Doubling down on his trade wars, Trump is threatening to raise taxes on many goods from Canada, hike his universal tariff on imports from around the world and punish Brazil for prosecuting his friend, the country’s former president.
On Saturday, Trump announced more tariffs still, this time on two of the United States’ biggest trade partners: the European Union and Mexico, at 30% each.
Former U.S. trade negotiator Wendy Cutler said that Trump’s recent moves “underscore the growing unpredictability, incoherence and assertiveness’’ of his trade policies. “It’s hard for trading partners to know where they stand with Trump on any given day and what more may be coming their way when least expected,’’ said Cutler, now vice president at the Asia Society Policy Institute.
Policies? What policies? What negotiation? It’s haphazard short attention span theater that American taxpayers ultimately pay for.
It’s because he’s an imbecile pedophile with dementia. Let me break it down for you he wants a bribe or a child to rape.
dementia donvict.
its trrying to distract the media from THE EPSTEIN files.
It’s impossible to negotiate with these guys, because they have no clear demands. They just want what “looks” like as much as they can get away with…
Seems to me that it’s time for other nations to make the best of the prisoner’s dilemma and drop tariffs with each other while sanctioning the US. After all, the US at this point has broken almost all its treaties and trade agreements. There’s no reason for the rest of the world to honour what no longer exists.
There are trade negotiations actively running between US an EU, and Trump simply ignored it when he rolled the dice for new Harrods.
These countries need to walk away from the table until someone stable can take over negotiations. Why would anyone sign a trade deal with someone, knowing they are never going to honor the conditions they just agreed to? By next week, Trump will have completely forgotten that he signed anything…so why bother?
I’m about to write something that I, with no international politics nor trade education but plenty of opinions shaped by social media, thinks world leaders should take note of.
As a Canadian I think we shouldn’t even be entertaining the thought of trade with the regime (yes I know how difficult that would be and realistically it’s not immediately possible. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be working toward it) Unfortunately we have a conservative banker in liberal colors as PM and that’s never going to happen.
Edit: and the same type of brain rot citizenry raised on American exceptionalism who will argue that our PM has our best interests in mind. That they believe he’s smarter than the average bear and we couldn’t ever comprehend his tactics because we are just dumb pleebs.
Stop negotiating and play hardball. Thank you, where’s my 6 digit salary?
Trump consistently plays the game “heads I win, tails you lose”
So, no shit Sherlock…
If the current trade agreements with Canada, Mexico and Japan are so terrible then whoever it was that signed them is probably unfit to try negotiating new ones. Oh wait, that was also Donald Trump.
…when was the last time you negotiated with a shitgibbbon…
They should just cut off trade entirely.
