They warned that the tariffs, which were levied in response to Mr. Trump’s concerns about fentanyl smuggling and illegal immigration,
I hate how much I am seeing this stated as fact, without the essential context.
Trump is using the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to enforce tariffs without going through congress, because he knows he doesn’t have the votes for this nonsense.
It’s not about fent and immigrants. He just needs to say that it is so that he can justify these being “emergency” measures. It’s about his weird, unfounded obsession with trade imbalances and his naive assumption that a negative trade balance represents some kind of problem.
Which is probably the point. One should view donvict as a foreign actor just doing things to benefit anyone BUT the United States.
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“Horosho, Trump!”
– Putin
If other countries want to get serious about fighting back they need to announce they’re dropping out of the Berne Convention.
That treaty benefits the US more than anyone else and especially not small countries. The only reason why small countries signed on to it in the first place is because of things like USAID and avoiding tariffs!
If the US is ending USAID and putting tariffs on fucking everything then why TF would these countries continue to protect US copyrights basically forever.
I was surprised as heck that Columbia bent over and didn’t just announce that they’re dropping out and will start hosting the biggest “pirate” website ever where they only honor the first 15 years of copyright.
Well the excitement never ends and this thread is obsolete. Looks like at least some of these tariffs are already on hold. Apparently once someone actually talks to these countries, they can use their words to ask what they actually wanted.
It may be retro-logic after inciting panic throughout the economy and everyone we used to be friends with, but currently they’re claiming tariffs are a “negotiation tactic”,”bargaining from strength’, and not just a bully throwing a tantrum. At the very least they appear ready to drop the tariff idea once something changes, but this really seems like the 10 year olds concept of being strong
