cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/41675354

Among the reciprocal tariff levels Trump announced:

China: 34%

European Union: 20%

South Korea: 25%

India: 26%

Vietnam: 46%

Taiwan: 32%

Japan: 24%

Thailand: 36%

Switzerland: 31%

Indonesia: 32%

Malaysia: 24%

Cambodia: 49%

United Kingdom: 10%

Rest of the world: 10%

  • Phoenixz
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    Man this dude really hates America.

    I’ve never seen anyone causing that country so much harm in so little time. It’s that he and his cronies are incompetent as fuck or they would have done it even faster.

  • @Lucky_777@lemmy.world
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    Idiot fuck will make everything more expensive. This isn’t short term pain like they will bullshit you, it’s going to be this way for 3.5 years.

    • OfCourseNot
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      Lol 3.5 years! The damage done in just these three months would take decades to fix. I think it’s very likely that America will never recover from four years of Trump.

      • Coelacanth
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        If the American Experiment produces a President Trump, can we now conclusively say that it was a failure?

      • Monkey With A Shell
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        53 months ago

        Not even 3, barely into April…

        If anyone isn’t a neurotic wreck after a couple years of this they where probably not fit for polite society to begin with.

    • @k0e3@lemmy.ca
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      You make it sound like it’ll be over in 3.5 years. This damage is deep and won’t suddenly go away when Trump is gone (IF he’s gone).

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    Ok so…

    SHEIN and TEMU are done, as in, just over, for Americans, and possibly just in general.

    Their business models basically no longer work.

    Almost 50% on Vietnam and Cambodia?

    Ok, thats at least an instant 50% price hike on… most clothes Americans buy?

    Fucking…computer hardware?

    Jesus Christ, throw another 30% on already bonkers GPU prices.

    Cars? Beyond fucked.

    Components very often get shipped to one country, partially assembled, cross the border, get assembled more, do that again a few times before final assembly… oh right, and they all are massively computerized now.

    Yeeep. Great Depression 2.0 here we come, certainly for America, and probably to a lesser extent for the rest of the world as the US can no longer consume imports… and we will almost certainly have a massive financial collapse, which will almost certainly to at least some extent fuck over finances everywhere else.

    Every less developed country that just has its currency pegged to the USD is now fucked and will be in chaos as they figure out how to respond to this.

  • @courageousstep@lemm.ee
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    433 months ago

    I wonder if the alienation of the rest of the world from the US by Trump, especially with these tariffs, was a Putin idea. Make Russia’s enemies turn against one another so they won’t band together. Pull their economies apart so that the EU won’t have armies and defense mechanisms at hand, and so that the US, Mexico, and Canada are no longer trusting each other, and so on. If all the countries don’t trust one another, they are fractured and weak, unable to stand up to Russia’s invasions.

    • teft
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      Divide et impera has been a thing for a long long time.

    • @GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world
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      If Americans had a concept of the world beyond their borders they’d realise that.

      Although, even if they did look at a world map once. they would still fall for the whole “American Imperialism propaganda” that gets parroted here on Lemmy.

  • @Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1920’s 2: electric boogaloo. Good luck everyone. Wish it didn’t have to be this way. Do what you can to prepare your families and your communities, because this is going to hurt.

    If we get the chance in the 1930s, let’s make sure we pull an FDR and not a Hitler, please?

  • thedruid
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    Well. This will be interesting. It will suck even more but still, interesting.

  • 467265654C75696769
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    This American moron and his band of court jesters placed tariffs on Heard Island and McDonald Islands, it has a population of 0.

  • @wirebeads@lemmy.ca
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    83 months ago

    I sold my DJT put way too soon. The entire market is tanking thanks to the world’s best business man.

  • @Diddlydee@feddit.uk
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    63 months ago

    The Fantascist is a complete buffoon. Remember when the world used to laugh at George Bush and the silly shit he said? Bush seems like a genius compared to old shitty pants.

  • @Suavevillain@lemmy.world
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    43 months ago

    Trump cultists are trying to spin his insane actions as good and tough love. There really is no bottom floor Trump can hit, even when it comes to making their lives and everyone else’s collectively worse.