Posted on 06/13/2018 9:43:29 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Original plan called for $50 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods; retaliation likely Reuters A worker walks among containers at the port in Shanghai, China. The Trump administration, deepening its global trade offensive, is preparing to levy tariffs on tens of billions of dollars of Chinese goods in the coming week, perhaps as early as Friday a move that is likely to spark heavy retaliation from Beijing.
Senior trade officials in the White House, the Commerce and Treasury departments and the U.S. Trade Representatives office met on the issue before President Donald Trump went to a summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations in Canada on Friday and agreed that the U.S. should proceed, said U.S. officials and others briefed on the talks.
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A trade war would be easy to compared to educating you.
This is nice spin. $50 Billion sounds like a lot. But lets say the tariff is 10%. 10% of 50 Billion is $5 Billion. The annual trade deficit with the Chinks is around $400 Billion so that will only make a small dent(1.25%) in the annual deficit.
You are a traitor. Get the hell out of here.
doodledawg is democrat POS propagandist. It think it is a shared account used by many different lefties who have invaded this site.
No fear of that happening from your posts.
Thanks but I think I'll stick around.
"I keep asking the establishment shills why America has some moral obligation to tolerate foreign countries imposing higher tariffs upon us than we impose upon them. Seems facially unfair, right? So, theres got to be a really good reason because how can you support our working people facing a higher obstacle to trade than the foreigners do? Im just wondering whats wrong with a level playing field. Fair is fair, right? But I never get a good answer."
No, just me alone.
So much stupidity in just one person. Amazing.
Surprised me, too. Yet here you are.
Samantha Bee? Is that you?
Where are all the liberals supporting this move because of China’s human rights abuses?
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