HACKER Q&A
📣 westurner

Who's been picking up trade deals due to US tariff threats?


Trump claimed tariffs are necessary due to the drug war wartime authorizations and threatened our immediate neighbors and BRICS with tariffs this year.

Which countries are winning trade and tech deals while the US is forcing itself to pay tariffs on imports to collectively punish others without due process?

  👤 westurner Accepted Answer ✓
Is their objective to cause new manufacturing businesses to afford labor and living costs in the US?

Which metrics are the targets?

How will businesses compete in international markets with a tariff crutch subsidizing their domestic inefficiency?

Did tariffs save US steel businesses?

👤 westurner
Example: China is now buying Canadian oil (instead of Russian oil at a discount due to sanctions)
👤 anenefan
As informal as it might seem listing places where the US might start losing out on trade, given the current political situation, the last thing needed is any simple list that might fuel narcissistic outrage when it might threaten the golden one's genius plan, especially later on when (if?) it doesn't pan out out and a new round of allocating blame and punishment is engaged. One can not expect such people to innately understand why some reactions occur.

Just look at Musk's outburst after he burnt tw-tter and the long term advertisers figured the people they were selling to would probably have moved on to other platforms and likewise pulled advertising from the new mess.

All we (the rest of the world) can do is hope that the initial tariffs imposed on trade will be enough to look like they're having a win.