US hits dozens of countries with new wave of tariffs
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Imposed citing forced labour concerns, the levies replace a temporary global duty brought in after the US Supreme Court struck down tariffs in February.
    • pulsey@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      American goods are not getting more expensive. the tariffs are always on imports, i.e. goods are getting more expensive in the US.

      • Sir_Ious@feddit.orgEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        They’ve got a point though: we should no longer be buying U.S. goods for that would

        • reward this openly hostile behaviour.
        • play into Donnie’s fantasy that tariffs will do anything to the U.S. trade deficit on goods.
        • continue, if not deepen trade and technological dependency on a country that proved to be as fickle and unreliable as its diapered disaster of a president.