Posted on 02/23/2020 4:24:20 AM PST by Kaslin
I don’t favor giving out Free Trade Agreements (FTA) like candy to every country because we want to support them, etc. This is the same trap the US fell into after World War 2 and that Donald Trump is working on getting us out of.
The FTA would be great for Brazil but no great for America mainly because there’s too much of a difference economically between Brazil and the US. A real FTA would not benefit Brazil, either.
As someone who does a great deal of business in Brazil, I fully support a smart trade agreement and trust Trump to create exactly that.
Brazil would allow US companies to sell competitively in a growing nation that is currently getting way too much from China.
Come US goods get a 60% tariff while Chinese goods get little to none.
Open it up and let us cement a free, capitalistic Brazil for generations to come!
To both sides.
Tariffs should be fair and uniform levied against specific products we want to repatriate the manufacture of same to the USA ( which is all of them IMO ). Tariffs should not target or favor a specific country. The USA still doesn't get it.
Tariff products and not countries. This is stupid. We have to stop this. We need a uniform across the board import tariff. STOP THE SHENANIGANS!!!
Question: With tariffs on goods from China to US, are Chinese items now relatively cheaper in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, etc?
We have a trade deal with Colombia and Peru. Plus some others have expressed an interest.
I am not against good relations between the US and Brazil, but like everything in DC, FOLLOW THE MONEY to the swamp rats who are in it for themselves.
Free trade per the original agreement is an abysmal failure. Work out an exceptionally favorable agreement that we can both win on while raising our people together, not criminal lefties.
I adore meu Brasil, but not enough to give them free anything. Let them prove they are a friend.
O sapo de fora nao chia.
With a logical trade agreements in place with Chile, Mexico,
Canada adding Brazil and India would insulate the US from having to deal with China. The loss of revenue would hurt China greatly and reduce their ability to be “troublesome”.
I, too, like this Hair guy - but maybe give a break to Globalism for a bit, until we find out what’s in store for us regarding the cutoff of goods from China. At least then, we may be able to identify some priorities (such as drug production) which need to be protected here.
To Hell with “Free Trade” — it’s inevitably an exploitation of the US taxpayer.
What you desire is the transformation of America into Brazil North
No the opposite you loser. When you import people and product from the 3rd world you import their standard of living. Globullist traitors should STFU. The worm is turning against you. Lay low fool.
My goals for trade would be the following - and who knows, maybe Trump and the Republicans will figure it out:
1) Identify and PROTECT strategic capabilities. I don’t really care who makes X-Boxes, but I do care about antibiotics (since both my wife and I would be dead now without them).
2) When protecting strategic capabilities, be sure to include literally everything involved with their production. For example, if table salt is needed for saline solutions, then make sure we’re producing enough salt for that. Likewise, if a factory uses a snazzy computer to run its processes, and that computer uses parts from China, figure out backup capability (either no computer, a domestic computer [good luck], or a stockpile of spare imported computers for 10 years).
3) Make companies WANT to come back to the United States. They didn’t go to China to produce things because they wanted to hang out at the Great Wall, they went there because importers would have undercut them and shut down their US production if they did not go to China (or somewhere off-shore). The two really big problems are environmental rules and unions. They need to be dealt with, or we’ll be a much poorer country as we pull back from Globalism. So, for the environment, use COMMON SENSE regulations, and also base them on strategic need. If it means using CFCs for example to make computer chips, then allow that, rather than holding up our noses out of principle, while China does it anyway. Stuff like that.
A 20% across the board import tariff solves all of the USA's fiscal and economic problems. That and restrict LEGAL immigration to almost zero new immigrants per year.
Sure throw away jobs, that will get the GOP a majority. /sarc
Environmental rules add a tiny fraction as a percent to retail costs. Also, unions are almost non existent. Those are straw man arguments. Only a true protectionist can be a Patriot.
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