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Trump triggers race to offer US concessions before tariffs hit
Posted on 4/4/25 at 7:58 am
Posted on 4/4/25 at 7:58 am
Nations prepare offers to Washington including weapons deals, dropping their own tariffs and moves against China
The US president’s executive order on the tariffs extended an olive branch to countries taking “significant steps” to remedy trade surpluses with the US and address tax, regulatory and licensing practices deemed unfair.
But capitals have less than a week to haggle. Trump on Wednesday said higher so-called “reciprocal” tariff rates would apply from April 9, after his basic tariff of 10 per cent on almost all countries takes effect on April 5.
Few of them have moved to retaliate. In an attempt to reduce its 20 per cent tariff, the EU is instead prepared to cut the $235.6bn trade surplus it racked up in 2024 by buying more US goods and lowering some tariffs.
Brussels has offered to drop car tariffs of 10 per cent to Washington’s level of 2.5 per cent, said officials briefed on the talks. It could also increase energy purchases, buy more American weapons or join US actions against Chinese product dumping.
EU officials believe stock market falls and the prospect of higher inflation will push the US to negotiate. Maroš Šefcovic, the bloc’s trade commissioner, will hold online talks with US counterparts on Friday. LINK
The US president’s executive order on the tariffs extended an olive branch to countries taking “significant steps” to remedy trade surpluses with the US and address tax, regulatory and licensing practices deemed unfair.
But capitals have less than a week to haggle. Trump on Wednesday said higher so-called “reciprocal” tariff rates would apply from April 9, after his basic tariff of 10 per cent on almost all countries takes effect on April 5.
Few of them have moved to retaliate. In an attempt to reduce its 20 per cent tariff, the EU is instead prepared to cut the $235.6bn trade surplus it racked up in 2024 by buying more US goods and lowering some tariffs.
Brussels has offered to drop car tariffs of 10 per cent to Washington’s level of 2.5 per cent, said officials briefed on the talks. It could also increase energy purchases, buy more American weapons or join US actions against Chinese product dumping.
EU officials believe stock market falls and the prospect of higher inflation will push the US to negotiate. Maroš Šefcovic, the bloc’s trade commissioner, will hold online talks with US counterparts on Friday. LINK
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Posted on 4/4/25 at 7:59 am to Jbird
This is what it was all about. The pussies on Wall Street caused this chaos.
Posted on 4/4/25 at 8:01 am to KingOrange
The pussies on Wall Street want this chaos.
Posted on 4/4/25 at 8:01 am to Jbird
But Rogerthecucker, SFP abd the rest of the clowns said Orange and his team are dummies 
Posted on 4/4/25 at 8:02 am to KingOrange
Uep
Posted on 4/4/25 at 8:03 am to SDVTiger
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But Rogerthecucker, SFP abd the rest of the clowns said Orange and his team are dummies
They are fighting so hard for higher tariffs on U.S. imports into trading partners' countries.
Posted on 4/4/25 at 8:04 am to Jbird
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Jbird
You're my favorite Hawkeye fan
Posted on 4/4/25 at 8:04 am to SDVTiger
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Javier Milei, Argentina’s libertarian president — an enthusiastic ally of Trump’s despite ideological differences on free trade — has repeatedly said he wants a US free trade deal. He celebrated Buenos Aires’s relatively low tariff figure by saying on X that “friends will be friends” and sharing a link to the song of that name by Queen.
Milei hoped to meet Trump on Thursday in Mar-a-Lago, where the Argentine will receive an award from a conservative group, and his foreign minister Gerardo Werthein was due to meet US trade representative Jamieson Greer.
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South Africa, already in diplomatic conflict with Trump over its affirmative action laws, was another nation holding out hopes of a deal. It exported $8.1bn of goods to the US last year, about half of which were critical minerals such as platinum used in cars.
Its punishment was a 31 per cent tariff, but President Cyril Ramaphosa said Trump’s move “affirm[ed] the urgency to negotiate a new bilateral and mutually beneficial trade agreement”.
Posted on 4/4/25 at 8:04 am to TigersHuskers
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You're my favorite Hawkeye fan
Been to a couple of games in KLNK, always a good time with my Husker friends.
Posted on 4/4/25 at 8:05 am to weptiger
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The pussies on Wall Street want this chaos.
The globalist pussies are who really wanted this...
Posted on 4/4/25 at 8:11 am to The Maj
Some "experts" are so very selective in which threads they drop their smarmy truths.
Posted on 4/4/25 at 8:13 am to KingOrange
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This is what it was all about. The pussies on Wall Street caused this chaos.
Wall Street isn’t incentivized to want the same things that are good for middle America.
Middle America wants quality jobs, prosperity and a reduction of the budget deficits.
Wall Street wants easy short term profits and predictable markets.
Sometimes what Wall Street does benefits middle America via increases to their retirement portfolios but that’s a secondary outcome.
Posted on 4/4/25 at 8:14 am to Jbird
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But capitals have less than a week to haggle.
They've known this was coming for weeks
Posted on 4/4/25 at 8:20 am to KingOrange
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This is what it was all about. The pussies on Wall Street caused this chaos.
Flip on any Gaslight Media propaganda outlet this morning and every one of them has some "market expert" warning Americans the potential collapse of the US economy and financial ruination is staring the US in the face, all due to Trump's reckless tariff policy.
Sell!!! Sell!!! Sell!!
Posted on 4/4/25 at 8:21 am to Bass Tiger
quote:Sounds like a few of our experts here?
Flip on any Gaslight Media propaganda outlet this morning and every one of them has some "market expert" warning Americans the potential collapse of the US economy
The smartest libertarian minds in existence.
Posted on 4/4/25 at 8:22 am to Jbird
There's no way this can be true.
Posted on 4/4/25 at 8:22 am to SDVTiger
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But Rogerthecucker, SFP abd the rest of the clowns said Orange and his team are dummies
I never called them dummies
Posted on 4/4/25 at 8:23 am to KingOrange
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This is what it was all about.
Tell Mike
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Lotus Eaters cuts through all of the BS and gets down to the nuts and bolts of it all, which is obviously to bring manufacturing and sustainability back to the United States
Posted on 4/4/25 at 8:24 am to GumboPot
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They are fighting so hard for higher tariffs on U.S. imports into trading partners' countries.
Naw. If those countries want to engage in suboptimal economic decision-making, that's their choice (and as long as we don't copy them, we get further ahead of them)
Posted on 4/4/25 at 8:24 am to SlowFlowPro
Oh noes the weak gotcha! 
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