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Posted on 10/17/2018 7:05:22 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000
President Donald Trump plans to withdraw from a postal treaty that has allowed Chinese companies to ship small packages to the U.S. at a steeply discounted rate...
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Under the Universal Postal Union treaty, China and other developing countries have since 1969 been assessed lower rates than wealthier nations. The Times says the decision to withdraw was made at the urging of Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro. The National Association of Manufacturers said Trump deserved credit for his focus on eliminating what it called "the anti-U.S. manufacturer subsidy China receives from the U.S. Postal Service."
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
about time..
prices on the wish app just shot up.
as a ebay seller I approve. There is no reason at all I should be subsidizing China..
now about the sweetheart deal amazon has with the usps...
I bought some odd ball taps and dies on Ebay for an antique vehicle project from China. Now I know how they could sell it so cheap. Prefer to buy American and will from now on.
Before he got too old to drive, my brother used to go to the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. After the last one he went to, he said that there are 1.4 billion (or whatever the number was) Chinamen and every Chinaman had a gadget at the show. I guess the low cost mail was how they sold a lot of their gadgets.
Went to a showing of Steve Bannon’s “Trump’s War” tonight. It was powerful. Very well done. Bannon gave a talk before the movie started. He was very good. Scary times we live in, especially if the dems win. Bannon said that if the dems win back the House, it will be like the Kavanugh hearings every day. Nightmare.
Now I won’t be able to get cheap Chinese cr@p on ebay.
(shakes head)
OK, where was Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2 and BrownKlown when this idiocy was going down?
Who looks out for the taxpayer? No-one, I guess, except PDJT.
I didn’t even know such a thing existed.Most of the Chicoms probably didn't know either.
Trump is a master at pointing things out that nobody knew about.
2 years vs 144 years. What is your bitch?
Trump has been doing the research to find this stuff and correcting it.
meanwhile Fox News is pushing their poll big-time that voters like almost nothing about the President’s agenda.
17 Oct: Fox News: President Trump, health care drive midterm elections
Less than three weeks until Election Day, voters are thinking most about health care, the economy, and reining in President Trump — and Democratic candidates are benefitting.
“If the election were today, the House would most likely flip,” says Republican pollster Daron Shaw, who conducts the poll with Democrat Chris Anderson. “Republicans keep waiting for the national numbers to tighten, but they have been remarkably stable this campaign season.”
CLICK HERE TO READ THE POLL RESULTS
GOP positions out of favor. The only issue that draws clear support for the GOP candidate is border security, as those naming it as extremely important to their vote back the Republican by 23 points. Seventy percent of likely voters favor a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants currently working in the U.S. More like Obamacare (54 percent favorable) than the tax cut law (45 percent favorable) — plus health care (58 percent) is extremely important to more voters than taxes (44 percent) when it comes to their congressional vote...
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/president-trump-health-care-drive-midterm-elections
An industry I worked in during the 1990’s was targeted by China. Factories built to export received 20 year interest free loans from the Chinese government. All goods exported from these factories to the US received a 15% rebate from the Chinese government. The workers worked 10 hour days, lived 8 in a room in the company dormatory and were paid $1.00 per day. The plant dumped untreated chemical liquid wastes directly into the river behind it.
The US factories could compete with higher labor costs because they were offset by the transportation cost and there was some value to customers for shorter lead times from the US factories. However, we could not compete with the 15% export rebate our China competitors received, the free cost of borrowing for our competitor, and the higher enviromental cost of operating in the US. Our complaints to our GOP Congressman fell on deaf ears and the production ultimately moved offshore. Many US factories invested in expensive in EPA mandated environmental treatment equipment in the 1970’s and 1980’s only to see our to allow foreign competitors to compete in our domestic market without having to clean up effluent.
Many US factories that moved offshore could have competed with Chinese factories if US trade negotiators had insisted on a level playing field. The truth is four US presidents (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama) did nothing to ensure a level playing field. They deliberately and consciously sold out American workers and the US economy. They were traitors.
Ditto !!!
Well, there goes Wish.com.
The American Ebay/Amazon sellers that cried like little *itches over the China shipping deal, STILL are buying the same products from China and selling it here.
The ONLY thing the change will accomplish is to screw consumers on the prices for products that will STILL be made in China.
I have wondered how they could ship from China FREE SHIPPING on items bought on Ebay. This answers that question.
I was thinking the same. If it evens the field between a US manufacturer and a foreign manufacturer I am for it, but if all it does is provide markup to a US retailer for the same foreign made product I don’t see the merit.
Bingo!
I make my own fishing jigs and order 3D lure eyes to put on them. I can buy 500 for about $5 from China, or I can order the exact same 3D lure eyes from a American co. for $12 for 50!
The exact same thing, both from the same place in China!
The ONLY thing the change will accomplish is to screw consumers on the prices for products that will STILL be made in China.
Yeah, I guess the millions of people who have been but out of work (or forced into low-wage service jobs) by our decades-long pro-China policies need to have the cheap Chinese crap because they can no longer afford US-made products.
Keep in mind that the vast majority of imported goods don't come in through the postal system at all. A far bigger problem is the fact that imports INTO the US aren't taxed to the extent that exports FROM the US are.
But yes, when a fundamentally unfair system is put into place (and kept there long after the original justifications are gone) some will benefit and others will suffer. And when actions are at long last taken to correct the unfairness, again some will suffer.
In spite of the pro-China globalist whiners, it's the right thing to do, and I applaud President Trump for taking this action.
And for the record, I am one of those "little *itches" you complained about, but I have never resold products bought on the cheap from China. But I do find it difficult, if not impossible, to sell certain classes of items domestically because of the flood of similar stuff coming from China.
God bless President Trump.
More sanity.
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