Posted on 08/06/2025 7:08:06 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Your mom has 2 days to wash all your Special Socks, mucus.
mucusminimus the troll is on a roll this moanin’.
“Your Putin has 2 days to end his invasion.”
He’s busy, you’ll have to wait. Maybe another 6 months.
India is a major supplier of pharmaceuticals, particularly generic drugs, to the United States. Approximately 47% of all generic prescriptions in the US are filled by Indian companies. This significant supply contributes to billions of dollars in savings for the US healthcare system. However, recent discussions about reciprocal tariffs could potentially impact this trade relationship.
That’s the way I see it. Manufacturers are getting killed with all this uncertainty. I was against these from the beginning…..it has gotten so out of hand and it’s not helping manufacturers it’s actually (now) destroying them in the USA.
What Su-34 doink? Boom!
You guys do not see how fundamentally Trump is restructuring the American economy and the world trading system.
There is an Everest-sized mountain of investments coming to the United States — at the very moment that a new industrial revolution is arriving, which will reshore most of the manufacturing that the USA sent overseas over the last 50 years.
One of the first things that will happen will be that the federal deficit will go away. Newt Gingrich is credited with balancing the federal budget for 4 years in the 1990’s. But all he really did was restrain federal spending while a mountain of receipts poured into federal coffers from the booming stock market caused by the .com revolution of 1995-2000.
The coming stock market boom is going to dwarf that boom of 1995-2000. And because of the industrial revolution in advanced robotic factories and their digital twins—the boom won’t just end n 2030. There will be a sell off—but only briefly as the tech revolution broadens out into manufacturing.
Thanks for explaining that and it seems we have a tough 6 months ahead. The past few years have been bad for manufacturing that I don’t know how much more we can take. I hope you’re right. Thanks again for explaining.
India will never pick a side. It’s a 6000 year old civilization. It’s seen this movie before. US actually buys more from Russia (rare minerals and fertilizer).
The additional tariff is about India buying Russian oil.
China buys over 2 million barrels of oil a day from Russia. Is Trump putting an additional 25% tariff on China? No.
Diplomacy thy name is duplicity.
I’m in manufacturing (and have been for years) and these tariffs are about as helpful as Democrat soft-on-crime policies in the blue cities.
The DEI and BLM nonsense was window dressing (workers on the line thought it was a big joke). But these tariffs and foreign reaction to them? Bad news. Input costs substantially up, sales both domestic and international down, capital expenditures frozen, employees that leave not replaced or replaced by temp workers who can easily be gotten rid of at a moments notice. Those of us left have to make do with doing more work in less time. That 50 cents cost of living increase does nothing to cover the inflation at the store.
If Americans wanted a central planned economy and soviet 5-year plans, we would have voted for Bernie.
Where did you read that? India has no US specific tariff. Period.
It has the same tariff for all countries which is as per WTO rules. Only under a trade deal, can tariffs be changed for a specific country.
Sheesh. If you want to debate and discuss with people online you have to be a little sharper. Choosing and picking a side means they either pay the tariff by continuing to buy oil or they choose not to trade with the U.S. it doesn’t mean they have to pick a side in the war. The only decision they make is whether or not trade with the US is still worth it at 50% tariffs or if Oil from Russia is still worth it if it means trading with the US is lowered. It’s entirely up to them. They are sovereign but the U.S is also sovereign and can choose this route as well.
No, there is method to the madness. If India feels the pain and China doesn’t then this hurts India more than if they both were pushed. Trump has more leverage with India right now so use it. Russia can lower the price against India but then that is just not fair to China. Playing them differently is, in my opinion, the absolute right thing to do.
Everybody panic.
“Playing them differently is, in my opinion, the absolute right thing to do.”
India’s exports to the U.S. are more important to the U.S. than U.s. exports to India. India exports to the U.s. are only 18% of its exports and only 2% of its GDP. U.s. exports to India are only about half as much. India is less reliant on it’s trade with the U.s. than is China.
Trump has more leverage on China than he does on India. He’s raising the extra - you buy oil from Russia - tariff on India when he should be raising it on China.
PUT A SMOKE TARRIFF ON CANADA.
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