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european_guy

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IMHO it would make little sense.

China mainly imports agricultural and energy (oil/gas) commodities from US: a +34% tariff practically means to put US product out of the Chinese market.

China does not need further tariffs to decouple, instead for the kind of products imported by US a 50% tariff may not be enough to stop buying Chinese, so now Trump goes all in with the 100% tariff.

I still don't understand how can US importers quickly find replacements, because for many of those products the alternative supply chains have been already disrupted or reduced to a small capacity many years ago.


Trump Tariffs Live: China strikes back with 84% tariffs​


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I was wrong!!! I really didn't expect that!

It makes no real difference 34% or 84% on commodities, so this has another meaning.

Of course there is a political meaning, China does not want to seem weak (although it was not already)....

...but maybe there are deeper reasons....maybe China sees Trump is doing everything wrong, he is actively sabotaging US and...they just lend him a hand.

I suspect China leaders see this one-in-a-century event like a big opportunity to crush US without a war and they don't want to miss it....
 

phrozenflame

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Trump Tariffs Live: China strikes back with 84% tariffs​


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I was wrong!!! I really didn't expect that!

It makes no real difference 34% or 84% on commodities, so this has another meaning.

Of course there is a political meaning, China does not want to seem weak (although it was not already)....

...but maybe there are deeper reasons....maybe China sees Trump is doing everything wrong, he is actively sabotaging US and...they just lend him a hand.

I suspect China leaders see this one-in-a-century event like a big opportunity to crush US without a war and they don't want to miss it....
MAGA hats becoming unaffordable. :Sad:
 

sunnymaxi

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China's tariffs effects ..

S&P futures dropped after China raised tariffs on U.S. goods from 34% to 84%. Treasury yields rose to 4.46%, and the WSJ Dollar Index continued to fall. Deutsche Bank’s George Saravelos warns that U.S. assets — stocks, bonds, and the dollar — are collapsing together, signaling rapid "de-dollarization" as markets lose faith in U.S. assets.

 
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