The version of the bill that passed the House in January included 145 items that are made domestically, according to a Reuters analysis.
Quietly. There is a reason they did it quietly. Don't let them hide it. If you disagree with this bill, feel free to contact your representative so they can ignore you.
So it sounds like companies like Hamilton Beach can ship manufacturing overseas. Eventually, certain products won't be made domestically anymore. Then, because the product isn't made in the U.S., they can request lower tariffs. What a win. This encourages industries to ship jobs overseas.
Also, there are 145 companies on this list (one specific example is given further in the article) where the products are still made here.
Plus, they are doing this when Trump is trying to be tough and negotiate with China. They are undercutting his negotiations in my opinion because why else do it now? China must be laughing. They wouldn't do anything to benefit the U.S. during negotiations.
Maybe I'm wrong and Trump will support this, but if it was so popular, I think Trump would be touting it and the universal support it got. It's not. If he doesn't support it, it's either he signs it like he did with the Russian sanctions to avoid the veto override or he lets them override his veto. If he's opposed, I hope he just lets them override. He won't look weak. He'll look strong for opposition.
Wouldn’t the house also need to pass it?
Interesting that President Trump hasn’t tweeted about this.
This is a DIRECT challenge to the President’s authority. No surprise that most Republicans went along with choosing China over America. Traitors, all.
The Republican Party just does not get it.
It never will.
In all my 67 years, I have never seen a party join the opposition party as one to go against the interests of the United States.
Trump now has Europe discussing zero teriffs, but evidently these braintrusts don’t want to see that with China.
It boggles the mind to watch McConnell and Ryan damage this nation the way they are.
Another Wall Street sponsored and written bill.
I wonder if the reason that these industries no longer exist in the United States is because the Chinese put them out of business with slave labor and tariffs of their own. Inquiring minds want to know.
If this becomes law, it will guarantee more US factories and jobs moving to China. The same lunacy practiced by our government for several decades.
“unanimously passed”
This sounds like one of those maneuvers where they use some tricky procedure to avoid accountability for their actions.
Notice that it says these products aren't made here any longer because the companies moved their production overseas...to China and other cheap labor havens.
This is the epitome of cowardice and lack of vision by our senate and house.
Why did they move production overseas? Because those companies had huge tariffs on us and we had tiny tariffs or no tariffs on them. It made the company money to produce in China and get charged ZERO tariff and pay a small tariff to get their product back in the US.
We shouldn't be eliminating those tariffs. We should be reversing the process. Place a huge tariff on the product to force those manufacturers to return back home and give jobs here and not over there.
We are funding the Chinese military, Chinese nukes, Chinese missiles, N. Korean and Iranian nukes and missiles. These legislators are cowardly flimflam artists and shouldn't be in leadership positions.
President Trump can and should veto this and we the people must vote out the RINOs, every last one.
I believe Trump is right in this regard: Unilateral reduction of tarrifs is nothing other than “feel good” legislation. A bunch of congress critters get to pat themeselves on the back, telling themselves they are “promoting free trade”. They are not promoting free trade.
One sided actions do not promot free trade, and lowering our tarrif barriers, all by ourselves, does not induce any other nation to unilaterally do the same. Why? Our unulateral action gives them no incentive to lower any of their tarrifs.
Trump finally used the word I have been repoeating in WSJ and here for years, when it comes to what we need in trade - reciprocity. We need nation-by-nation agreements that are reciprocal, of reciprocal benefits to each.
Our stupid congress critters just said “our shores are open, whether yours are or not”.
Trump should veto the bill.
Having the Democrats, the Media, and the RINOs doing this stuff while Trump is navigating these waters is like trying to negotiate a price for a house, and your spouse is in the third seat (while negotiations are going on) saying “Honey...I REALLY want this house. I LIKE this house. Can’t we just buy it?”
The seller is just going to bide their time, because they know you are going to lose because your bargaining power and position is weak with your spouse there.
Chinese Jade merchants would often initially reveal a piece they were selling to a customer and study their pupils as the customer saw the piece for the first time. Dilatation of the pupils of the eye is an involuntary response to seeing something desirable. If they saw your pupils dilate, they knew you liked the piece, and that gave them valuable information when bargaining.
Here, they just read the news accounts and get the same information.
If we have true free trade without subsidies and tariffs no one gets to control the “tit for tat” and therefore no one gets any kickbacks or favors. Plain and simple!!!
Paying off their lobbyist handlers.
Of course the United States Congress is trying to undercut the President. They are completely anti-American and all they care about is their globalist masters. Look how quickly they’re able to pass bills like this with almost no one even mentioning it on t.v. Veto this crap (if they ever reconcile it) and make sure you tweet about this daily. Are these fools working for China?!?! The Democrats hate Trump so much they are now AGAINST taxing the Chinese. Let’s be clear. No one did anything until Trump came along and now suddenly everyone is an expert. They have no clue!
I believe Trump is right in this regard: Unilateral reduction of tarrifs is nothing other than “feel good” legislation. A bunch of congress critters get to pat themeselves on the back, telling themselves they are “promoting free trade”. They are not promoting free trade.
One sided actions do not promot free trade, and lowering our tarrif barriers, all by ourselves, does not induce any other nation to unilaterally do the same. Why? Our unulateral action gives them no incentive to lower any of their tarrifs.
Trump finally used the word I have been repoeating in WSJ and here for years, when it comes to what we need in trade - reciprocity. We need nation-by-nation agreements that are reciprocal, of reciprocal benefits to each.
Our stupid congress critters just said “our shores are open, whether yours are or not”.
Trump should veto the bill.
These stupid traitors don’t want to listen to US. They each have a lobbyist in their pocket. These lying RINO’s had better beware of demoralizing us right before the mid-terms.
Wait a minute. This bill - which would destroy more American jobs - passed both the Senate and House unanimously. Unanimously!
How can it be that not one single person - from Bernie Sanders to Rand Paul - voted against it. This is very, very strange.
Trump should tell Congress:
“You better fully fund and authorize the wall if you think I’m going to sign this.”