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Finally, an adult in the room. We should address the problem, not its symptoms.\n\nI worry about tariff's for U.S. Territories. Most of the U.S. Territories ship goods in from the mainland USA. How will tariff's bring down inflation and prices on day-to-day products we use/eat?

What a bunch of bull shit...tariffs and a lot of them. Shut down your stinken boarder Mexico. Pull your heads out so you can see what is happening. We don't want your drugs We don't want your illegal immigrants from all over the freaking world. Shut your borders and deal with your cartel drug lords. Bring on the tariffs We don't care about Mexican products. Whatever we can't get America will make.

Your $50,000 truck is now $75,000 . But to to make other countries stop fentanyl with this threat is genius, trump knows how to get them to move there feet. ?. China makes great and terrible products, but they need to stop claiming a product is water proof when it would never make our standards for water proof, and to claim false ce certification ECT is causing deaths and fires ?. China needs to police its own

Nothing to worry about. France already tried this, so Trumo was like alright how about your wine? The French immediately surrendered. (Wine is their biggest product)

America is the number one consumer of all world products the world economy would collapse and we can start finally have more American made products.

We dont need their products. We have better products here. With better people behind them. This will help small business grow into big business.

China is using Mexico to circumvent their US tariffs by getting Made in Mexico put on their cheaply made products. 25% is s too low!

the problem is that leaders prefer to deal with larger business owners\nsince that is a lot easier to talk to a single individual person\n\nso what that means is big business can deal with those changes\nhowever all of the other small medium sme landscape suffers a lot more\n\nfor a strong and healthy economy you need a broad variety of business\nacross diverse sectors types but also different sizes for different purpose\n\nsmaller businesses creates new wealth generation new opportunities\nit is the mechanism of entrepreneurship and narrow the wealth gap rich vs poor\n\nsmaller business also is the place where innovation occurs new products\nalso entire new markets and opportunities to improve the society local cities\n\nbig business doesnt like threats coming up from smaller companies\nso there is an inherent tensions here that is self destructive to usa economy\n\nneed protect sme business against fallout from tariffs below certain size\nthat then is complex across different sectors materials products to waive that\n\nthe implications was to focus only on the top n number of sectors by revenue\nfor example raw materials metals, building materials affects both large + small\n\nso that is why the dynamic tariffs idea as a tool for negotiating other nations\nwhich is also hideously complex, so its all a lot of unnecessary beuraucracy added\n\nwhich is then against the drive to simplify government those initiatives conflicts\ndont make all your sme business rising stars pay for that --> future big business\n\nthey will remember your policies and become another anti-government all again\nthat is bad ways

It seems to me better than punitive percentage tariffs is that each foreign country can buy American products first from tracked like product categories. The United States Counts how many units of that type of United States made product was bought first by a foreign  country. Then United States consumers, or companies are allowed to buy the same matching unit count of foreign products from like categories.  In this way no foreign company selling into the United States can fluid the United States Market with cheap foreign government subsidized goods. In this tracked unit count system of fair trade one American made unit sale for one foreign made like unit sale can take place.

I will gladly pay more to keep Mexican products out of America

Canada can send our products to other countries. Man she’s tough . Humpty hates tough women .

Trump isn’t very Intelligent and acts like a Mobster. He doesn’t have any Critical Thinking Skills as he runs like a Wild Bull on the Plaines. Believing he’ll get kick backs on one or all of these so called Tariffs. It’s no different than what he did his first administration with many donations (kickbacks) from World Leaders! All of which weren’t reported and only recently documented. What’s happening in this new coming Administration will look like the biggest HEIST IN AMERICAN HISTORY, with the replacement of every government employee with (YES) Employees. Trump’s in debt for 2 Billion after the Election; so he’ll have to get his money back through every course possible! Which will lead to every American being put in the Poor House during his time in Office. People will have to remember his comments demeaning every American as losers as he Raises Taxes and Product Inflation go through the roof, while the wealthiest live TaX Free again within his Second Administration! “Sometimes in Life, you can’t see the Forest for the Trees.” It’s harder to see the TRUTH, by the amount of the LIES!???

As a Canadian all I can say is that it is time to find better partners then a quixotic USA. Here is a great option for Canada and Mexico: we have 2 months to negotiate with China and set up back-end rebates to incentivize Canadian companies to export places other than the USA. Now we can have a trade war and starve the USA of necessary products because we found other markets.

Why aren’t the news agencies talking about how China has moved thousands of containers of raw materials to Mexico to have manufactured into the products affected by tRump’s prior tariffs, thereby circumventing those tariffs!!

You guys are rockies in economy most of the products from Mexico are producers

That's okay. We already know how to make refried bean slop with U.S. grown ingredients and can manufacture our own knock-off souvenir trinkets! No need for Mexican imported products!

Talking head opinions...\n\nFacts:\nMexico was the United States’ top goods trading partner in 2023 with total two-way goods trade at $807 billion, surpassing China. In comparison, U.S. goods trade with Canada totaled $782 billion, while trade with China totaled $576 billion. U.S. exports supported an estimated 1.1 million jobs in 2019.\n\nMexico vehicle manufacturing impact: approximately 3.7 million vehicles with 79% of production exported to the United States and 109,000 car manufacturing employees in Mexico. Automotive and auto parts manufacturing in Mexico is clustered around Saltillo, Coahuila; the state of Puebla, the state Guanajuato; the state of Aguascalientes; and the state of San Luis Potosí.\n\nOver 5 years the exports of Mexico to United States have increased at an annualized rate of 5.49%, from $323B in 2017 to $421B in 2022. Mostly cars, delivery trucks and computers.\n\nOver 5 years the exports of United States to Mexico have increased at an annualized rate of 5.31%, from $227B in 2017 to $294B in 2022. Mostly refined petro, gas, and car parts.\n\nThere is room to negotiate.

Trump is an idiot and he's going to tank the Midwest red States producing farm products. Those farming red states export to those countries that trump will tariff and those countries are going to set their own tariffs on the US imported products including farm produce, auto goods etc. But hey they voted the idiot in and now they get what they get. ?

Mexico and South America thought them productions was gotten be reestablished to them.. and tax US as the middle man with the help of china billion dollar import in Peru, and choke hold on them minerals within the Caribbeans… it looks like a transfer of wealth was cooking up with the full support from the ?donkey party.

Everyone in Canada and Mexico should boycott US products.

Mexico isn't the US's punching bag anymore! Americans consume this product? And 70% of the guns confiscated are from the US! America has a drug consumption and gun problem! Address these issues first!

I don't think anyone that voted for Trump knows basic math. I know you people on here think Mexico is going to pay the tariffs but the truth is the consumer payees for the tariffs and taxes of all goods coming from Mexico. They way I see it. The American people are just making Trump even more money. Yes please close the borders and see how ridicule's high your ever day goods will sky rocket. With the exception of guns the USA doesn't provide Mexico with any essential products. Again do your math people. On top of that. You can't bully Mexico anymore. Those times are over.

TRUMP DOESNT 2ANT MEXICAN PEOPLE, BUT WANTS THEIR PRODUCTS, AND WANTS TO FORCE AMERICANS TO PAY 25 PERCENT MORE FOR THOSE PRODUCTS.\nAMERICANS WILL REFUSE TO PAY.\nTHIS WILL NOT WORK FOR ANYONE. BUT.....STUPID RICH AMERICANS WANT THIS FOR THE WORLD.

We have a lot of farm land and rivers and oceans on both sides we should not allow anything coming in why are we making other countries rich and make our medicines we need to build hotter refineries to my synthetic resources and products so we are not slaves or dependant on any country so we can start reopening our factories and any company getting other countries to make their products kick them out and send them to that country its now america first and only the hell with the world and we if we want to trade we trade in our hemisphere and if they get their products from the other hemispheres we can them and not allow to enter if you want to trade making us American slaves then move to that hemisphere you traitors we must become fully self sufficient and independent depending on no other country for resources and parts and products and medical equipment and medicines and fuel and oil in case of world war and a catastrophy and plaque and anything

TRUMP MANUFACTURES TRUMP PRODUCTS SUCHS AS HIS TIE’S IN CANADA INDONESIA TURKEY AND CHINA ?? OHHH THE HYPOCRISY

TRUMP MANUFACTURES TRUMP PRODUCTS SUCHS AS HIS TIE’S IN CANADA INDONESIA TURKEY AND CHINA ?? OHHH THE HYPOCRISY

That can’t be good. Putting a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico could cause a lot of problems. First, they might fight back by adding their own tariffs on U.S. goods, which would hurt American farmers and businesses that sell products to those countries. It would also make things we buy, like cars and food, more expensive, which isn’t great for anyone.

Biden didn't reverse tariffs since American companies raised prices, to match new higher prices of Chinese products. That was beginning of inflation.

Tariffs are important it saves jobs in America by not allowing countries to dump extra cheap products in the country to run business in America out of business like what just happened in Chicago with a tire plant cheap tires coming from China forced a sumitomo tire plant in Chicago to close and lay off American workers. Stop listening to these people on the media who gets their talking points from the same Globalist that is destroying America ?

In 1930 American politicians decided to significantly increase tariffs \nand 25 other countries immediately responded by imposing significant tariffs\non American products and the trade war made the depression significantly worse.\n\nTrump's trade war won't likely lead to a depression but it will make things \nworse for almost everyone.\n\nExpect higher inflation, economic stagnation and also economic disruption \nas American companies can't suddenly and magically create new production \nto replace imports and can't do it as cheaply or they would already have been doing that\nand American exporters are going to face tariffs and sanctions imposed \non their products by other countries.\n\nThe extremely integrated car manufacturing industries in the United States, Canada and Mexico could be thrown into chaos.\nAn average car part crosses a border about 8 times during production.\nHow the heck do high tariffs deal with that standard car production situation?\n\nTrump would know all this if he thought about history or\nabout how the North American economy works or thought at all\nbut thinking is not something that appeals to Trump.\nInstead he just spouts out whatever random idea pops into his head \nand calls it policy.

The MAGA cult sheep who think that Trump adding a tax onto all imported products \nwill save them money are about to get a basic lesson in arithmetic and economics.\n\nAny 7 year old could have explained it to them but MAGA cult sheep don't like \nto listen to people explaining reality to them - \nit reminds them that they are disconnected from reality.

for those that don't understand tariffs. If I currently import a t-shirt from Mexico for 10.00 and sell it in the US for 15.00, I make 5 dollars in profit which I use to pay my staff and keep my business running. When Trump puts a 25% tariff on that t-shirt, it now costs me 12.50.You think I am going to eat 2.50 per t-shirt. No, I'm now going to charge you, the consumer, 17.50 for the same t-shirt because my cost of doing business has not gone down. You all really need to do some research and understand tariffs. I'm not moving my business to the US. I'm still getting the same amount of money for my products. The US consumer is footing the bill....

People don't understand, when we buy their goods it grew their economy because our currency is higher then the rest of the world, if they want to buy from us they spend millions on it that is why they trade with Chinese in buying. Currently, they spend their money on cheap fake good that lasted only for a mouth or weeks from China. \nShe thinks she can grew our economy with their little money. It's time we forecast on our farmers instead of this so called traitors who buys Chinese good and sell their product to us

Has there been a Trump Brand product that wasn't made in China????

It's time our farmers will grow our own products and sell them to our own markets without competition. Bring back all Agricultural industry back. Make America great Again.\nThey have disrespected us and send migrants in.\n\nWe buy and buy and buy from them without them buying our goods now it's to put and end to it if they keeps on disrespecting our borders.

Racist Trump has not been sworn in and he is already attacking the Mexican President, American consumers will pay more for imported products not Mexico, Canada and China.

What product did Maxico sell to China and that they keep on buying their goods? Punish them.\nDid they actually think China will buy their goods? She has loud mouth so shut her mouth up with Tariffs with their goods maybe China buy their Mexican goods ????.\nDid they think Chinese will buy their full grow cow and transport it China which is hundreds of miles away?

Close the border dollar anything or any products in or out lock it down.

This is interesting! If you take Economics 101 you will find that tariffs are not paid by another country but are passed down to the consumer(s). Is Trump's thinking that if products cost more from Mexico that Americans will buy products from someone else? And in this case most products come in from elsewhere so the U.S. consumer will be paying hire prices on what we purchase. America does not manufacture a lot of our products anymore. Trump has 1950's economic views.

Trumponomics means artificially making tariffs impossible to pay and frustrating Americans from buying import goods so that we'll turn entirely to domestic production.\n\nTrumponomics also has a geopolitical aspect, in that super-high tariffs as well as tariff exemptions can be leveraged as political blackmail or reward, respectively, to influence other countries to toe the Trump line.

An American worker earns more than 200% compared to a Mexican worker, in addition to all the regulations and taxes. A 25% increase in tariffs will affect us, but it won't relocate jobs or move production from Mexico to the United States; in fact, it is inflationary for Americans.

Tariffs will make demand higher. That will be taken up by more drug production in the states.

I really hope prices go way up. Counter productive you might say, but I want trump voters to understand what they just did.

9 million Americans are employed for companies that produce products for Canadians. Canada should stop buying those products and put those 9 million people out of work.... They can thank Trump.

The U.S. will learn a lesson soon, You cannot impose tariff on all products coming from Mexico without hurting your economy. The U.S. citizens will pay that decision without a doubt. Trump has no idea of how an economy works. In my opinion he should resign as a president even before he takes oath on January 2025. He should be put in a mentally psychiatric institute at least for 4 years until he learns his lesson.

As employees of GM/Chevrolet, I am extremely worried about the potential impact of Trump's tariffs, particularly on Mexico and Canada. Our products are manufactured globally, so I am curious to see how Trump's supporters would react if the prices of vehicles like the Silverado and Tahoe increased by 35%. Get ready, America, because we may be in for four years of unprecedented chaos.

How is tariffs from Mexico going to affect us in anyway? The point of tariffs is to stop businesses from moving to Mexico and shipping their products into the U.S. We wont be paying them anything because we dont ship anything there

Mexico need to call us Americans exactly what we are: dope fiends hooked on a product we know is killing us…..and the drug is stupidly laced with fentanyl ?‍♂️.

TBH - I think it’s a shame for any company to have its product made in China. I am liberal AF, but have always been disappoint with how globalization has been the downfall of American dominance in manufacturing.

So we import Lumber, oil, cars, and more from Canada. So gas is going up Lumber is going up, and cars are going up. The last Trump admin Trump hit Canada with a 25% Tariff on steel, Canada then slapped in response a 25% and dollar for dollar Tariff on US products. I'll say it again Trump does NOT know what a Tariff is or works. So if your in a hurricane state and are re-building your getting hit with a 25% plus increase.