Trump 2.0 official thread

Han Patriot

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Total weight of tariffs is actually around 43% if you include preexisting tariffs from prior years.

43% tariff is a win for America. No empty shelves. No substantial price increases for consumers since Chinese suppliers will eat a portion of the tariffs. Revenue for the Treasury -$16B from April.

To see America suffer China should’ve stuck with no deal. Empty shelves remember.

Some U.S. OEMs like Topo Athletics have already reported that their Chinese suppliers will eat some of the tariffs.
Yea, i think electronics were exempted under a previous executive order.
 

Hyper

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Frankly Trump got away with this. Tariffs did not last to a point that shelves go empty. Imports were front loaded so that inflation can be managed. And oil prices crashed to the point that retail inflation is balanced by energy deflation.
 

Hyper

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Total weight of tariffs is actually around 43% if you include preexisting tariffs from prior years.

43% tariff is a win for America. No empty shelves. No substantial price increases for consumers since Chinese suppliers will eat a portion of the tariffs. Revenue for the Treasury -$16B from April.

To see America suffer China should’ve stuck with no deal. Empty shelves remember.

Some U.S. OEMs like Topo Athletics have already reported that their Chinese suppliers will eat some of the tariffs.
43% weighted tariffs were on liberation day. They were then reduced substantially.
 

supersnoop

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Total weight of tariffs is actually around 43% if you include preexisting tariffs from prior years.

43% tariff is a win for America. No empty shelves. No substantial price increases for consumers since Chinese suppliers will eat a portion of the tariffs. Revenue for the Treasury -$16B from April.

To see America suffer China should’ve stuck with no deal. Empty shelves remember.

Some U.S. OEMs like Topo Athletics have already reported that their Chinese suppliers will eat some of the tariffs.
You didn't tell the whole story
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Prices ARE going up and the Chinese suppliers are only eating some of the cost because they know the cost of logistics will also increase (along with the tariffs).

something... something... no free lunch...
 

fishrubber99

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The tariffs enacted during the first Trump term resulted in American consumers and firms mostly paying for them, any tariffs implemented in his second term will not be any different (as long as they are not so high that they translate into an effective embargo like 145% tariffs were).

This will definitely result in higher prices, we are already seeing this occur with Nintendo Switch 2 accessories and Xbox consoles increasing in price.

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iewgnem

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Total weight of tariffs is actually around 43% if you include preexisting tariffs from prior years.

43% tariff is a win for America. No empty shelves. No substantial price increases for consumers since Chinese suppliers will eat a portion of the tariffs. Revenue for the Treasury -$16B from April.

To see America suffer China should’ve stuck with no deal. Empty shelves remember.

Some U.S. OEMs like Topo Athletics have already reported that their Chinese suppliers will eat some of the tariffs.
So your win is China allowed you to surrender, so instead of collapsing you get to raise domestic taxes without losing ability to keep running massive trade deficit with China, Chinese sellers gets a massive upfront jackpot in frontloaded sales (which is anything but cheap if you've ever sold anything under rush order, especially to beat even higher tariffs), and the world establish an updated understanding of America's place where US accepts it can't survive a Chinese embargo, eg. so no hot war. and from this point on China get to call the shots in everything through threat of embargo

Did I cover everything?
 

iewgnem

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The tariffs enacted during the first Trump term resulted in American consumers and firms mostly paying for them, any tariffs implemented in his second term will not be any different (as long as they are not so high that they translate into an effective embargo like 145% tariffs were).

This will definitely result in higher prices, we are already seeing this occur with Nintendo Switch 2 accessories and Xbox consoles increasing in price.

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People are forgeting tariff pause on the other 70 countries will expire in 60 days, lol

Now that we established US cant live without Chinese exports and all other sellers are under threat of immenent higher tariffs than China, why on earth would Chinese sellers care about prices, they can jack prices up to just below the upcoming liberation day tariffs and Americans still have to buy it up.

Tariffs are a price discovery mechamism, and we just discovered a new much higher acceptance threshold for Chinese exports, Americans paying China more from now on is just basic economics
 

Hyper

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The tariffs enacted during the first Trump term resulted in American consumers and firms mostly paying for them, any tariffs implemented in his second term will not be any different (as long as they are not so high that they translate into an effective embargo like 145% tariffs were).

This will definitely result in higher prices, we are already seeing this occur with Nintendo Switch 2 accessories and Xbox consoles increasing in price.

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Trump 2.0 is much much more powerful. Just last week he lashed out over Amazon displaying tariffs on the bill. This time companies will probably eat some of the cost.
 
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