Who won the trade war?

Who won the trade war?

it was tough but in the end the better deal artist won.

it hasn't even started yet

If you start a trade war and wind up regressing your policy back to where it was before the war, if not slightly worse, than you absolutely fucking lost lol.

The US strengthened its bonds with everyone except the EU, who leapt into China's corner at the starting gun lmao.

just getting rid of de minimis should kill chinese imports almost entirely. I mean our former rate was 0% on almost all of those items

The US strengthened its bonds with everyone except the EU

and canada
and mexico

and everyone else.
UK is the only one that seems to have benefitted so far

And Saudi arabia, qatar and uae

Art of the fold.

Turns out it was just a scheme to get his cronies to buy cheap stocks and crypto as everyone thought.

tariffs against others are higher than before

tariffs against us are lower than before

markets are unchanged

it's called masterful negotiation and he does the exact same thing over and over again to the same confused reaction

Won? It's just getting started.

he does the same thing over and over to get the same confused reaction

And its really not difficult to see
The last decade has been so disorienting from the unhinged propaganda its nuts
NPC theory is fucking wild

benefited

They're basically a cucked nation now. I don't even think they really got anything out of it aside from that trade deal with India.

China fell behind on purpose.
In the first week of April, trump raised tariffs 20 and china didn't. China copied all other moves but they were behind by 20% in the end

US tariffs china 30%

china tariffs US 10%

Pretty obvious Trump won. Pic attached for those in doubt.

US consumers lost in every way as they shoulder the costs of the new sales tax
rest of the world still wont buy most of what US makes because they don't have to
the art of the deal was convincing the plebs their suffering is for their benefit

UK cars are under less tariffs than American made ones in America

picrel is true but unironically

you're happy about paying higher taxes?

youre happy that you get to pay more for everything?

America did

Room temperature IQ thoughts

Is it your life goal to rely on the cheapest products ever made to support you? If you atleast went out and did some actual work you wouldnt need to worry about paying for shitty quality.

What is room temperature in F? Like 50 or something? No wonder burgers are so smart

do you think tariffs only affect ucheap things? do you have the IQ of luke warm water?

this is the intelligence of the average MIGAmutt

there aren't any high quality options anymore.

if you don't like cheap goods your option isn't to buy quality goods. It's to hire other people to use the shitty goods for you.

china purposely let trump out maneuver them

kek these npcs

why are you cheering your taxes being higher?

The only way to force US companies to build in America is high tariffs. But clearly we aren't doing that anymore...lol

you think you're smarter than Scott Bessent guy? he may be a fudgepacking oddity but he knows his stuff, as long as he's running the show i am quite confident

tariffs on china are cumulative, so that 30% is on top of the nearly 30% he implemented last term.

also it's new on cheap goods since they were at 0% previously

these are extremely high tariffs. Like 3% was pretty average before trump. Now the minimum is 3x that and the max is 10x

these tariffs sound cheap in comparison to 145%, but they're still absurdly high. High enough to kill most foreign trade.

The avengers of funko pops and switch 2 releases has assembled. Get rekt faggots. Earn something and learn from it

markets went up when he lowered tariffs

not because he lowered them ENOUGH,
but because he signaled that he's willing to lower them if they cause pain.

they're still at a level that will cause extreme pain

check'd

I'm a multimillionaire

I'm fine with cheap goods because I can replace 100 chinese toasters for the cost of one good american one

and if I don't like constantly breaking toasters, I hire someone else to operate my toaster and let them deal with the poor quality.

this is how business now works. There is no quality. We hire cheap people to run cheap equipment to make cheap goods, and our profits are so high if it fucks up we just do it again.

One of my first businesses was commercial janitorial services.

I could buy one good commercial vacuum for $500 or 10 cheap bissels for the same price.

Know what I learned? 10 cheap bissels last twice as long as one good commercial vacuum.

I made millions by buying cheap crap and throwing it away instead of trying to keep quality junk running.

I'm not the only one that's seen this. It's everywhere. I now use the same principle in construction. It's cheaper to go cheap and then fix any defects than it is to do it expensive. Americans don't pay for expensive, they want cheap.

taxes were not raised NPC, you have severe TDS thoughbeit

tariffs are a sales tax
so yes, america has higher taxes on its consumers

yet

ask any business. We're about to triple our prices.

what do you think a tariff is retard

T
D
S

when trump does something retarded

smart people must be crazy

protip, Trump is a fucking idiot and you're even worse.

its amazing you can even operate a computer or a phone being this retarded

Severe case, can't take you serious kek

hah lol lmfao I was just pretending to be retarded

anyways, If I'm right nobody will be supporting trump in a few months, and you're going to have some explaining to do at thanksgiving dinner

according to my calculations!

Shut up faggot kek

In case it isnt already obvious, there are Leftypol discords that constantly raid biz. These absolute losers spend their entire day thinking up "tactics" to spread an agenda nobody cares about

I make my living guessing what will happen to the US economy in the next 5 years

I'm damn good at it too.
I hire fools like you every day.
I'm currently looking for equipment operators with a CDL if you're interested.

trump is a multibillionaire, he's better at it than you are

Even I'm not dumb enough to raise tariffs across the board by 10x

trump is a senile boomer. A loser.