tariffs (good or bad)

[Biker]

Honda to Make 90% of US Cars Locally, Relocating Mexico, Canada Plants

Honda is considering switching some car production from Mexico and Canada to the United States, aiming for 90% of cars sold in the country to be made locally in response to new U.S. auto tariffs, the Nikkei newspaper reported Tuesday.

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Japan's second-biggest automaker by sales plans to increase U.S. vehicle production by as much as 30% over two to three years in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to put a 25% levy on imported vehicles, Nikkei said.

Honda declined to comment, saying the information was not announced by the company.

In the weeks leading up to the new U.S. levy, Reuters had already reported that Honda plans to make its next-generation Civic hybrid in the U.S. state of Indiana, instead of Mexico, to avoid potential tariffs.

The U.S. was Honda's biggest market last year, accounting for nearly 40% of global sales. The automaker sold 1.4 million vehicles in the U.S. last year.

[CHEEZY17]

Canada Slaps Tariffs on Flamethrowers, Manatee Meat, Fake Beards, and Live Monkeys in Response to Trump

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tar ... y-tariffs/

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/ ... e-monkeys/

Are you sure that's not Babylon Bee?
Oh, you silly snow Mexicans. You really think that you matter.

[Biker]

[necronomous]

As if any of you economic illiterate fucks would know.

[CHEEZY17]

Remember back in 2019 when even left leaning Politico acknowledged the danger of much of our medicine being produced in China?
I don't like the way Trump has taken a bazooka to these tariff imbalances but it seems clear that the playing field needs to be reset and that we need to start manufacturing things that are critical to our well being.
What if, god forbid, we did have a war with China and they just said "OK, I don't think we'll be sending you any more medications"?

U.S. policymakers worry about China ‘weaponizing’ drug exports
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/2 ... rts-088126

“Medicines can be used as a weapon of war against the United States,” Rosemary Gibson, a senior adviser on health care issues at the bioethics-focused Hastings Center and co-author of “China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine,” told lawmakers last month. “Supplies can be withheld. Medicines can be made with lethal contaminants or sold without any real medicine in them, rendering them ineffective.”

[Animal]

when is it good strategy to try to bluff the person that knows they have the better hand? I'm not understanding how this is expected to work in our favor.

[CHEEZY17]

when is it good strategy to try to bluff the person that knows they have the better hand? I'm not understanding how this is expected to work in our favor.

It all goes back to their messaging being shit.
At first it seemed like the tariffs might replace the income tax while in theory bringing back American jobs.
China *does* need our market whether they admit it or not.
Realistically, I think Trump went all in too quick.

[Animal]

when is it good strategy to try to bluff the person that knows they have the better hand? I'm not understanding how this is expected to work in our favor.

It all goes back to their messaging being shit.
At first it seemed like the tariffs might replace the income tax while in theory bringing back American jobs.
China *does* need our market whether they admit it or not.
Realistically, I think Trump went all in too quick.

when Trump attempted a trade war in his first term, China completely revamped their economy. They never wanted to be caught dependent on US trade again. So they went to work. And now they feel as though they are capable of un-coupling from trade with the US. Are they really? I have no idea. But obviously we are a LONG way from being ready to un-couple from them. So playing hardball seems like a pretty dumb strategy.

This, to me, is like watching a Texas Hold Em tournament, and the flop has 3 aces and an 8. the US has two 10's. And China has an Ace/King. China cannot lose the hand and they absolutely know it for sure. What possible bluff could the US try to pull off and win anything?

And then to hear the US has upped its tarriff's again, is like I'm watching the guy with two 10's pushing more chips into the pot that he can't possibly win.

[kwebber]

You do know that those tariffs Canada had on american dairy products didn't kick in on the first jug of milk, or the first pound of butter, right? Those tariffs kicked in after several tons were dumped by the us into Canada. There was never enough dairy dumped by the us into Canada to start those tariffs. So your "facts" are misleading bullshit.

From notable commie news The CBC: "Trump has claimed Canada is "ripping [the U.S.] off" by putting tariffs of over 200 per cent on dairy products.

But those tariffs only kick in after the U.S. surpasses the quantity it's permitted to sell in Canada tariff-free – a number negotiated by the Trump administration in 2018 as part of CUSMA.

"Unless or until you meet that threshold, you do not pay," Harrison said, noting that the U.S. has never reached the quota, which the U.S. dairy industry acknowledged earlier this month."

The the import quota for chicken, was 39,900,000 kg

That is a list of the over quota tariffs that could have been levied, but never happened because those quotas were never reached. American producers had access to the Canadian market tariff free, to a certain point. The Canadian government didn't want the us to start dumping cheap goods into our country. Clearly the idea of Canada protecting it's farmers and producers offends you? The us should be allowed to dump as many goods into Canada as it wants? If Canadian protectionism offends you, then american protectionism that trump is trying to do right now should offend you too.

[CHEEZY17]

That is a list of the over quota tariffs that could have been levied, but never happened because those quotas were never reached. American producers had access to the Canadian market tariff free, to a certain point. The Canadian government didn't want the us to start dumping cheap goods into our country. Clearly the idea of Canada protecting it's farmers and producers offends you? The us should be allowed to dump as many goods into Canada as it wants? If Canadian protectionism offends you, then american protectionism that trump is trying to do right now should offend you too.

See, and that's the whole point:

Why are other countries allowed to "protect" their vital industries but we get shat on if we try to do the same thing?
Why is it ok that other countries have leveled disproportionate tariffs on our goods but the world is going to fucking end if we do the exact same thing that other countries have done to us for years?

[stonedmegman]

when is it good strategy to try to bluff the person that knows they have the better hand? I'm not understanding how this is expected to work in our favor.

The human cheeto needs to be medicated.

[Antknot]

[Biker]

[Wut]

Tariffs suck, and so do you.