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Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by hotwax: 7:47pm On Apr 09, 2025
spiSeyi:
Trump just proofed that he lacks the balls China has nothing to loose after all it's the US citizens that will pay heavily for the tarrif bcs the US trade is 20% grin
and china will pay stone na...china don't need economics
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by ElSudani: 7:50pm On Apr 09, 2025
incogni2o:
China should just bow and negotiate rather than just playing save-face
Black man thinking. This is how your ancestors ended as slaves in the new world.
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by Tradepunter2: 7:51pm On Apr 09, 2025
Difrent:
grin grin grin grin grin grin

Getting interesting.

Meanwhile, Russia so far is the only country that immune from Trump tarrifs, isn't this a cause for worry seeing the way Americans pretend to hate communists
Russia doesn't have any trade with the USA due to the sanctions they still under
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by voortrekker966: 7:52pm On Apr 09, 2025
foleskay:
grin
I like when a country is powerful and also brags with it. Trump is just like a lion king in the pride,he knows he's the most powerful and so commands respect from the whole pride,and banishes any dissenting lion from the pride, like the case of young male lions who are usually exiled from the pride when they re becoming too stubborn for the king.

Trump just want to use the tarriff to show the world that USA is the one calling the shots in world affairs and rebels like China would be dealt with decisively if they don't respect USA.

China will later seek for dialogue with USA when she sees that it has been isolated by USA. We go watch how this chess game unfolds.
Trump has given up on the stupid idea. He's just using China to save face.
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by RaptorX: 7:52pm On Apr 09, 2025
This Trump guy is obviously a crook and manipulating the stock market. He will announce tariffs and the stock market will crash, enabling his friends and family to buy cheap stock, then days later he will reverse himself sending stock market prices up and they sell making millions and billions of dollars then rinse and repeat.
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by shogsman(m): 7:52pm On Apr 09, 2025
Difrent:
grin grin grin grin grin grin

Getting interesting.

Meanwhile, Russia so far is the only country that immune from Trump tarrifs, isn't this a cause for worry seeing the way Americans pretend to hate communists
so with over 10,000 us sanctions against them and almost no trade, what tarrifs would the US be imposing on Russia exactly, some of you no sabi international politics
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by searchlight: 7:54pm On Apr 09, 2025
Difrent:
Actually over 24000+ sanctions
Adding anymore won't make any sense
But en be like say Russia mo even send them.
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by EBEk101(m): 7:55pm On Apr 09, 2025
Jahwinaboy:
They will actually feel little or nothing. The idea has been to drag China out. Read again, countries are willing to negotiate
That’s another way to look at it but don’t forget that most consumers goods in the US are made in china
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by Feldie: 7:55pm On Apr 09, 2025
foleskay:
grin
I like when a country is powerful and also brags with it. Trump is just like a lion king in the pride,he knows he's the most powerful and so commands respect from the whole pride,and banishes any dissenting lion from the pride, like the case of young male lions who are usually exiled from the pride when they re becoming too stubborn for the king.

Trump just want to use the tarriff to show the world that USA is the one calling the shots in world affairs and rebels like China would be dealt with decisively if they don't respect USA.

China will later seek for dialogue with USA when she sees that it has been isolated by USA. We go watch how this chess game unfolds.
he's destroyed the alliance and economy that experts and Diplomats built for the past 80 years just to show that he can make a "deal" (whatever that is). USA success was based on soft power, not showing the world that they're in charge. Even when they go to war they first do lots of propaganda to convince the world that they are doing God's work by destroying weapons of mass destruction or fighting war against terror. They don't brag that they are doing it because they can. If not they would've lost their influence already. Trump has managed to make Europeans to stop trusting USA, saying they're a bully.
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by blacksam01: 7:55pm On Apr 09, 2025
China is cheating everyone which over capacity production.. ND dumping using national subsidy...

Just imagine a whole volgswagen announcing it will stop production because of influx of cheap Chinese cars.. instead of them to act.. they are doing diplomatic trade...

Do u know that china bought the UK biggest car maker... And announced that steel in it's production will no longer be sought in the UK steel industry but imported from china.. the mumu country kept quiet..

China also came to the Netherland trying to buy the most advanced chip making firm... Almost to complete the deal just to steal it's tech.. the US all the way from the Americas intervened.. ND the Netherland saids it not the US business, but trump in his first tenure threatened heavy sanction again the Netherland if the deal goes through...

They rescinded on the deal ND when the next government of the Netherland took office , they realized how much America saved they highly priced most advanced tech...
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by omoredia: 7:57pm On Apr 09, 2025
Xisnin:
Russia didn't start existing in 2008.
Perhaps Google "Red Scare" to learn better.
America is at war with wokism, leftism and globalism now not Russia.
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by jayce232: 7:58pm On Apr 09, 2025
Focusmind:
China made a very big mistake in retaliating. There was no need fighting with Trump, knowing that China has been benefiting, disproportionately in her trade with US. Xi will put China into recession because of unnecessary fight. He should have swallowed his pride and allowed Trump be, so long China was still on top of international trade. You are fighting with your biggest trading partner, where you control 75% of trade between two of you. Xi no try at all. I forsee a 200% increase in coming weeks, as Xi try to match up with Trump's madness
Don't mind China
Very selfish & ungrateful country
Without the help of US, who for know China
This fight was very avoidable
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by MadamExcellency: 7:58pm On Apr 09, 2025
Difrent:
grin grin grin grin grin grin

Getting interesting.

Meanwhile, Russia so far is the only country that is immune from Trump tariffs, isn't this a cause for worry seeing the way Americans pretend to hate communists
There is nothing left to sanction. Russia and Iran are heavily sanctioned across the board by the United States; hence, there is little leverage.
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by Feldie: 7:59pm On Apr 09, 2025
Jahwinaboy:
They will actually feel little or nothing. The idea has been to drag China out. Read again, countries are willing to negotiate
countries call USA because it's USA that placed tariff on the whole world. Why would they call China to negotiate when China did not put any tariff on their goods? Trump has inferiority complex, always wanting to show people are bowing to him. Whether call or not, what has been established is that USA under Trump is unstable and unreliable and countries will gradually move towards a different direction.
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by Catapault: 8:02pm On Apr 09, 2025
foleskay:
I'm way more smarter than ur dumb father. O ni kuure.
School dropout with ‘attitude’.

If you see Trump now you will do frog jump for him.

Slave dunce.
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by hotseat: 8:04pm On Apr 09, 2025
DT is incurably deranged!


He seems to forget that "water wey touch p*nis go touch blokkos"!


America would end being diminished in the eyes of the comity of nations with his brashness and reckless tariffs.


America is because the world is!


America is nothing without the rest of the world.


No nation is an island unto itself!




@hotseat
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by Tendd:
Senseless! So he expected China to fold her arms and do nothing.Why 90 days for other countries?l thought everything about him is with immediate effect.Running a country is different from running his real estates or hotels.He sure knows the compounding effects of his decisions when other countries begin to impose their own tarrifs.China is a global player and would continue trading with other countries.
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by stanluiz(m): 8:06pm On Apr 09, 2025
Focusmind:
China made a very big mistake in retaliating. There was no need fighting with Trump, knowing that China has been benefiting, disproportionately in her trade with US. Xi will put China into recession because of unnecessary fight. He should have swallowed his pride and allowed Trump be, so long China was still on top of international trade. You are fighting with your biggest trading partner, where you control 75% of trade between two of you. Xi no try at all. I forsee a 200% increase in coming weeks, as Xi try to match up with Trump's madness
China will not succumb to trump. The two countries need each . They are two biggest trading partners in the world. The trade war will affect each other.

If you think, it won't affect America, them you are living in Jupiter. US stocks exchanges are still down.

Most of the products America consume are made in china because that where their industries are because of cheap cost of production and cheap labour which China.

US companies are not going to bring back their factories in US. Is not gonna happen. US has lost the manufacturing and production hub to china years ago. China is now the world factory.

US is not the only country that china trade with. It trade with EU, India, Japan, Canada, Brazil, Mexico etc. China will just reroute their exports to those countries and trade more with them.

The last time trump impose tarrif on china in 2018. China retaliated by imposing tarrif on US agricultural products. The action alone by china cost US farmers $200 billion. It pains them so hard. They couldn't export their agricultural products again to china. Trump has to save face by bailing them out with just $10 billion. What is $10 billion bail out compare to the loss of $200 billion.

What did china do ? China just starts to import their agriculture products from Brazil, Netherlands, Germany, Argentina etc because those countries are also one the biggest exporters of agricultural products. Trump finally back down. So who loose , US. The same will happen again.

Trump will destroy Us economy just like he destroys his business. You think man that bankrupted a casino will win a trade war with china cheesy Is not going to happen.
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by Catapault: 8:07pm On Apr 09, 2025
Tendd:
Senseless! So he expected China to fold her arms and do nothing.Why 90 days to other countries?l thought everything about him is with immediate effect.Running a country is different from running his real estates or hotels.He sure knows the compounding effects of his decision if other countries begin to impose their tarrifs.China is a global player and would continue exporting to other countries.
Trump is a complete Mo.ron.

He doesn’t know anything, he doesn’t read, he’s just a privileged narcissist.

Whoever allowed him to be in office wants to ruin America using him.
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by richeeyo(m): 8:08pm On Apr 09, 2025
Difrent:
grin grin grin grin grin grin

Getting interesting.

Meanwhile, Russia so far is the only country that immune from Trump tarrifs, isn't this a cause for worry seeing the way Americans pretend to hate communists
Don't talk for talking sake
They have no business going on together
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by foleskay(m): 8:09pm On Apr 09, 2025
Catapault:
School dropout with ‘attitude’.

If you see Trump now you will do frog jump for him.

Slave dunce.
Illiterate acting "smart". Oponu
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by millionboi2: 8:10pm On Apr 09, 2025
OmoEko4Real:
Trump is a lunatic.
The village idiot is destroying the US one day at a time.
i don't know btw Trump and Tinubu who is more confused 🤣😂
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by Basicend:
All I can read are quite humbled and weakened words from Trump.

China has just 16.2% of her total exports to the USA. An average Chinese investor saves about 30% of proceeds and minimize loans. So, they have prepared for this day, and can diversify their market gradually.

He knew Americans are badly feeling the heat now, and he may roast them into poverty.

He had reasoned that with 125% tariff on China, the US economy may not sustain high tariffs concurrently from other countries. He shouldn't have folded na. He needs 90 days to do a viability check.

China will surely hit back. Coz they have a point to prove to him.
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by quickly: 8:13pm On Apr 09, 2025
fergie001:
Beijing retaliated with an 84% import tariff after Trump had pushed up 104% on Chinese goods to the US


Donald Trump
China was his target all along just dey play to gallery
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by stanluiz(m): 8:17pm On Apr 09, 2025
Tendd:
Senseless! So he expected China to fold her arms and do nothing.Why 90 days to other countries?l thought everything about him is with immediate effect.Running a country is different from running his real estates or hotels.He sure knows the compounding effects of his decision if other countries begin to impose their tarrifs.China is a global player and would continue exporting to other countries.
Your last words is what Trump is yet to understand.

Trump thinks that it is only America that imports and export goods to china ? Trump also think that the Chinese economy is tied to America cheesy That's why he want china to beg. Beg him for what ?

China is a economy superpower and a global player in world trade. It is a world factory. They have everything be it technology, man powerful, population, technology etc. They are industrious, innovative, resilience and hardworking.

Trump is yet to understand that China has passed America in everything. I mean everything! Yes! They have passed America.

Trump is so delusional to think he can win a trade war with China. He will learn in a hard way.
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by jaxxy(m): 8:25pm On Apr 09, 2025
Difrent:
grin grin grin grin grin grin

Getting interesting.

Meanwhile, Russia so far is the only country that immune from Trump tarrifs, isn't this a cause for worry seeing the way Americans pretend to hate communists
How is China immune? They grew majorly of benefiting from partnerships with the US. No other country gave them a chance like America and now they are doing well see how they behave towards America?

Major Foreign companies are banned from China but yet China wants Huawei and its other heavily state influenced companies to dominate Europe, Asia and Africa.

Is that fair trade to u?
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by Elusive001: 8:30pm On Apr 09, 2025
Difrent:
grin grin grin grin grin grin

Getting interesting.

Meanwhile, Russia so far is the only country that immune from Trump tarrifs, isn't this a cause for worry seeing the way Americans pretend to hate communists
What does Russia produce that are sold outside Russia?
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by NaijaNaWaa: 8:32pm On Apr 09, 2025
OmoEko4Real:
Trump is a lunatic.
The village idiot is destroying the US one day at a time.
That man is a complete nincompoop. A horrible mistake that shouldn't have happened. Tufiakwa.
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by baralatie(m): 8:32pm On Apr 09, 2025
So will chinacounter us by raising thier tariffs from 84 to 126?...1(1.1)
Re: Trump lowers reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, imposes 125% on China goods by EmperorIsaac(m): 8:33pm On Apr 09, 2025
Tjra:
It may seem clownish to you but these guys are fighting for the future of their countries.

China is on the verge of becoming the world leader but America isn't ready to give that up soon.

Millions or perhaps billions of destinies are tied to this stuff you view as a joke.

It's a winner takes it all battle.
It's all about fear of China...I hear it everyday on the news in all their narratives. They want to remain at the top forever.
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