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OctavioJackson
SirEelstuf
The point all we plebes are missing is how this is filling the coffers to overflowing, so that the corrupt officials can pocket the wealth.
starhawk
I work for a customs broker and one of our major clients paid 45 TIMES more duty in the first half of 2025 than they paid in all of 2024.. so ya shit's going to get a lot more expensive lol
jamesdeanshat
The de minimis exception also disappears globally at the end of the month. So now every single imported product no matter the value will increase by 10%-30%. Hold on to your wallets things are about to get pricey.
languex
Hibbtygibitty
Trump will never understand this. He always thinks “I’m winning” regardless of consequences for others. Did tariffs need re-working? Yes. Did he care what that did to the average person?
Bytencoder
That shit is expensive!
BuckinCrazy
Smooth Hawley TARRIFFS MADE THE GREAT DEPRESSION WORSE THE. GREAT. DEPRESSION. WORSE!!!
wowzilla1
He’s going to have so much shit on his grave
arthurvanhoudt
What “strategy”!
ShadeMeadowsArt
"Shockin'"
Bunnies007
Trump was going to slap 50% tariffs on Lesotho, a small country in Southern Africa. Lesotho's main trade is garments - they produce stock for American brands such as Levi's and Wrangler. One firm, Precious Garments, said that the tariffs would put them out of business. Soon after, Trump dropped the tariffs from 50% to 15%. By strange coincidence, Precious Garments make Trump's own-brand golf shirts.
Primotimewaster
Imagine that serendipity. s/
madjo
Meanwhile US senators keep insulting other nations, like Maine's senator Joe Martin, who wrote a letter """"inviting"""", I mean demanding that Canada joined the US, and just erased their entire national identity in favor of the "obviously" superior American ways.
https://wgme.com/news/local/a-maine-politician-sent-canadians-an-unprompted-offer-to-join-the-us-sen-joe-martin-president-donald-trump-british-columbia-alberta-saskatchewan-manitoba
sme2812
Customs were already making ordering overseas ridiculously expensive here in the EU and this does not help
rustythecyborg
On the plus side, it will help with decluttering by not accumulating anything any more
Purrgandy
I had the same thought!
copperdomebodhi
Conservatives complain that liberals won't debate the issues. Conservatives think, "How do tariffs work?" is up for debate.
Seethreepeeoh
Masterful Gambit, sir.
rmichelsen480
I have no economic training and I didn't get elected or paid to know these results but I do have a brain and it told me that if someone has to pay extra to be able to sell something then of course they are going to sell at a price that will cover that extra cost. Why don't MAGAts have brains that tell them logic?
RuffyRuffHausen
I love that eu is a country
cousteau
At least he recognizes that Taiwan is a country.
pm1001
Tariffs are *designed* to make things more expensive. That's the whole point of them
HenchMenInc
To be fair he really didn't say who he was making America great for.
OmNachoMama
It turns up in the most unexpected places. I just got an email from my city water department. Brass is expected to go up 60%, so all of the brass that's used in maintaining all of the citywide water supply is going to cost a lot more to install and fix. My water bill is going up as a result
TheBelcherKids
TheRutabagaUprising
Ugh.... He didn't die yet? Ok, I have family to take care of so let me know when his obituary comes out.
RenaissanceFaireMan
If you make a company pay a tax/tariff to bring goods to the US (import them), of course it's going to raise the price of things. Duh.
GlenL
He's running the USA like a business . . . unfortunately he was such a failure in the business world that he had to pivot to reality TV
ricpaul
He bankrupted how many businesses? To be fair, he'll be responsible for adding probably a third of ALL debt the USA has and responsible for loosing their AAA rating. If a country like the USA could go bankrupt, he'd be well ahead of schedule.
JustDriftingAboutTheInterWebs
rebelft
rulerofthedingdongs
Yeah, all that owning is damn expensive.
Iblamemyparentstoo
It's life changing...lol
GIMike1972
Hey it only cost their lives...which were worthless to begin with so there's that...
jeejeejerrycotton
Lookit all those urinals.
selpathor
And they're gender neutral urinals too! How progressive!
whereismymind86
Be a lot more after rfks antivax bullshit brings gives us the worst winter for Covid since 2020
Domek97
oh god, thanks for that realization
WhatNumberPlease
My wife ordered an item online from Germany. The package was held until she paid the tariff. It doubled the price of the item. Thanks Trump, you asshole.
captainfakeypants
Guess who got all that extra money. Go on, we'll wait... ;)
Absani
As a German, do these tariffs also kick in if I want to send somebody a "gift" of low monetary value? I know when I receive a "gift" from abroad here, I usually have not to pay any tariff no matter the origin of the package (back when imgur SS was still a thing, at least).
ShadeMeadowsArt
I've paid things I've won in contests, so I feel ya
Arbitrarynamehere
It is still baffling to me that Dems were like "hey Trump's signature economic policy is a thinly veiled sales tax expected to increase costs per household by tens of thousands of dollars per year" and people just went and voted for Trump anyway and don't realize what the hell happened
oznobz
Noone knew what tariffs were and you had one guy promising unicorns and rainbows vs the other side trying to bore you with facts and numbers. But if someone's driving vote factor was tariffs in this election, they are probably a horrible human being anyway.
Tengenstein
Permission to be a dickhead vs basic maths. Basic math loses popular interest yo any thing except less basic maths
Arbitrarynamehere
No matter how much more you have to pay grocers, you'll never get to say the n word with impunity like your grandparents. Sorry!
Ah, if only arguments like this reached their ears
stoots24
At least now, our roads won't have any potholes, right? RIIIIIIGHT???
vrockurmouth
Me crying in Michigander…there are more potholes than road
GIMike1972
I'm not gonna downvote you, but central and south Michigan roads are WONDERFUL compared to northern Indiana. You can feel the difference as soon as you cross the border...
vrockurmouth
Not where I live. They love to cold patch
GIMike1972
Yikes - that's terrible! You in Detroit or something?
Seethreepeeoh
But Germany paid it? Right? (Nervous smile] right?
EmanNiemThcin
Well, I'm sure if Uschi von der Leine had anything to say about it we would have done.
knupauger
I'm German and I'm certain I didn't pay for it. I'm glad though that I bought my US made vape before this nonsense started.
jonReremy9669
yes. trust me
d3jake
They paid the same portion of the tarrif in the sale way that mexico paid for a portion of the border wall.
Sticklebrickk
Oh that's good
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S33KER
"the Tobey Maguire Spiderman movies" You mean "THE Spiderman movies", right?
HamSlamwich
"The package was held until she paid the tariff"
Isn't that every package? Most places don't mail you the thing until you've paid all the money for it yeah?
robertfraser
Ummm she PAID the vendor and then had to pay the tariff to United States Customs homie
ICantThinkOfAU
The difference with tariffs is that it will be shipped to you and sold at the price advertised, but then it’ll be held once entering your country until you pay that extra price on top of the one advertised. It’s not only the US that does it’s much more common for US buyers to experience this for the first time now
thedarklord187
In that situation I'd just be returning it
robertfraser
You don't have it to return until you pay the tariff
HamSlamwich
Really? I had no idea.
terreMoonWatcher
Or just keep the package. Especially if it is a product not allowed into the country.. you as the consumer need to know. :(
nickelrocket
Neither do most Americans.
ICantThinkOfAU
Aye, mate of mine is a delivery driver, after the UK left the EU there were tariffs on goods from the EU. He had to deliver a package, weirdly you pay as it’s being delivered to your door in UK, which… I would assume is a scam had I not heard this story, but that’s besides the point. ANYWAY! My boy noticed the name of the company on the label… fleshlight. Tax was almost 100%, so like another £60. Guy very sheepishly told him he wasn’t going to pay the tax on it and that they should send it back
HamSlamwich
Yeah I have never experienced paying a tariff as a separate charge, it's always been included in the price of the item. That's wild.
miserycones
Don't worry things will only be expensive until corporations build new manufacturing infrastructures in the US from scratch for every single product, then prices will go down again. So we just have to put up with runaway inflation for the next 50 years or so
jonReremy9669
and guess which corpo is going to pass on those costs to customers...
and not just "eat them"
JackieTreehornProductions
After which they will see the rest of the global economy making new trade agreements that cut out the former major pillar of the US and as a result entire new supply chains will be established that make products even less expensive even with tariffs and we’ll go through the whole offshoring and layoff and capital equipment dump all over again. The rust belt 2.0 of the 90s and 2000s coming soon to your kids. Idiots. They have economic morons running shit into the ground on purpose to get rich.
DucksAreGood
And mexico will pay for the price of those new infrastructures ! Just like the wall !
nclu
But before corporations can build new manufacturing infrastructure, they'll first have to build the infrastructure to build that infrastructure. As well as build the resource extraction pipeline for the raw materials necessary for that base capital. Until then, each of us is on our own. May the odds be ever in our favor.
nero4ty2
And we’ll finally figure out how to grow bananas in Wisconsin and citrus in New Hampshire, piece of cake, it’ll all be ready for year round harvest next month
PimpinKen
If only there had been a party who said "sending our manufacturing overseas will bite us in the ass in the long run" back when we started shifting American manufacturing overseas
yoyo42
Only if they can get people to work for a small fraction of current wages too.
GiddyKipper
You’ll need to build the manufacturing plants to build the parts to build the plants first, and probably build some infrastructure and power and transport links to do all that… so maybe a bit longer?
kuscheck
First you have to hire engineers to design the plants and train the personnel to run the machines after they are built.
jonReremy9669
" build some infrastructure and power and transport links to do all that"
n0T wITH mINE'S gOD4MN tAX dOLLAR'S! tHAT'S iS cOMMUNISM'S!
JackDance
Its even worse... you ll have to start with digging up the resources, cant import them either.
zimirken
We already have a good bit of industrial manufacturing here.
GiddyKipper
Enough to take manufacturing back from China …? America is the largest goods importer in the world, and the majority of what is imported comes from China. You would need triple your current production capacity *just* to not import from China - that’s decades away (or equally, just won’t happen as it doesn’t make financial sense…)
Kingdomonsterdeath
Well, maybe 10 years. After that, most Americans will be on the slave farms. You won't need to worry about buying luxury items. Or food, clothing, health care, etc. It will all be provided for the livestock.
XEndeadX
Except what idiot is going to go through all the work of setting up all these new supply lines and factories just for the TACO to cut a deal with someone and pull the tariff, flooding the US with cheap ass goods again that you now have to compete with.
MrAndaren
The US climate does not support growing most of the fruits on our shelves. There is physically no way to supply the US with pineapples, oranges, mangos, etc. from within our own borders. It can't physically be done, not at scale.
ReaperCDN
The prices won't go down then either. Companies aren't about to lose out on pure profit just because Trump removes tariffs. Keeping prices high is pure capitalist exploitation, and until they're taxed to forcibly reclaim those funds, they'll just keep taking and taking like a parasite that kills it's host instead of just drinking enough.
heinousanus
Ideally we don't have to get there. "Ideally" Trump benefits directly from all of this, cuts deals personally with every country, and then all the tariffs are dropped. We all need to just focus on making him work $500B and God King of the US and then he'll ease all of this. C'mon people we can do this. Just give him everything he wants all the time.
Someshithead241
They would also need to build US based supply chains, otherwise the tariff just moves from the product to the supply and changes nothing
rshini
there's flat out stuff we do not have in sufficent number. Lumber is one, you can't just cut any old tree down and make workable planks from them
InTheBeginningWasTheNerd
Not to mention all the resources. You know, like all those "raw earth minerals" that are in such abundance in the US that trump only makes them part of every single foreign deal. Or the lumber that only takes a couple decades to grow.
You _are_ ready to wait 30-50 years for all those trees to grow, right?
BikerRay
Just buy the rare earth minerals back from Russia after they mine them in Alaska. Easy.
M4UsedRollout
We don’t have to wait for lumber to grow. There’s plenty of lumber in our national parks. /s
spiderjohn36
I swear these MAGAts who truly believe a few months or even a few years of this shit will resurrect the US manufacturing should come see me. I have some cheap ocean front property in Tennessee I'd love to sell them. /S
Colopty
Frankly they probably think a policy change equals things being willed into existence.
Gofdunk
You know with global warming, you might have a real estate business there to consider that will blossom right when this cheap manufacturing starts in 50 years.
Cargobiker530
They'll pay the tariffs, charge for them, add 12% because we were stupid enough to elect Trump & wait for him to die.
daytimepajamas
I don't believe the US manufacturing shit but how cheap we talking on that ocean front property?
spiderjohn36
I can find you several reasonably priced properties upon the great Gulf of East Tennessee (aka Norris Lake).
SirRichardOfHead
It'a a steal, but you need to act fast. A lot of people have been interested!
Soufange
RyanSilver612
Really you need to act slow. Global warming will bring the ocean to Tennessee eventually
DongleDingler
The Gulf of Mexico will probably get there faster, the Atlantic Ocean would have to go over the Appalachian Mountains