Look, if you don't want us to buy Chinese-made products, that's fine. The issue is that huge U.S. firms are heavily integrated with China right now. Supply chains are complicated. They can't just move production elsewhere overnight, which is why these huge tariffs are going to be a problem if they continue. They could start claiming U.S. jobs too. Also, production is not going to move to the U.S. when it can just pick another cheaper option abroad that isn't China.

As it stands, the Trump admin is already granting tariff waivers to certain U.S. companies because some things simply aren't produced anywhere outside of China.

Again, the problem is that tariffs are being implemented on a whim, which is not good for U.S. companies. It's not their fault that China represented a good place to produce things.

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Posted by TeLeFaWx

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Posted on 5/22/19 at 3:13 pm to pizzatiger

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Again, the problem is that tariffs are being implemented on a whim, which is not good for U.S. companies.

Such short term thinking. Keeping China accountable and participation with more good actors will benefit everyone.

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Posted by member12

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Posted on 5/22/19 at 7:56 pm to pizzatiger

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The issue is that huge U.S. firms are heavily integrated with China right now.

Oh well. Maybe they should have thought twice about exploiting unfair trade practices to screw American workers.

If GM, Nissan, or Nike loses 6 months of production of some of their products....they deserve it. They had to see this coming with the populist angst out there for the past 3-4 years.

And FFS, Trump has been threatening this for at least two years. If they haven’t hedged their stupid beds on China by now, they should feel economic pain.

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