Bucking Trump tariffs, California will push to maintain global trade independently, Newsom says

Los Angeles Times ^ | 2025-04-04 11:10 AM PT | Jenny Jarvie

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Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that California will look for ways to expand trade and persuade international partners to exempt the state from global payback as President Trump’s sweeping round of tariffs have sent U.S. and global financial markets tumbling.

“Donald Trump’s tariffs do not represent all Americans,” Newsom said in a video posted Friday on the social media platform X. The 40 million residents of California, he said, live in “the tent pole of the US economy” that represents 14% of the nation’s GDP and is the fifth largest economy in the world.

Newsom said he had directed his administration to “look at new opportunities to expand trade and “to remind our trading partners around the globe that California remains a stable partner.”

California is a major trading partner globally, and tariffs could adversely impact many sectors of the state’s economy, from the tech industry to agriculture and the ports. But it’s unclear exactly how Newsom’s efforts to carve out exemptions would work or whether a state can forge such exceptions.

Newsom’s office said in a news release that it would work to pursue “collaborative opportunities with trading partners” that protect California’s economic interests — workers, manufacturers, and businesses — and the broader supply chains linked to the state’s economy. The administration will explore ways to “support job creation and innovation in industries reliant on cross-border trade, promote economic stability for businesses and workers impacted by federal trade disruptions [and] safeguard access to critical supplies, such as construction materials needed for recovery efforts following the devastating Los Angeles firestorms.”

Kush Desai, a White House spokesman, responded by saying “Gavin Newsom should focus on out-of-control homelessness, crime, regulations, and unaffordability in California instead of trying his hand at international dealmaking.”

Stock markets worldwide careened even lower Friday after...

[PMAS]

Also illegal like Caifornia’s voters

[Wpin]

That must be a criminal act...arrest that bastard.

[blackdog]

Fire at my six, and fire at my twelve, run, roh.......I'm in the middle.

Pure idiot.

[ClearCase_guy]

States acting independently, trying to make deals with foreign powers behind the back of the federal government? That’s definitely illegal.

[silent majority rising]

LOGAN ACT!

[Diogenesis]

going against the Republic is not only treason,
but should logically yield the immediate loss
of ALL federal funding.

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The shape-shifter shifts back.

[SmokingJoe]

“Kush Desai, a White House spokesman, responded by saying “Gavin Newsom should focus on out-of-control homelessness, crime, regulations, and unaffordability in California instead of trying his hand at international dealmaking.””

Yup.
Let's see Newsome’s US Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard to control the seas, airports and imports.

[43north]

TRAITOR 👎

[Jim W N]

He’s got a problem with the Constitution on that one (U.S. Const., Art. I, Sec. 10).

[lightman]

If they want to re-establish the Republic of California I wouldn’t start of civil war over it.

Goodbye and good riddance!

[cableguymn]

No, it won’t. thanks for playing(newscum).

[Gen.Blather]

Newsome doesn’t seem to understand how tariffs and trade works.

It reminds me of talking to my boss who was directing the strategy of the multinational we worked for. He said something that made me realize, he had no idea what he was doing or how the situation worked. I felt a heat flash over my whole body because all of our jobs were resting on the shoulders of an idiot. A handsome, smooth talking, persuasive idiot. It took about a year and the company went under. He and all the top guys got massive separation packages.

[Sirius Lee]

Did...did California just secede from the Union? If so, great.

[TheThirdRuffian]

It is. This is a direct violation of the Logan Act.

[A strike]

Ha, Ha, Ha, HA, HA ..
DipSchiff Newsome can do Nothing about the tariffs except attempt to use CA taxpayer money to offset them.
Braindead is as braindead does.

-fJRoberts-

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I am relieved that Newscum dropped the “I am a changed man” routine.

[crz]

It appears this MOFO has never read the enumerated powers.

I actually hope he tries this.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Sounds like President Trump needs to put tariffs on the “Californacators”. They are their own country now. A colony of Red China according to Queen Newsom.