re: Campbell's, Dollar General announce "pricing action" in response to tariffs

If you would put more research into your posts, we would not have to correct you.


1- Pork isn't up DUE TO TARIFFS. In California.. It's Prop 12. farmers have to implement costly construction of compliant housing — estimated to cost $3,400 to $4,000 per sow.

2- Pork supplies are low due to slower hog slaughter rates, reduced dressed weights, a smaller breeding herd, and lower productivity per litter.

3- The USDA ‘Hogs and Pigs’ report noted that supplies later in the summer and into the fall may start to trend above year ago levels. If true, this should help temper prices as supply seasonally start to improve.
In the very near term, however, pork supply remains limited and it is likely to decline further into July as hog carcass weights seasonally decline.

Hey.. BUT ALLL THOSE TARIFFS ON PIGS!


Do better.

Broadly applied tariffs are only for the economically illiterate. It’s futile to even try to have a conversation with most of their supporters. They don’t want the facts. They hide their heads in the sand.

The restructuring of the domestic supply and manufacturing chain will be closer to a third-world (carve outs, lobbyists, corruption, limited options) than some 1950s throwback utopia.

You have never lived a day in your life without tariffs. Not a single frickin day

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You have never lived a day in your life without tariffs. Not a single frickin day

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Ok semantic man, "retaliatory tariffs" ain't a modern solution

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"retaliatory tariffs" ain't a modern solution

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What about reciprocal tariffs?

The only reason the OP posted this was as a gotcha to another thread he was in.



Like I told the other poster here. Nobody living in the USA has ever spent a day..a minute of their lives without tariffs in place. But due to Trump, it's an evil thing now.

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But due to Trump, it's an evil thing now.

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What histrionics.

It's economically inefficient and overall bad for our economy/SOL. Not "evil".

And your other argument about "never spending a minute of our lives without tariffs" ignores this question: has Trump increased or decreased them in our lives since January 1, 2025?

This a great way to tax those who are otherwise not paying federal taxes.

As nice as it would be for the US, it's not possible for any country to run permanent large trade deficits. Depending on the monetary system, the end result would be either running out of money or destroying the local currency. Since Congress will not take any action to help put America on a self-sufficient footing, tariffs are our best remaining option to avoid economic collapse.

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Can you dig into the % rate comparison for me since you're the tariff expert?

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It's not hard at all.

1- The producer of a product make "X" in profit.

2- the importer gives the producer access to the highest purchasing power in the world. Our consumers.

3- The importer does this for a profit. and that is added into the the price the consumer pays.

4- When the cost of making it does not increase, but a tariff is added, they have room to absorb it. They make deals with the importers to share that.

5- This results in the same pricing points for the consumer and the producer and importer still make a profit.

6- taxes on people are lowered and they buy more.

There is no company that has access to the US consumer going to put themselves out of business by jacking up prices to the ones they are selling to. BUT if they do, another business will gladly step in and take their share of the market.