Posted on 01/26/2025 4:08:02 PM PST by hardspunned
Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday announced 25% tariffs on US imports, in a tit-for-tat move after US President Donald Trump hiked taxes on Colombian goods and sanctioned the country's leaders after Petro refused to accept migrant deportation flights.
Writing on X, Petro initially said he would impose 50% tariffs on US goods, but later deleted the post and announced that he had instructed his minister for external trade "to raise tariffs on imports from the US to 25%."
(Excerpt) Read more at barrons.com ...
are they not going to braid my hair? I wait, they’d the bahamas.
are they not going to braid my hair? Oh wait, that’s the Bahamas. I love spellcheck.
I can get by on tea.
Better for a person anyway.
“coffee”
I passed on the Columbian coffee today.
I can reliably buy good quality tea.
Philippines, is home to four main coffee varieties: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Great coffee - forget Colombia
Maybe they can get some help from their Venezuelan neighbors.
Señor, you must pay a 25% tariff on this stolen car.
Juan Valdez will not be pleased.
Update
The Colombians are threatening a 50% tariff!
“In another message, President Petro said, “You impose a 50% tariff on our human labor’s products to enter the U.S., I will do the same,” escalating the diplomatic crisis between the two countries.
Addressing the travel ban imposed on him and the Colombian government, Petro humorously remarked, “Trump, I don’t like traveling to the U.S. much, it’s a bit boring.”
https://colombiaone.com/2025/01/26/colombia-tariffs-us-petro-trade-war/
A 1000% tariff on Cocaine [it’s a hell’aveoffa drug] would be devastating.
Wait until we start taxing their cocaine business...or maybe just shut it down (not too hard, just a few of our boats in international waters will do it).
Many Freepers do not seem to know the difference
between imports and exports.
FYI, hey there commie, Columbia has a shortage of places to go compared to ‘murica.
Just sayin’.
How’s the skiing?
LoL attempting to steal your opponents strategy is typically a bad idea and only shows how utterly devoid of substance one is. This will likely end up collapsing his regime.
I tend to see Trump coming to his second Term much like Cyrus taking control of Babylon. It is always a bad idea to be in the way of God’s instrument.
A tariff on flower exports would deliver the same outcome. 😉
Especially when they bring him a boatload of coffee and a jar of Vaseline!
The DemonRAT party is eating this up. Along with the fag, toadie, skunks and skanks in their “national media”. Treasonous bitches.
Do both...
I’ve read that the US is Colombia’s greatest trade partner. Well if they just want to dump that in the shutter go ahead.
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