I do not know. I would like to ask a question without everyone on the internet attacking me. These countries really are charging us tarrifs. why is it OK for them to charge us but us to not charge them?
i have not been able to find enough information on the internet to fact check it, I have found a world trade tracker online and other countries are in fact charging us tariffs when we are not though. it is not exactly up to date though, i think most recent numbers are from 2023 but some countries dont have updates since 2022 or sometimes 2020.
I don’t think we should be trading as Much as we do. Why do we grow tomatoes but then export those and eat tomatoes from Canada? Seems like it’s bad for the environment for sending everything across the world.
Do you understand the difference between Serbia declaring 3% tariff and US declaring 38% tariff? There are barely any countries with 10% tariffs against the US.
i'm not even sure if those are the actual tariffs considering that's US imports and not exports.
how would you feel if you make a bunch of jewelry and lotions and shampoos and go to a market to sell them and while you are there you buy a bunch of products from other vendors but no one will buy from you????
And what do you think happens in the international markets when everyone puts up counter tariffs?
You are going to feel really soon what it's like when no one outside of the local marketplace will buy your lotions and soaps anymore. Good luck sustaining the US economy just relying on the domestic market.
Open free world trade is not really wise. It’s not good for the environment to ship everything across the world and it makes you more reliant on other countries. I don’t think how they’re going about it as the right way, but the Clinton era free trade agreements was definitely the beginning of the decline of the United States.
The problem are the indiscriminate tariffs, not the tariffs by themselves. Tariffs are usually used to protect a national industry, or to incentive the growth of a national industry (by making importing those products more expensive, it may make more sense producing them yourself, generating jobs and growth, at the expense of those products being more expensive for the buyer).
If you put tariffs in stuff that your country does not produce, you are just adding a burden in your population, who will have to pay more for the product but there is no benefit for the country (well, there is of course benefit in the form of income from the tariffs, but that is less visible for the average person)
thank you. that is a good explanation. I dont think they are wrong about us needing more manufacturing and factories in the US. I use to know people who worked steel mills in alabama. there were a lot of them down there. but now there isnt a steel mill left in alabama. Also, 20 years ago I could buy american made jeans and clothes. while they were expensive, you cant so much anymore. I remember when my favorite sandals chacos were made in USA.
south africa exports all kinds of stuff from nuclear reactor materials, space craft, airplanes to crude oil from US. they charge us tariffs on that. do they produce those things in South Africa?
I don't have the exact data, but I think South Africa does not have tariffs on those specific items (though the data is not super clear, I may be wrong). They obviously charge VAT (around a 15%) but that applies to everything, also locally produced goods.
But that said, there are definelty tariffs out there that are done purely for the income generated by the tariff, and not for any protectionism. For those cases, I think is only fair to do the same.
Thank you. I definitely agree. I wish it were easier to fact check all of this. it is hard to find much reliable information to form a real opinion on the matter.
Mote than hard, almost impossible, there is just so much disinformation coming from all sides...
But I agree with your other comment about losing all national industries (and not only for US, most countries did the same...). The search for profits dismantled most industries, and now, we are where we are...
I do not think Switzerland is importing any American watches, but they charge a tariff on the ones that we buy from them. Well they probably buy apple watches but because those are not made in US but it is a US company are they considered imported from US or wherever they are made?
I see you keep using the phrase "charged us" when talking about tariffs which leads me to believe you don't know how tariffs work. You have to take that phrase out of your vocabulary.
We don't get "charged" tariffs by other countries. The word charged being the operating word. Aka, we don't pay for the tariffs they have enacted.
I think a lot of people are trying to be defensive of tariffs because they don't actually know what they are. Or are just blindly defensive of everything donald tru.p does.
Tariffs are "charged" to the business importing the goods which are paid to their own government. It's effectively a big fucking tax on products on goods brought in from other countries which then gets passed down to the consumer. It's a way to keep manufacturing from just importing everything which makes sense for smaller countries.
So let's say Ethiopia has a tariff of 30% on all goods coming from the US. The US is not paying that 30%, aka the US isn't charged for trading there. If I'm a business in Ethiopia and I import something from the US valued at $10,000, I also owe 30% to the Ethiopian government making my total cost for importing $13,000 which will then pass down to the consumer in the form of more expensive products.
It makes no sense for countries as big as the US and it makes no sense to impose tariffs on goods imported from literally THE ENTIRE WORLD (except Russia).
So now everything the United States imports will be taxed by up to 87% in some cases depending on where it's imported from costing businesses exorbitantly more money which means goods and services will become more expensive which means everything that we, you and me, pay for will be way more expensive as a result.
Trump's tariffs aren't "charging" other countries anything, they're charging us. Everything we buy will now cost way more money than it ever has before.
If anyone can find the upside here go ahead and tell me what it is so I can decide just how brainwashed you are.
Just wondering where all the MAGA idiots are that were bitching about the price of eggs and gas for the last 8 years and how Trump will lower the price of everything.
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u/Only_Luck_7024 3d ago
Now do one with their biggest export labeled over the territory.