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Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from new tariffs

anatta said:
so China does not use malign trade? ROFL.. what did Biden do about it? spent more money.
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China has been cheating at the WTO for 25 years. Did Katherine Tai make any progress?? lol . All Biden ever did was praise Xi
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So trump ****ing up the economy and then backing down days later is better somehow?
 

I do hope you and other Trump/GOP supporters stay (at DP). I certainly do not want to be in an echo chamber.

As to other boards, I would welcome the opportunity to present myself & my perspective in a MAGA environment. But I'm loathe to expand my social media footprint.

DP keeps me more than busy, and I like being able to segregate real life from online-line life.
 
Chomsky said:
I do hope you and other Trump/GOP supporters stay (at DP). I certainly do not want to be in an echo chamber.
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Im not going anywhere..i can't talk points, but i know what gets them for me, and i've reformed my errant ways
Chomsky said:
As to other boards, I would welcome the opportunity to present myself & my perspective in a MAGA environment. But I'm loathe to expand my social media footprint.
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I dont do any social media except FB - keep in touch with family and friends. and the cat pics..lol. The rest of it is a sewer
Chomsky said:
DP keeps me more than busy, and I like being able to segregate real life from online-line life.
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absolutely. recall this is for fun. not of any importance whatsoever
 
lol are you from Missouri?
 
Jetboogieman said:



This absolute retard doesn’t know what he’s doing.
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President Trump exempts smartphones, computers, microchips from new tariffs

The Trump administration late Friday exempted smartphones, computers and other electronic imports from President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs.
www.usatoday.com

...While excluded from the 125% reciprocal tariffs on China, the tech products appear to still be subject to 20% tariffs Trump previously imposed on Beijing in retaliation to the manufacturing of fentanyl in China.

Although semiconductors are exempt from the tariffs, Trump has previously discussed plans to target semiconductors with industry-specific tariffs on imports from all countries. He has yet to impose these tariffs, however. The White House on Saturday said potential tariffs on semiconductors are under review....
 
dobieg said:
So how many of you have pulled your money from the stock market? From the sounds of the doom and gloom here, it would seem like the majority.


This place is comdey gold.
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And your president is a tragedy.

Of errors.
 
Jetboogieman said:
What did he get in return for “pausing” the retaliatory tariffs a few days ago?
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A stock and bond market stabilization. I thought that motivation was pretty self-evident because he needed to stop the bleeding from making him look any worse. Although Trump would say that he got several dozen countries to come to the table to meet the 90 day window of open negotiations. Time will tell if that pans out to be true and/or fruitful.

Regardless, Trump has always wanted to focus primarily on China and has never hidden that fact. He obsessively spoke about China dating back over 10 years now. All of the other countries are secondary to him.
 

You know he actually could achieve that.

If he wasn’t a complete and total
Dipshit.
 
Jetboogieman said:
You know he actually could achieve that.

If he wasn’t a complete and total
Dipshit.
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I have no doubt that many countries voluntarily asked to negotiate. If they hadn't, Trump would still be publicly admonishing them. Instead, he's focused primarily on shit-talking China.

And I haven't made any comments as to his effectiveness or lack thereof--merely, I just stated what I believe his personal goals to be.
 
Ha ha. It will take the U.S. years to reestablish the trust it has lost. If ever. Thanks Republicans.

It usually only happens to poor countries, and it never ends well.​
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Lursa said:
China really does have him by the short ones.

Another blink...China will be happy to render him blind.
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The thing is, if this bond sell off continues, China doesn’t have to do anything, they can just sit back, continue their part of the bleed and watch as it looks like there may be a move away from American assets.

We cannot know the future for sure, but Trump and those around him simply aren’t smart enough to understand the multitude of side effects their actions are causing and they WILL mishandle those.

Gonna be incredible to watch, America is shitting the bed in real time.
 

I considered mentioning that. China really doesnt have to do anything. Esp not directly in appeasement to the US.

They can ignore us. They can and do widen their markets and influence in other countries...undercutting US trade.
 
CLAX1911 said:
I think he does. Apple can get their chips from Taiwan or South Korea.
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What’s this aversion that Trump supporters have to reading?

Did you not read the article?

Are you bothering to track what’s being posted in this thread?

I guess Fox News has not yet informed you of the exemptions yet?
 
Couple this with the pullback from NATO, and the U.S. defense industry is going to be hit very, very hard.
 
Lursa said:
I considered mentioning that. China really doesnt have to do anything. Esp not directly in appeasement to the US.
They can ignore us. They can and do widen their markets and influence in other countries...undercutting US trade.
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Of course Trump the Moron withdrew the U.S. from APEC simply out of spite against Obama.

APEC's purpose was to consolidate Asian nations into a coherent trading block.

China was already working to fill the void. This will help them immensely at our expense.
 
Lursa said:
I considered mentioning that. China really doesnt have to do anything. Esp not directly in appeasement to the US.

They can ignore us. They can and do widen their markets and influence in other countries...undercutting US trade.
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That’s exactly what they’re doing and saying.

They retaliated, 125% and stopped, that’s it, no more retaliation and they will simply ignore more provocation.

Their exposure to US Trade is greatly reduced to where it was 10 years ago, they have prepared for this eventuality and they have far more options to replace US trade than the US has to replace Chinese Trade.

I am not on Chinas side, I don’t trust them and I don’t want my countries, to become too entangled, but Trump is opening up this door wide and I would suggest nations be extremely weary of getting too deep with China.
 
TobyOne said:
Lol...liberals complain about tariffs....and then complain when there's less tariffs. The mind of a TDSer is a funny thing.
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Does this officially mean you will stop twisting yourself into a pretzel for dear leader and stop discussing this subject again?
 
You didn’t live in a van down by the river?

Who says folks who don’t obsess with being rich don’t have their priorities in order? That’s a very skewed outlook on life.
 
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