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Effective June 10 the djp will impose a 5% tariff on all goods from Mexico. What happens then?

7/1 it goes to 10%
8/1 it goes to 15%
9/1 it goes to 20%
10/1 it goes to 25% and stays there until the immigration problem is resolved.

The djp sez Mexico has been unfair to us. So he will punish them (once again we the people will be punished at the checkout register) until they shape up and solve the US "immigration" problem. End of story. Period. Exclamation mark!  He has spoke.

So if ya buy avocados from Mexico they're gonna get costlier. Or anything else . For the obscenely rich they just don't care. They will find a way to write it off anyway. For the rest of us? Oh well what the he** who cares?

SIGH. The beat goes on. Your gubment in action via the action figure  djp djt.

Posted - May 31, 2019
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  • 34949
    I am fine with it. 

    Also we should be buying American anyway. CA farmers should be happy. They grow avocados. 
      May 31, 2019 6:39 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    About a month ago the only avocados safe to eat were those grown in MEXICO. There was a serious health problem with the domestic-grown ones and a WARNING was issued to not b uy domestic grown ones. Did you miss that warning m2c?. We ONLY EVER EAT avocados from Mexico. They are uniformly delicious and are grown under the CALAVO brand. Different strokes m2c. Do you EVER disagree with anything the sb  prez does/sez? Just for the halibut? SIGH. Thank you for your reply and Happy Friday to thee! :)
      May 31, 2019 8:18 AM MDT
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  • 34949
    Yes. I have disagreed with President Trump. I have listed what before. Planned Parenthood funding, not securing wall funding when they did the tax cut. Most of it comes down to him trusting establishment Republicans. I think he should do as Obama did with DACA and write an executive order allowing for the immediate deportation of all illegals without a legitimate amnesty claim (better jobs is not valid claim) found within 100 miles of the border. (Now if they are "other than Mexican" they cannot be deported...is that racist?) I also do not like the family separations but know it is our stupid laws that cause it.
      May 31, 2019 8:28 AM MDT
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  • 6023
    What happens?
    Hopefully, one thing that will happen is a more efficient manufacturing process.

    According to NPR, one of the issues with the tariff is that some manufacturing requires the product to go back and forth across the border multiple times.  In other words, part is built in Mexico ... then comes to America for parts ... then back to Mexico for more parts ... then back to America again.  And each time it would pay the tariff increase.

    I don't know what products they were talking about ... but it sounds inefficient, even without considering a tariff.
      May 31, 2019 7:32 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    As I read it the tariffs will be on EVERYTHING. So you are pro this then Walt? Thank you for your reply! :)
      May 31, 2019 8:15 AM MDT
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  • 6023
    I'm not in favor of any tariffs.
    I believe the government has very little business picking winners and losers, in business competition.
    (most of that being to protect against monopolies and corporate espionage)

      May 31, 2019 8:24 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    Another economic mess that will be made by Trump which will cause him to throw millions of dollars at the auto industry to make them whole, all at the expense of the taxpayer.  
      May 31, 2019 9:50 AM MDT
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  • 10766
    What he's going to do is tank the US economy.  Of course, if he gets ousted in 2020 the "tanking" will fall on the next presidents shoulders making them look bad for trump's stupidity.  he's running this country into the ground  just like he did with a lot of his business ventures.
      May 31, 2019 10:39 AM MDT
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  • 3719
    I can't see either nation gaining anything from that. If anyone "wins" such actions, it is the side who loses the less.   
      May 31, 2019 1:29 PM MDT
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  • 3719
    Just had a thought... Are those percentages all on the original prices, or compounded?

    If the latter they will be severe indeed:

      On original costs, per $1000, price + tariff becomes:

    10% = $1100
    15% = $1150
    20% = $1200
    25% = $1250

      If compounded, so each increment is on the already-taxed price, the costs of the original $1000-value goods become

    $1100   at 10%
    1265     at 15% of 1100... etc., so:
    1518
    1897.5

    "Made in Mexico" - as is the physiotherapy cold-compress cuff I have to help me recover from a knee operation. International trade often seems something remote until you think of what's in your home, such as that cuff, my French-made car, or the Turkish dates, Iranian figs and Vietnamese desiccated coconut in my kitchen. Apart from the very serious concerns I share, and by no means only for security, over Huawei and G5 'phones, my own country (GB) trades peacefully even with countries whose regimes are certainly not to our taste. If nothing else producing and trading in goods is far more about ordinary people's lives and livelihoods than politicians' dogmas.  In any case, the US / Mexico problems are for those two countries alone to resolve, not mine or anyone else's.

      June 1, 2019 2:40 AM MDT
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