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Taiwan eyes zero tariffs with US, pledges more investment
Reuters ^ | April 6, 202 | Ben Blanchard

Posted on 04/06/2025 11:56:22 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

TAIPEI, April 6 (Reuters) - Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te on Sunday offered zero tariffs as the basis for talks with the U.S., pledging to remove trade barriers rather than imposing reciprocal measures and saying Taiwanese companies will raise their U.S. investments.

President Donald Trump announced across-the-board import tariffs on Wednesday, with much higher duties for dozens of trading partners, including Taiwan, which runs a large trade surplus with the U.S. and faces a 32% duty on its products.

The U.S. tariffs, however, do not apply to semiconductors, a major Taiwanese export.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: eyes; investment; more; pledges; taiwan; us; zero
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Domino effect
1 posted on 04/06/2025 11:56:23 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Gee, willya look at that?


2 posted on 04/06/2025 11:58:11 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (What does the Deep State have on Dims and RINOs? Demand release of all tax returns)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That would be smart. Because it is partly the U.S. that keeps China at bay.


3 posted on 04/06/2025 11:59:02 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WWIII has begun. It's the Left in the U.S. and around the world against MAGA. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Keep an eye on the market starting at 4:00 tomorrow morning EST.


4 posted on 04/06/2025 12:00:52 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (WWIII has begun. It's the Left in the U.S. and around the world against MAGA. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Looks like Trump is building a free trade organization.

He is a builder after all.


5 posted on 04/06/2025 12:01:37 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Domino effect”

totally ... Rand Paul better accelerate his efforts to cut President Trump off at his knees before Trump gets added to Mt. Rushmore ...


6 posted on 04/06/2025 12:06:30 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Winning
and to you loser liberal non-thinking aps out there, how in the heck can you negotiate from nothing? Trump had to put a stake in the ground and say, ok now lets talk. That’s how you get 50+ nations saying “we’ll talk now”

and another point to you loser telsa haters out there, why is talking and using business worse than dropping bombs (AKA Russia/Ukraine.) My answer is you are Godless daemons, and useless fools.

CD


7 posted on 04/06/2025 12:07:01 PM PDT by Coffee_drinker (Drain The Swamp.)
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To: RoosterRedux

“Keep an eye on the market starting at 4:00 tomorrow morning EST.”

maybe I’ll just stay up since im on the west coast.


8 posted on 04/06/2025 12:08:30 PM PDT by Coffee_drinker (Drain The Swamp.)
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To: Coffee_drinker

On Friday I got into a bit of an argument at work about tariffs


9 posted on 04/06/2025 12:12:11 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: RoosterRedux

“Keep an eye on the market starting at 4:00 tomorrow morning EST.”

exactly: the market’s gonna skyrocket Monday ... TDS media will be greatly saddened; my guess is that the stock market will no longer be a news item ...


10 posted on 04/06/2025 12:15:07 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ya gotta watch out if you are at work.


11 posted on 04/06/2025 12:15:58 PM PDT by Coffee_drinker (Drain The Swamp.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I expect another significant sell off and likely another one within the next few weeks. Investors dont know how this is going to shake out.


12 posted on 04/06/2025 12:18:04 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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The futures don’t look so good, but that is as of last friday. So I was hoping for more good news, maybe by Wednesday this week markets will turn. I just need to try and keep my margin calls to a minimum! Ya I learned my lesson...


13 posted on 04/06/2025 12:20:14 PM PDT by Coffee_drinker (Drain The Swamp.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Futures start at 6pm est, today. BTC selling off right now. A wise man would perhaps sell some btc to buy into America and the golden age.
14 posted on 04/06/2025 12:20:57 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: Jonny7797; Vermont Lt; All
Investors are being myopic and stupid. The entire tariff Trump is proposing only effects 14% of the entire $27,700 billion GDP, or around $3,780 billion. The baseline tariff of 10% is $378 billion. So it is illogical that a sell off of this magnitude is justified in anyway. Soon investors will see that and buy.
15 posted on 04/06/2025 12:24:54 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Our “liberal” MSM labels the ONLY president who has actually helped the working middle class as racist, sexist, dumb, a Nazi, not caring about the poor...

This is the same “liberal” MSM which is foaming at the mouth today trying to rationalize a war in Ukraine.

It’s the same “liberal” MSM that is OK with censorship, propagating outright government sponsored propaganda, etc.

It’s time to stop pretending.

Our MSM isn’t liberal, it isn’t some watchdog of democracy, it doesn’t show all sides, nor do they champion human rights, free speech or anything else for that matter.

They are simply a corporate media owned or beholden to the same oligarchs that also meddle heavily on the political stage.

This MSM is predominantly Democrat and merely uses faux causes like climate change, or made up movements like BLM to push a greater socio-economic and political agenda.

The MSM is the voice of the “the man” that people talk about when they pump their fist at the sky and talk about social/legal injustice and ironically the very people that feel the system is unjust take their cues, get their ideas, so called facts and follow the science from the very people they think they oppose.


16 posted on 04/06/2025 12:25:31 PM PDT by Red6
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To: Theoria

Pre-market trading of stocks starts at 4 am. That’s when I wake up and check it every morning but Sat/Sun.;-)


17 posted on 04/06/2025 12:28:33 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (WWIII has begun. It's the Left in the U.S. and around the world against MAGA. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Amazing that a businessman knows more about business than a bunch of career politicians and goobermint economists.


18 posted on 04/06/2025 12:29:33 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: RoosterRedux

“Keep an eye on the market starting at 4:00 tomorrow morning”

No kidding. I’m biting my nails. Is the new $5 trillion investment in the USA enough to hold off another “Black Monday”?


19 posted on 04/06/2025 12:30:25 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (PDJT doesn’t just walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. He swaggers.)
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To: catnipman

“exactly: the market’s gonna skyrocket Monday ... TDS media will be greatly saddened; my guess is that the stock market will no longer be a news item ...”

I hope you’re right but I dont think so. Tomorrow is going to be ugly.


20 posted on 04/06/2025 12:31:47 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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