But some critics say these policies are unlikely to achieve that result. A high tariff rate could in theory provide an incentive for manufacturers to move production to the U.S., but the administration’s constant reversals of policy gives businesses little confidence that they won’t be undercut later. That undermines the goal of encouraging companies to invest heavily in new U.S. facilities.

“It’s been completely insane,” Michael Strain, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a center-right think tank, said of Trump’s tariff policies. “When I step back from the euphoria over easing tariffs with China, what I see is the tariff rate is five times as high as when Trump took office. And we seem to have gotten nothing out of it at all.”

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, a center-right think tank, pointed out that the only formal pact so far is more of an outline for a future agreement than a traditional trade deal. It’s hard to imagine that Britain needed to be threatened with major tariffs for its leaders to agree to relatively minor concessions, Holtz-Eakin said.

“All we’ve done is impose tariffs and then un-impose them — we haven’t accomplished anything, honestly,” Holtz-Eakin said. “We’re going to sell some more Boeings to the U.K. That’s the only thing. Did we really need the tariffs on the world to get that done?”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/14/trump-tariffs-china-trade/

What does he think his "big beautiful bill" is gonna do to his sacred red states that are the Big Medicaid Users?

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

What does he think his "big beautiful bill" is gonna do to his sacred red states that are the Big Medicaid Users?

When a bunch of poor Trump voters in red states start losing their Medicaid benefits, it will be a nasty wake-up call for them.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Well....uneducated dirt stupid MAGA fucktards don't read it, obviously.

No one takes the WaPost seriously, its Bezsos Vanity project to keep his wife occupied

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

No one takes the WaPost seriously, its Bezsos Vanity project to keep his wife occupied

I take it seriously.

Uneducated MAGA bumpkins like you? Definitely not.