Posted on 03/16/2025 10:40:28 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As President Trump imposes tariffs on products from countries around the world, foreign governments are answering back with tariffs of their own.
China has targeted corn farmers and carmakers. Canada has put tariffs on poultry plants and air-conditioning manufacturers, while Europe will hit American steel mills and slaughter houses.
The retaliatory tariffs are an attempt to put pressure on the president to relent. And they have been carefully designed to hit Mr. Trump where it hurts: Nearly 8 million Americans work in industries targeted by the levies and the majority are Trump voters, a New York Times analysis shows.
The figures underscore the dramatic impact that a trade war could have on American workers, potentially causing Mr. Trump’s economic strategy to backfire. Mr. Trump has argued that tariffs will help boost American jobs. But economists say that retaliatory tariffs can cancel out that effect.
The countermeasures are aimed at industries that employ roughly 7.75 million people across the United States. The bulk of those — 4.48 million — are in counties that voted for Mr. Trump in the last election, compared with 3.26 million jobs in counties that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a calculation by The Times that included examining retaliatory tariffs on more than 4,000 product categories.
These totals are the number of jobs in industries that foreign countries have targeted with their tariffs — not the number of jobs that will actually be lost because of tariffs, which is likely to be significantly lower. But industries hit by retaliatory tariffs are likely to sell fewer goods on foreign markets, which may mean lower profits and job losses.
The jobs that could be hit by retaliation are especially concentrated in pockets of the upper Midwest, South...
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Reciprocal tariffs are "fairness."
Evidently the New York Slimes doesn't approve of "fairness."
Cutting government funding will hit Democrat voters the hardest. Rich and poor Democrats both live on the government dole.
quadrupling down on stupid
the new york times never disappoints
Well, then New York Times readers have nothing to worry about. But why, then, are they so unhappy?
That’s good news for The NY Times, right?
Egg prices are down, gas prices are down, inflation is down, illegals are leaving America...
Life is good.
Of course it will hit almost every pocket at first.
I’m good with that.
The dem mantra, one of them, is “no pain ever!”.
1 mph speed limit if they had their way...put the country 200 trillion in debt so every single person gets every single thing they need...and in many cases just want...as long as they still get their grift.
Conservatives will take a short term hit for the long term good.
The NYT are anti-American.
This. I have no tears for illegals, federal employees, foreign nation’s problems, or leftists of any persuasion.
Looks like the NYT has a robust Fake News budget.
This is great news. The people most likely to support Trump are the ones who will shrug off the pain to get the gains. Then the people who wont will be able to see the benefit to the small pain needed to protect the USA’s economy.
They seem awfully upset that Trump voters are going to suffer. Seems like they should be celebrating
Trump voters know Sometimes short term pain is needed for the long term.
What a load of lies! Those countries already put tariffs on what they get from us, we really don’t need anything from Canada, and Harris/her puppet masters would have destroyed this nation completely.
What a bunch of lies. Food is a commodity that will be bought by somebody hungry. If china doesn’t buy our food some other country will.
Oh I am sure the NYT cares about Trump voters.
More fake news from the Empire of Fake News.
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