tariffs

In all the talk of US trade deficits forcing Trump et al. to erect tariff barriers to "rebalance trade", we've lost or ignored the fact that the US has an enormous digital trade surplus. See, for instance, this paper Estimating digital product trade through corporate revenue data. The US's main conventional export is currently petroleum, but it exports over twice as much in digital advertising. The US's overall "digital exports" are larger than the total exports of France, which is the world's 7th leading exporter. However, these numbers are not typically included in reports about trade deficits or surpluses.

#Trump #tariffs #USPol #USEconomy #GlobalTrade #trade

虽然有些人保持低调，祈祷着事态好转，但这是一个可怕的错误。
这场噩梦能走多远，将取决于人们现在如何开展抵抗运动。
时间过得越久，特朗普对体制的控制就越牢固，他就越有能力扩大和加强镇压。
即使仅凭特朗普草率鲁莽的政策就足以让大多数人反对他，但仅此并无法回答如何将他赶下台的问题 —— 他已经表明自己不会心甘情愿地离职。并且也无法确保他下台之后的情况能有多好 ……

这是没有办法的办法：我们必须建立强大的基层运动，通过这些运动来保护彼此，并普及对我们所面临问题的激进分析。

🧬五一动员面向华裔《五一节意味着抵抗》
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#MayDay2025 #关税 #边界 #反法西斯 #tariffs #border

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While instituting the largest tariff increase in modern history, Trump claimed that the income tax was passed for “reasons unknown to mankind” and caused the Great Depression.

Here’s the real history.
https://www.propublica.org/article/history-income-tax-history-16th-amendment-trump-tariffs-great-depression?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Tax #History #Tariffs #Trump #USPolitics

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Republicans in the US Congress are STRIPPING THEIR OWN POWER AWAY in acquiescence to the US president.

#USA #US #USpol #trump #tariffs
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/us/politics/republicans-house-tariffs-emergency-trump.html

Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion
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The administration’s lack of transparency about tariff exemptions has experts concerned that some firms might be winning narrow carve-outs behind closed doors. “It could be corruption, but it could just as easily be incompetence,” one lobbyist said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-tariffs-exemptions-pet-lobbyists-asbestos-confusion-secrecy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #Tariffs #Economy #USPolitics #Business #Industry

A stunned #Europe finally wakes up to #Trump’s #Greenland threat

An emergency meeting of #EU ambassadors will take place in Brussels on Sunday in response to Trump’s threat, which he made after an estimated quarter of the population of Greenland’s capital Nuuk joined #protests against any potential #annexation.

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #trade #economy #tariffs #sovereignty #Denmark #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #InternationalLaw
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/18/europe/europe-greenland-threat-tariffs-analysis-intl?cid=ios_app

#Tariffs, Twaddle, and #Trump: A Deal Fit for a Dolt

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I predict that by Black Friday shopping and Christmas shopping, in general, inflation will be at an all time high - double digits.

#Inflation #Economy #FedRate #Tariffs #USPOL

US tariffs boil down to a regressive sales tax that largely affects non-wealthy people after the removal of the de minimis exclusion. Combined with the bill that reduced the tax burden of the wealthy and corporations, the net result is to accelerate the movement of wealth to the wealthy. That's been happening for decades, but at this point it's now eroding ordinary peoples' hobbies to the point that they might have to give them up.

https://mastodon.social/users/jasonkoebler/statuses/115174753970647636

#USPol #economics #tariffs

"𝐇𝐨𝐰 #𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐎𝐮𝐫 #𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐈𝐧 𝟐 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 #𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬"

𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝑹𝒐𝒃 𝑹𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 #𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 & 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 #𝒇𝒂𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒔m / #𝑴𝑨𝑮𝑨, 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆'𝒍𝒍 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏:

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They made their point. Loud and clear. Worldwide. And thank you, Daddy Reagan.

"Ontario pausing Reagan ad as Trump terminates Canada trade talks"

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/24/trump-canada-doug-ford-reagan-trade-tariffs.html

#Reagan #tariffs #Trump #GOP #Republicans #MAGA #Canada #Ontario #press

The Boston Tea Party was about one person having unilateral power to impose tariffs (duties). The US was formed out of an opposition to this power and the US Constitution has specific language about it. It'd be quite a thing if the US Supreme Court undoes this founding principle. You might call that counterrevolutionary.

#USPol #BostonTeaParty #tariffs

Again & again since #Trump returned to the White House, #SCOTUS’ conservative majority has blessed his boundary-pushing policies….

But on Wednesday, the justices will consider for the first time whether to say “no” to Trump….

At issue is the legality of his…use of emergency powers to impose sweeping #tariffs on nearly every US trading partner. The outcome of the case could significantly affect the global #economy….

#law #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-tariffs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare