A side effect of tariffs is making less powerful countries play ball.

  • glimse@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    We have historic evidence that insane tariffs like this hurt the economy and no historic evidence that they help. Care to provide any expert sources saying this won’t be a disaster? Because I sure can’t find any outside of conservative think tank mouthpieces

    If anyone in this discussion doesn’t understand tariffs, it’s Trump who thinks other countries will pay for it. Those 2018 tariffs TOTALLY didn’t result in companies using Thailand as a middleman to avoid paying and then passing on those extra costs to us! US companies were DEFINITELY not buying 99% complete products from Hina and “finishing” them here! That’s why we’re all using affordable solar panels now