The public sentiment is predominantly critical towards Trump's tariff policies, perceived as aggressive and detrimental. Many commenters express pride in India's sovereignty, advocating for self-reliance and a strong response against American pressure. There's a strong desire for India to strengthen ties with alternative nations and a collective call for unity against perceived bullying from the U.S.

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I’m guessing that it will take a while before the details are settled and we can really see the “net net” of the changes.  

It’s possible that its “Big”, but also possible it’s a big nothing burger

CaliTexan22

It is so sad that not only Japan but also the EU are bowing to Trump's policies. This shows once again that an aggressive bully can get his way. Other bullies, including those in the Kremlin and on the Bosporus, will learn from this.

JustOneTwoThree4

A federal Appeals Court will begin hearing oral arguments on the constitutionality of all these tariffs on July 31st. There clock is ticking on these tariffs.

PincheVatoWey

This op is ai and chatting in the comments.


Please ban this bs.


Clearly illogical and designed with bias. No intelligence, artificial or otherwise, would argue in favor of this chaos and if favor of a clear liar in charge. 


Continuing dialogue with bad faith actors from the right, real, imagined, or artificial...does not serve us for useful conversation and it does not serve humanity.

ktaktb

Real question, why don't these other countries just do a 'bad job" negotiating and get 50+% tariffs and let the US suffer and have to explain how these are "good trade deals" for the US. It seems like, from a global economy point of view, the US needs to learn a lesson about creating unnecessarily volatile markets. If we don't teach the lesson now, then I fear this kind of insane thing will only happen again.

aeropl3b

He agreed that he will tax Americans an additional 15% on any goods they buy from Europe, while the EU won't tax their own people for buying American products they would have bought, anyway.

NYkrinDC

rump’s tariff gamble has already been deemed to be illegal by a federal court, which ruled in May that the president had overshot his powers under trade laws.

So EU act with a iligal act i my eyes with that deal. Hope all contrys go for refund. EU in a bincan No one nows whats going on at the others side of the door

Mediocre_Tax969

What exactly are the magans celebrating? The opportunity to pay more for every day items? All the while the Uber rich get a massive tax cut? You really can’t make this stuff up. Republicans are now cheering the largest tax increase on everyday consumers in history of the country. All because their cult leader tells them to.

samf9999

As someone who lives in Europe, I've got an honest question. What do we need from the United States of America? 

No I'm genuinely being honest. We have better cars, we have better food, maybe raw materials but honestly we can probably get them from China cheaper. 

So I'm all actuality, what does the United States make that we need?

StillAnAss

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r/Economics is in an all time tantrum right now seeing Trump absolutely victorious with these trade deals. Massive win for US energy. Billions on billions into the US economy with literally nothing sacrificed cause no lethal tariffs went into effect. 

The Art of The Deal.

Careless_Sandwich_88

Worse than permanently damaging the partnerships and alliances that took over a hundred years to forge, and made America the biggest superpower in the world? Worse than completely altering the US economy and life harder for all Americans except the billionaires? Damn. 

BannedByRWNJs

This is just stupid, Trump wants high tariffs and he needs the trade partners and USA consumers to be content with it. He is hoping tariffs will bring in enough money to line his/billionaires pockets. Then also cutting 1 Trillion from SNAP/Medicaid/Medicare and giving a 4.5 trillion in tax breaks. So they need 3.5 trillion and they are not getting that with tariffs.

a_little_hazel_nuts

Tried to order some equipment off of gornation.com today and the duties were nearly the price of the equipment, decided I didn’t need it that bad

Winthefuturenow

"Trump's EPA to repeal finding that climate pollution endangers human health"

This just reported here in Australia. A long time friend, Allie and with a long time Free Trade policy. Not that that seems to mean anything now.

And now repealing evidence based science. .,...... Yeah Trust is gone.

Xevram

People still seem to think that Trump is doing this because he thinks he’s helping us but is wrong.  That is not the case.  Trump knows that he is harming our economy and that it’s going to cause pain and chaos.  That’s the actual goal.  He is getting his revenge against America; is helping his Russian buddy; and is creating an environment to justify his plans for emergency powers.

Thisam

Until these predictions of economic collapse comes true nothing is going to convince blue collar people who work for a living that tariffs are bad.

Like i've been told all year that by now we would be in economic collapse, and we had stock market issues at the beginning of the year and even that is gone now. 

So i'm wondering at this point even myself if this is just laisse faire capitalist whining.

WizardlyLizardy

Wow thats crazy all the maga hogs on twitter are saying its going great and we're the envy of the world and everyone else is paying these tariffs but also US corporations

kingofshitmntt

ya they did. Some of them are racist tools also. But mainly they don’t want to pay any taxes. So when you all loose your hospitals, it is so billionaires can buy more yachts and private jets. California and The Blue states in the north east fund all your red state welfare. Your welcome….

Elegant_Section8225

 of the voters who voted more voted against him than voted for him. He received less than 50% of the popular vote. so all this bs about a mandate is only for the idiots who voted for this treasonous criminal after he showed us all who he is in the 2016-2020 admin. 

If you still think your trump vote wasn’t a big mistake at this time, you’re beyond redemption. 

It is written! 

You can’t fix STUPID!

Those minorities who vote republican just don’t understand that they are only wanted for their votes. Republicans don’t give a fuck about minorities. I’m Mexican-American born and raised in California.

TopicNo7277

Ah yes. The US Government and corporations have been in bed together shipping every middle class, manufacturing job overseas for the last 30 years to increase corporate profits while every other nation taxes the hell out of everything made in America. But the second someone comes in and tries to undo this, tHe EcOnOmY wIlL cOlLaPsE aNd EvErYoNe WiLl HaTe YoU!

dirtyoldman654

Mexico doesn’t pay the tariffs, Americans do.

Also none of this is a “deal.” Trump just raised tariffs on Mexican imports in the U.S. using a law that two courts have said he doesn’t have the authority to use for this purpose.

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seemefail

You mean “American businesses and consumers will continue to pay a 25% tariff on cars and 50% on steel, aluminum and copper,” you fat orange fuck.

GoDuke1983

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\#BravoPresidenta

FXgram_

It’s amazing how stupid Trump voters are.  They are against tax increases and they celebrate the extension of his tax cuts - because they save a few measly grand a year (and most of the real savings go to the category of wealthy people they will never be a part of)…but somehow they are okay with tarrifs, which is nothing but a tax increase.

HoomerSimps0n

🐓🌮! There will absolutely be no more extensions. Well except for this one and that one. You know the hard ones.lol

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djevilatw

So a telephone call with a known liar and fraudster is a "deal?"  Hahahahahahahaha.

Phrreemn

Trump you made a trade deal, a real trade deal, one that was signed on paper, with Mexico and Canada in your last term.

And now you’re claiming our current trade deal with Mexico and Canada was ripping off the United States.

You allowed Canada and Mexico to rip us off?

Y0___0Y

If the MAGA's actually realized they're the ones paying the tax it would be a whole different United States. lol

The_Establishmnt

How does the 25% on fentanyl work? Is he trying to make dealers pay more or some other asinine idea? Or is that legit like a price increase at the pharmacy or something.

Sounds like bullshit to me.

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Wait  25% Fentanyl Tariff? I thought he wanted to stop fentanyl? He figures it's coming in so let's tariff the drug dealers therefore the addicts get the hike in price and then they can't afford it, so they get clean? And then they become his factory workers? 🤔

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First of all, all this bragging about Trump's tariffs increasing revenue is utterly disingenuous.

Yes, when you tax imports, those taxes collect more money, shocker!

But that's not even the point.

This revenue is a tiny fraction of government income and tariffs aren't primarily meant for the purpose of raising revenue anyways.

They're mainly used for things like addressing trade imbalances, protecting domestic industries, and sometimes they are used as a form of economic sanction.

But the White House is bragging about revenue here because Trump supporters can't see the forest for the trees—so they immediately latch onto the talking point, then proceed to applaud Donald Trump for a job well done without recognizing the deeper implications. All they hear is, "Trump make economy better," and that's all they need to hear.

They don't care about the broader economic implications and consequences of Trump's tariffs, hell, they're probably not even knowledgeable or informed enough to understand these nuances.

Bragging about tariff revenues is like boasting that speeding tickets are a great thing because they raise money.

And now to that end, the narrative becomes "Trump is making America great again!"

But Trump's trade and tariff policies are reckless, impulsive, touch-and-go, highly irregular and sometimes even outright vindictive.

Meaning the White House can't feasibly brag about things like correcting trade imbalances or protecting America's industries because Trump's trade policies aren't all that strategic or well thought out to begin with.

Trump and his supporters are also bragging about recent GDP figures without even bothering to take a closer look.

This supposed "growth" was artificially inflated by Trump's tariff/trade policies.

Consumer spending and investments are at multi-year lows, and inventories are far in the red. We haven't seen these types of contractions, slowdowns and inventory drawdowns since early on in the pandemic.

In reality, we're seeing consumers who are cautious of higher prices, the likelihood of slowing productivity and future growth and businesses expecting lower demand.

So even though we saw positive second quarter growth, the underlying factors showed weakness. This means a risk of stagnation, or even recession. And if there is no "official" recession, it could still mean slower growth and higher unemployment.

There are also issues of labor shortages, especially in crucial sectors where migrant labor is essential. Retail and hospitality could also face layoffs or slower hiring.

And if this continues, it can obviously lead to stock market volatility.

There's a reason the president and his supporters don't dictate monetary policy.

That said, the broader issues here have more to do with the excessive and haphazard nature of Trump's tariffs and the economic consequences of across the board, historically very high tariff rates.

Trump's trade policies also put strain on our economic and diplomatic relationships with US trade partners, allies and foreign competitors alike.

There are also deeper concerns about how these tariffs will raise consumer prices—negating any meager revenue increase—while this government revenue is coming straight out of the pockets of Americans. Which is precisely why Kamala Harris referred to Trump's policies as a "national sales tax" during their debate.

It is well documented that tariffs—especially tariffs of this scale and figure—contribute to inflation and pass costs down to the consumer. It's practically the only conservative economic policy that actually "trickles down."

When the Trump administration brags about revenue as a benefit of its tariff policies, it's ignoring the broader economic costs.

The government is neglecting the fact that these types of tariffs can and *will* lead to consequences like inflationary pressures, retaliation and trade wars that hurt everyone, higher input costs and the harm that they will do to exporters, world wide trade instability and increased global tensions—especially if previous trade agreements are sabotaged.

Trump's tariffs can also disrupt the global supply chain and make domestic industries *less* efficient. While broad tariffs like these can actually *reduce* imports, which will cause revenue to *decrease.*

Combine these likely outcomes with the impacts of this Administration's other policies and the consequences of Trump's signature "big beautiful bill," and you get a recipe for even worse economic inequality. All roads lead to a redistribution of wealth.

Just like every other policy of this administration, Trump's tariffs are strategically questionable, costly, ill-conceived and politically motivated. Republicans want to push the narrative early on that Trump is succeeding, but any temporary gains in revenue are far outweighed by the economic damage that Trump's tariffs will do to this country.

Choice-of-SteinsGate

Congratulations USA we are paying more for our goods!

KamKorn

He's the scary part: companies stocked up when all this lunacy started. That, in effect, pushes back any hurt that's coming. All the "but the economy is doing just fine"  (or even better than that) reporting is just simply seeing the light but not the train that's behind that.

barneyrubbble

And why should trade be balanced in the first place?  The US has a lot more people than many other countries, it's totally fine and normal that the US would need to buy more from other countries than those other countries need to buy from them.  It's not 'unfair' - the US receives goods and resources they want/need in exchange for what they pay, it's not some sort of charitable donation.

MJcorrieviewer

&gt;President Donald Trump is standing by his August 1 deadline for other countries to reach new trade agreements with the United States or face steep new tariffs on their exports. The administration has announced a slew of deals, including with the U.K., Japan and the European Union, even as Trump has issued new tariff threats against India, Brazil and others.

&gt;“You’ve got total, random chaos,” says policy expert Lori Wallach, director of the Rethink Trade program at the American Economic Liberties Project and host of the podcast Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach. “What the Trump administration is doing, basically, is an abuse of the tariff tool … to threaten countries based on foreign policy whims.”

I don't know how some people still think they actually are?

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And her shorts are here (via YouTube): [https://www.youtube.com/@RethinkTrade](https://www.youtube.com/@RethinkTrade)

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