…..they voted for it. Let them eat the fuckin tariffs.
the only person eating the tariffs are you.
trumps trade deal with Mexico and canada he signed when he was last president is up when he takes over so this tracks with his negotiation tactics.
But his real goal is building loyalty
In 2018, the
USTR launched a tariff exclusion process that would allow businesses to apply to have certain products shielded from the levies on China.
To win a badly sought-after and potentially lucrative exclusion, companies were asked to demonstrate that the tariffs would cause “severe economic harm” to the firm or US interests. They also were asked to prove that substitute products were not available outside China or that the product wasn’t strategically important to China.
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The odds of winning an exemption went down for firms whose executives backed the opposing party, the study found: The probability of approval fell by 3.4 percentage points for firms that backed Democratic candidates.
Again, this represents a significant shift in fortunes, changing the odds to just a one in ten chance of success for firms whose executives backed Democrats.
The findings “are strongly indicative of quid pro quo arrangements,” the study found. “Our evidence shows that the selling of political favors within the US federal government can take place in the open.”
1 in 5 chances for an exemption for Republican Businesses and 1 and 10 for Democrat supported.