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My Revised Tariff Plan
Brian Griffin | 4/14/2025 | Brian Griffin
The total tariff shall be:
1. 25%, on aircraft grade aluminum alloys and automotive grade ferrous metal,
2. on national security products [we could and should make],
a. initially 0%, and then increasing by 2% at the start of every IRS quarter month after 2025 to 20%, on
I. industrial level components,
II. any drug for lawful retail sale & consumer use,
III. drug, chemical and plastic industrial inputs, other than refinery hydrocarbons and those for making fertilizer,
VI. semiconductors,
V. solar cells and panels,
VI. basic rare earth element products other than ore,
3. 0%, on
a. other raw materials, including coffee beans, fertilizers and their precursors,
base metals, electricity, raw & refined hydrocarbon products,
when vended without resale or short leash supply restriction,
b. foodstuffs, when sourced from a country for which the Secretary of Agriculture justly holds in good standing
for lack of undue impediment on import of US agricultural products generally vendable in the USA,
4. tariffs paid on section 1 and 2 imports, except from China,
may creditable on a one-to-one basis after bona fide export of manufactured products containing them
via any optional scheme the Secretary of Commerce may allow a bona fide manufacturing exporter to participate in.
The base tariff, on all imports not assigned a total tariff, shall be:
1. 20%, on items of a type that have been sold at retail that can be made and packaged by automated equipment,
2. 10%, on any other product,
3. 200%, on a service such as gambling or pornography historically banned by law, or
4. 10%, on any other service.
The base tariff for a particular import shall be:
1. increased 2% per dollar as estimated by the Secretary of Commerce,
on the industry wage shortfall of a key source country compared to the USA,
up to 20%, but levied only if the country is industrially advanced,
2. increased by the percentage of the latest 12-month US<->international commercial cash flow US shortfall,
excluding most raw material transactions, as to be estimated by the Secretary of Commerce, up to
a. 10%, if the key source country is industrially advanced,
b. 5%, otherwise,
3. increased by the percentage of the latest 12-month US<->the key source country commercial cash flow US shortfall,
excluding most raw material transactions, as to be estimated by the Secretary of Commerce, of up to
a. 10%, if the key source country is industrially advanced,
b. 5%, otherwise,
4. adjusted based on the latest 12-month US<->foreign exchange rate change,
as to be computed at least annually by the Secretary of Commerce, with
a. proportional addition by up to 5%, when unfavorable to the US dollar,
b. proportional reduction by up to 5%, when favorable to the US dollar, but to not less than 10% tariff,
5. as directed by the President of the United States and otherwise allowed by law,
adjusted based on domestic producer profitability, by industry and/or product type,
except when the import is a garment from a country that is not industrially advanced,
or contains intellectual property of key value significance,
as shall be calculated by the Secretary of Commerce, with
I. a 10% addition, no domestic producer of product or service type,
II. addition of calculated percentage that is less than 10%,
III. reduction by calculated percentage that is less than 10%, but to not less than 10% tariff.
For tariff purposes, a country is to be considered industrially advanced if it:
1. exports vehicles sold in the USA, other than motorcycles, which can be driven on a federal interstate highway,
2. produces an aircraft, or more than 10% of an aircraft by value, when such aircraft is certified by the FAA,
3. enriches uranium,
4. produces weapons for export to the USA which had a listed import value in excess of $100 million
in a prior 12-month period less than 24 months past,
5. is considered as such by the Secretary of Commerce for reasonable cause.
There shall be no tariff on bartered items internal to a motor vehicle organization, bartered beverage exchange system, or other barter system approved for tariff exemption by and justly held in good standing with the Secretary of Commerce.
[Certain dollar amounts on apparel, electronic and stuff typically sold below any possible US production amount
should be tariff exempt, not never the whole item regardless of cost. We don’t need to be importing $1,000 cellphones that
could be made in the USA for far less.]
The Secretary of Commerce may by regulation provide tariff exemptions up to the following amounts:
1. $100 on a laptop or personal computer
2. $60 on a smartphone
3. 10 cents per square inch of LCD screen
4. $45 per hard disk drive
5. $1 per first GB of solid-state memory and 20 cents for each additional GB
6. $5 on a shirt, blouse or dress
7. $4 on a pair of pants or skirt
8. $1 on an undergarment
9. $15 on a suit
10. 10 cents per inch of sewing, up to $2 on shoes and any other garment including dolls clothing
11. 80% of the genuine wholesale value of material in a garment
12. 90% of the genuine wholesale value of precious metal in an item of jewelry
13. such amounts on kitchen appliances that do not exceed
80% of values of competitively priced basic models as of June 1, 2023
14. such amounts on hand tools, powered and unpowered, that do not exceed
80% of values of competitively priced basic models as of June 1, 2023.
The Secretary of Commerce or any federal judge shall refuse admission to the US to products whose ability to be supplied to the US market might be the result of a coercive technology transfer agreement, patent infringement or technology or trade secret theft.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4310879/posts
The Levi company hates you and everything you believe in. And you want to give them a higher profit margin?
WTF is wrong with you?
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In this case, it is actually entirely inside the borders of South Africa.
The fact that Asian companies are there trying to get around tariffs, plays a factor in how tariffs are implemented.
Again, the country has a culture problem. Rampant HIV infection . It’s a them thing. Our taxes have other priorities. We don’t need to be in n debt
Yes; but South Africa is a country; Southern Africa is a region.
Lesotho is its own country.
Jeez, you’re a nasty person.
hey npr
how about a story about all the Americans thrown out of work when levis moved its production offshore
lesotho benefited from a bad US policy
now it is being corrected
What this says to the world is that policy should be geared towards reducing dependency on trade with the US, either as an import source or export destination, if it is going to be abused as a geopolitical weapon.
China are rubbing their hands with glee at what the US is doing to itself by making overdependence on US markets and supply chains look like a serious strategic liability to every other country in the world.
“It is shortsighted of Trump not to take into account other factors besides the trade imbalance.”
Trump is also taking into account their high tariffs on US goods.
40% on apparel
25% on cars
15% VAT on all imports.
Consider Lesotho and jeans under my tariff plan:
The base tariff, on all imports not assigned a total tariff, shall be:
1. 20%, on items of a type that have been sold at retail that can be made and packaged by automated equipment,
2. 10%, on any other product,
That 10% is the baseline Trump tariff.
The base tariff for a particular import shall be:
1. increased 2% per dollar as estimated by the Secretary of Commerce,
on the industry wage shortfall of a key source country compared to the USA,
up to 20%, but levied only if the country is industrially advanced,
Lesotho isn’t industially advanced. It is exempt.
2. increased by the percentage of the latest 12-month US<->international commercial cash flow US shortfall,
excluding most raw material transactions, as to be estimated by the Secretary of Commerce, up to
a. 10%, if the key source country is industrially advanced,
b. 5%, otherwise,
Lesotho isn’t industially advanced, so at most 5% more.
3. increased by the percentage of the latest 12-month US<->the key source country commercial cash flow US shortfall,
excluding most raw material transactions, as to be estimated by the Secretary of Commerce, of up to
a. 10%, if the key source country is industrially advanced,
b. 5%, otherwise,
Lesotho isn’t industially advanced, so at most 5% more.
4. adjusted based on the latest 12-month US<->foreign exchange rate change,
as to be computed at least annually by the Secretary of Commerce, with
a. proportional addition by up to 5%, when unfavorable to the US dollar,
b. proportional reduction by up to 5%, when favorable to the US dollar, but to not less than 10% tariff,
At most 5% more.
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The Secretary of Commerce may by regulation provide tariff exemptions up to the following amounts:
7. $4 on a pair of pants or skirt
10. 10 cents per inch of sewing, up to $2 on shoes and any other garment including dolls clothing
11. 80% of the genuine wholesale value of material in a garment
[So 10% to 25% tariff on the non-exempt value. The tariff might come to 40 cents on a pair of jeans.]
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There shall be no tariff on bartered items internal to a motor vehicle organization, bartered beverage exchange system, or other barter system approved for tariff exemption by and justly held in good standing with the Secretary of Commerce.
[If American jean components are used, the tariff could go to zero cents.]
take that back
no pork is cleaning up the country?
and when it comes to islam just ignore the theocracy
you remind me of obama admiring china for being able to get things done (with slave labor)
Under Islam, there are rules. When a country is chaotic, obviously they may be attracted to Islam because it will provide order.
“...that’s still operating after U.S. President Donald Trump announced in April he was slapping the impoverished nation with the highest tariffs in the world.
Many others have been forced to close down, with buyers spooked by the 50 percent tariff announcement even though they’ve been paused, for now.”
If Trump’s tariffs are not in effect, then why are they closed and NPR blaming it on Trump? See you can answer your own question in the same sentence.
wy69
Levi’s in Lesotho because they work cheaper than Americans, right?
What does the USA produce that Lesotho wants to buy. Not including free stuff? They have a life expectancy of 50 years and the economy is farming and manufacturing clothing for multi national corporations which is exported all over the world.
“Trump is also taking into account their high tariffs on US goods.”
Third World countries typically have high tariffs because typical Third World incomes are too low to be taxed.
One of the reasons for the Trump 10% minimum tariff is because many low-income American residents can’t be expected to pay 10% 1040 tax on their entire income. The Trump tariff is imposed on the money low-income American residents are actually able to pay to Uncle Sam.
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Europe has value added taxes. This is because if the income taxes were raised, many Europeans wouldn’t be able to pay their bills.
What may be done is to set the Trump minimum to the higher of 10% or the source country maximum VAT level.
Why the maximum? Because lower rates are set on necessities such as food. Europeans grow most of their own food.
“What does the USA produce that Lesotho wants to buy.”
Lesotho needs drugs and medical equipment.
Lesotho needs stuff like copper wire and large building air conditioners for infrastructure.
Of course. Just pointing out that technically, you are both right.
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Preposition
1. Expressing the situation of something that is or appears to be enclosed or surrounded by something else.
Except that it’s very misleading to people who don’t know the geography; they’ll go about thinking that Lesotho is part of South Africa when it’s expressed that way.
All US tariffs are in direct response to tariffs acting against US imports INTO the country. So, what is Lesotho blocking?
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