r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/Archer1407 1d ago

Trump is going to launch a trade war against California in the next few days.

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u/Thewall3333 1d ago

This is turning into a real cluster fuck. California big tech now has to figure out the absolute labyrinth of differing tariffs from the vast number of countries they import products and components from, and now they potentially in addition have to deal with a different set of negotiations and rates negotiated by California -- and potentially, in turn, a subsequent array of controls to be implemented by Trump in retaliation for those secondary efforts by California to try to quell the effects of the initial round.

Just proof of more stable genius 4D chess by the Big T!

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u/bdone2012 1d ago

I think the tech companies would prefer to not have the tariffs in California and have to deal with it. Vs paying the tariffs. Although a lot of tech isn’t importing or exporting anyway. They’re entirely online and service companies.

Something trump forgot with the whole “they’re taking advantage of us” is that all these places including Europe import way more service based stuff. And it completely offsets the trade deficit.

Generally office jobs are higher paid than factory jobs. So by fucking the economy trump is trading higher paid jobs for lower ones. They aren’t likely to materialize quickly. Or maybe never at all because companies will assume trump will be out in 4 years and the next president will undo it.

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u/BoltTusk 1d ago

Didn’t big tech move to Texas so they further lose talent?

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u/Sensitive_Sympathy74 1d ago

And Europe which announced that they will tax US services. What will really hurt is that hosting companies in Europe (like OVH) are booming.

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u/Specialist_Brain841 America 1d ago

what about companies in the US with significant clients around the world?