Posted on 04/07/2025 1:55:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Dozens of foreign governments were trying to appeal to the president to have steep tariffs rolled back, but the president and his advisers have indicated negotiations could be difficult.
President Trump’s plan to impose sweeping tariffs on most of America’s trading partners has governments across the globe racing to schedule phone calls, send delegations to Washington and offer up proposals to lower their import taxes in order to escape the levies.
On Monday, European officials offered to drop tariffs to zero on cars and industrial goods imported from the United States, in return for the same treatment. Israel’s prime minister was expected to personally petition Mr. Trump on Monday in meetings at the White House. Vietnam’s top leader, in a phone call last week, offered to get rid of tariffs on American goods, while Indonesia prepared to send a high-level delegation to Washington, D.C., to “directly negotiate with the U.S. government.”
Even Lesotho, the tiny landlocked country in Southern Africa, was assembling a delegation to send to Washington to protest the tariffs on its exports to the United States, which includes denim for Calvin Klein and Levi’s.
Mr. Trump and his advisers have given mixed signals on whether the United States is willing to negotiate. On Sunday, Mr. Trump said that the tariffs would remain in place until U.S. trade deficits disappeared, meaning the United States is no longer buying more from these countries than it sells to them. But the administration still appeared to be welcoming offers from foreign nations, which are desperate to try to forestall more levies that go into effect on Wednesday.
On Monday, as markets recoiled for a third day and Mr. Trump threatened even more punishing tariffs on China, the president said that “negotiations with other countries, which have also requested meetings, will begin taking...”
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One does not woo Trump; one negotiates with Trump.
The hat in hand express.
Giving him a bouquet and saying “We meant calling you an out of control orangeman dictator before in a nice way. You know, sort of us guys kidding each other with putdowns.”
Wow, all the doom and gloom about how wrong Trump is on tariffs. This is just the very beginning of the golden age for America despite the Democrat’s desperate efforts to destroy America and halt the destruction of their Deep State globalist lotus of power.
What many people failed to realize when they talk about smoot Hawley is that that was an active during a time when the US was a trade surplus nation.
It’s not possible for a trade deficit nation to lose a trade war against a trade, surplus nation.
Very good point. They were punitive tariffs, not reactionary.
Screw the tariffs. Let’s talk about trade barriers. Then we’ll talk tariffs.
I do not disbelieve you, but I am not sure how that works.
Could you expand on it a little so I can use the same argument in the future?
Dozens NYT?
Keep Macron on hold.
Exactly what I keep trying to explain. It’s a near mathematical certainty that the US wins the tariff war.
It must’ve pained the NYT to write this.
Indeed. ‘’The Devil holds the prayer book.’’.
Bend the knee.
You have 10 grapes
I have no grapes.
We negotiate for grapes.
I falil.
Did I lose any grapes?
In 1930 trade was .7% of GDP. That is tiny. POINT 7 PERCENT. Smoot Hawley had little to no effect on the US GD.
Hi.
Was it just .7 % of GDP in 1930?
Every thing i find says 7%.
I like your number better.
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