Re: RE: Re: silca and Tariffs

On 4/26/2025 1:15 PM, cyclintom wrote:

On Sat Apr 26 13:41:16 2025 Catrike Ryder  wrote:

On 26 Apr 2025 09:14:12 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
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Josh of Silca does a good job of explaining how the tariffs are effecting
US companies certainly small ones, as ever it?s a moving target so may well
change.
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Roger Merriman

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Many countries have tariffs on products from the USA. I see no reason
why the USA shouldn't have tariffs on their products. Maybe it will
bring manufacturing back, maybe not. The USA used to be a
manufacturing powerhouse and the bureaucratic jackasses let it slip
away. I don't know if Trump's plans can save the country, but it was
definatly going to hell with the same old, same old plans. At least
he's trying something new.

    According to the Democrats tarriffws are good for other countries but not for Ameriucs. It was perfectly OK for Clinton to apply larger tarrifs to foreign goods than TGrump is doing but perfectly awful for Trump to do titfor tat..
 Time to put these people away.

You do not understand the problem.  Duty disparities are broad, deep, convoluted and often at multiple cross purposes. Oh, and they span every administration since nearly forever.
All that applies in spades to domestic micromanagement in targeted areas in this and every country, what with incentives (bribes) and disincentives (punishment) of a hundred flavors in thousand of iterations.
Small example-
United States of America is written in Japanese as Beikoku:
https://www.pngegg.com/en/png-fnrij
or "rice" + "country", as the reformation of language in the 1860s was contemporaneous with plentiful and inexpensive American rice imports.
That was long, long ago, before nearly all Japanese administrations encouraged (subsidized)  extremely small inefficient farms. Along with the votes of farmers, whose numbers would decrease if farms were combined into larger fields. (this is happening in USA now, a continuance of a long trend, with more food production from less labor, but a side effect is decreased farmer votes. In some counties this has had major political effect.)
https://ap.fftc.org.tw/article/1327
And don't think we're better. Review USA sugar subsidies, price supports and duties which are no better than policies for rice in Japan.
Or the Harley Tax. Or the Chicken Tax.
I have been an importer of tubular bicycle tires across a half dozen entities, including Yellow Jersey, for over 50 years. That's a product we have not made here in USA since before The Great Pacific War.  I pay import duty on each and every tire and the rate hasn't changed, up or down, in a half century.
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