- I just wish that Trump had warned us that he planned to implement tariffs Archived Message
Posted by Sounder
on April 28, 2025, 10:59:24, in reply to "A fool and his blah blah blah*"
I think had he constantly brought it up on the campaign trail, it might have influenced the way people voted.  Previous MessagePrevious Message"customs fee" on a rug he bought. He's complaining that he bought it from an American company so he didn't think it would be an imported product. Previous MessageThe clock is ticking on trade deals that the U.S. will need to strike with many nations, most notably China, to avoid what Trump’s Treasury Secretary has described as an “unsustainable” tariffs war. But in the U.S. farming sector, the damage has already been done and the economic crisis already begun. U.S. agriculture exporters say the global backlash to President Trump’s tariffs is punishing them, especially a decline in Chinese buying of U.S. farm products, leading to cancelled export orders and layoffs. Peter Friedmann, executive director of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition, a leading export trade group for farmers, tells CNBC the number of canceled purchases of U.S. agriculture should not be described as approaching a crisis. “It is a full-blown crisis already,” he said. CNBC Despite this article, prices for cattle and hogs are at or near 52 week highs, corn and soybean prices are not good, but haven't really dropped since the tariff announcements. Wheat has taken it on the chin. |
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