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Although I am concerned about Toy Soldier increases my real concern is for Medical Supplies and Pharmaceuticals. We have sent all our know how and manufacturing to China and they have us by the proverbial ying-yang. Hopefully they will knuckle under because we buy 5 to 10 times more imports then they buy our exports.

Howard
 
I really appreciate the informative posts and passionate debate.

The geo-political and economic issues related to the tariffs and this administration’s policies are deep.

However, in the end none of this helps me and my daily cost of living.

New Trump and old Biden policies along with explanations and equations all lead to nothing but pain and hardship for everyday people like me.
 
Although I am concerned about Toy Soldier increases my real concern is for Medical Supplies and Pharmaceuticals. We have sent all our know how and manufacturing to China and they have us by the proverbial ying-yang. Hopefully they will knuckle under because we buy 5 to 10 times more imports then they buy our exports.

Howard
Same for the rest of the Western World.
 
I now see that Sierra Toy Soldier has now implemented Tariff pricing (Tariff Surcharge) on at least the JJD April release sets that I looked at on their web site. Mounted figures with an original MSRP of $108 are now $137. Artillery extension sets with an original MSRP of $166 are now $200. Not good news. This will be a deal breaker for many collectors. My heart goes out to the dealers that are being impacted.

Mike
I wonder if prices will go back down if the tariffs are eventually reduced/eliminated. Hardly ever see prices reduced.
 
I wonder—if only U.S. importers are the ones paying the tariffs, then why are over 70 countries lining up to negotiate? If nothing has changed for them financially, shouldn't they just relax and watch as the U.S. raises prices internally?
 
I wonder—if only U.S. importers are the ones paying the tariffs, then why are over 70 countries lining up to negotiate? If nothing has changed for them financially, shouldn't they just relax and watch as the U.S. raises prices internally?

It affects sales and demand by making the imported product more expensive. That sort of is the whole point of trariffs- too make the local product more attractive.
 
I don't understand the comments some are sharing about the Americans paying for our security. All I can say is that I like Yanks, but in no universe would I ever want to be one. The animosity is palpable. I don't think a single sports match starts without the American anthem being booed by the audience.

Brendan
Booing the American anthem in Canada to protest U.S. tariffs is about as effective as banning Russian vodka in the U.S. last year to show support for Ukraine. The result is the same—symbolic gestures that may boost local patriotism.


The question is: is this really the essence of true patriotism?
 
It affects sales and demand by making the imported product more expensive. That sort of is the whole point of trariffs- too make the local product more attractive.
So, in other words, other countries simply don’t want to lose their market share in a wealthy country like the U.S., even while they benefit from a trade deficit in their favor. Who else is going to buy their products at these kinds of prices? The U.S. has the luxury of choice—they don’t.


The European car market is dead in China, and they're struggling to compete with Chinese manufacturers who use cheap labor and technologies that were, in many cases, stolen from them. It seems the entire concept of globalism has just been pronounced dead. It is strategically important that we produce steel, aluminum, and pharmaceutical products locally in the U.S.—not in China—otherwise we risk facing another COVID-style supply chain déjà vu.
If Canada wants to protect its dairy farmers with tariffs, then what’s wrong with the U.S. using the same tool to protect its steel workers?



In the long run, they need us more than we need them—and that’s likely why so many are lining up to negotiate.
 
After what he has said about Canada and the tariffs he has threatened to impose you can hardly blame them.
I don't follow this. What did he say about them? He paid them a compliment in that he wanted them to join the US. He would not want Canada to join the US if he thought it was a terrible place. The US has effectively paid for Canada's national defense for decades. They don't have to worry about that and can use the money for other purposes while the US has fallen into ruins with our education, health, debt, and infrastructure. Canada has imposed tariffs on the US but it is threat if we do it to them?
 
I don't understand the comments some are sharing about the Americans paying for our security. All I can say is that I like Yanks, but in no universe would I ever want to be one. The animosity is palpable. I don't think a single sports match starts without the American anthem being booed by the audience.

Brendan
People who boo another country's national anthem are about as classless as it gets; you want to hate on our president, have at it, our country is not full of bad people, we're always there in times of war or peace to help other countries who need it.
 
I respect yours as well and your points are solid; we got to this due to past administrations letting China bend us over and turn a blind eye to it, no doubt recently a certain someone was in their back pocket/getting funds shuffled around to off shore accounts or "family members" for services rendered.

My issue is this 104% tariff.........oh sorry, 125% tariff...........tell you what, just flip all the cards and go right to 1000% already................is absurd, prices for just about everything we've grown dependent on due to corporate greed "Let's move production out of the US and pay peanuts for slave labor to make it and still charge the same price, we'll make a fortune!!" will skyrocket and even IF a deal is worked out, they will not come down.

Think back to when gas was 6.00 a gallon and prices skyrocketed due to increased costs to get those goods to market/the carriers like UPs/FED EX/DHL jacked up their rates due to high fuel costs..................and guess what, when the cost of fuel leveled off, the prices stayed high/the carriers kept jamming me and everyone else who brings goods in from overseas/the retailers and grocery stores did not cut costs.

This has gone well passed absurd, it's on another level now.
You are not going to get significant manufacturing back, Musk has even not offered to bring his manufacturing to the USA. Plus there are too many
Booing the American anthem in Canada to protest U.S. tariffs is about as effective as banning Russian vodka in the U.S. last year to show support for Ukraine. The result is the same—symbolic gestures that may boost local patriotism.


The question is: is this really the essence of true patriotism?
People are probably doing it because that is the one of the few things they can do, it is a visual messsage. On boycotting, once again one of the few things they can do and it is having an effect on the US, just ask those tourism places, New England etc, Canada are their biggest market, plus the farmers when they have to buy the stuff they need like pot ash, house builder, the regions of the US who are reliant on their power from Canada. The Canadian people will be more resilant than the US, so they will just soldier on as you have 'wronged' them and their elbows are up, as they are in the right. The National Anthem is a symbol of the US as is the President and booing is a way to show they are not happy with the way he and by default the US is treating them, same with Denmark, Mexico, Vietnam, Ireland, Germany, France and many others, there is some less than positive actions against the US from all of these countries, the Dutch are even peeved off with the US and it takes a lot to wrange them. They are not as peeved with other countries, the common denominator here are the US actions, stop blaming them and blame the government YOU VOTED IN, not just Trump, but the Congress and the Senate, which are both just going along with what he is doing. I think the US are suffering from 'Henry VIII syndrome', he did not see himself as the problem, it was his wives, same way as some in the US not seeing this as the US, but all the other countries. Now you have a 'king' and no one [who the US voted for] is willing to tell him to stop.
 
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