Posted on 03/07/2025 9:04:31 AM PST by karpov
Marc Rosenberg, founder and CEO of The Edge Desk in Deerfield, Illinois is getting ready to introduce a fancy ergonomic chair designed to reduce customers’ back pain and boost their productivity. He figures the most expensive one will sell for more than $1,000. But he can’t settle on a price, and he is reluctantly reducing the shipment he’s bringing to the United States from China.
There’s a reason for his caution: President Donald Trump’s ever-changing, on-again, off-again tariff war with America’s three biggest trading partners – Mexico, Canada and China.
The latest reversal came Thursday. Two days after imposing 25% taxes — tariffs — on all imports from Canada and Mexico and threatening to detonate more than $1.3 billion in annual U.S. trade in North America, Trump announced that he was suspending many of the levies on Mexico and some of them on Canada for a month. This was an expansion of his Wednesday announcement when he exempted auto imports from both countries for 30 days, and it also comes after a previous monthlong tariff reprieve for Canada and Mexico right before they were to take effect Feb. 4.
“Trump is jerking around the entire continent of North America right now, it’s stupid and it has to stop,” Democratic Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia said. “Today there are businesses that don’t even know if the goods they trade in are subject to Trump’s tariffs. Everything Trump does on trade seems designed to maximize chaos and uncertainty.
Rosenberg and his ergonomic furniture, meanwhile, are contending with a 20% tariff on imports from China – which Trump on Tuesday raised from 10% -- but he’s not sure where the tariff will actually land.
“The misdirection is making it very tough to plan for the year,’’ he said.
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It is way past time to permanently ban Agitation and Propaganda from all White House access.
Let them cover North Korea—where their friends are.
President Trump uses tariffs as bargaining chips—can be given up when he gets what he needs from other countries.
Trump is using “reciprocal” tariffs as a bargaining chip.
AP is trash read no further.
Not just tariffs, but how frequently he whipsaws around, creating massive uncertainty. Chaos ain’t good for markets, folks.
Trump wants to make a deal on some issues and to do so he needs leverage. Tariffs create leverage that he can trade for what he really wants.
Stopped reading at AP
I live in NYS.
We’re about to get hit big time by tariffs.
The country comes first.
I support the tariffs.
You beat me by 4 seconds with the same thought.:-)
I don't understand why this is so hard for people to figure out especially after his first term.
This guy relies on shipments from China?
And this is supposed to be a reason for Trump to curb our tariffs??
Unbelievable.
Folks might want to check our my links on this FR thread...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4302689/posts
Harm to NYS is on Deep State’s head, not Trump’s.
Trump isn’t trying to create chaos. He looks at the present situation and tells other nations that it’s unacceptable based on the past and present actions of those nations. So, he imposes a tariff. Now if the other nations accept his tariff, then we have a status quo and no chaos. But if they agree to the change that he has demanded, then the tariff is modified or nullified. That is what creates the “chaos,” and it isn’t Trump’s fault. It’s called negotiating.
The AP believes they’re relevant.
Someone needs to do an intervention.
Tagged, because I want to keep tabs on another foreign troll that FR used to ban.
On FR, they do understand. But FR has a lot of anti American never Trumpers, foreigners mostly. FR used to ban them. Not so much anymore.
But it is good for change in Washington and with the MSM and Deep State.
They used to always be steps ahead.
Your post reminds me of one of the leftist judges whose sole basis for their ruling was that the status quo was really really important.
These are revolutionary times.
Join in—or get out of the way.
Again, globalists, how dare the Us stand up for itself.
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