r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 20h 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/InterestingTry5190 Illinois 19h ago

Pritzker already has a trade agreement for Illinois with Mexico. I’m sure they could set-up something like some did during COVID.

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u/WinonasChainsaw 18h ago

Based Pritzker

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u/LongLiveAnalogue 18h ago

If we ever have elections again I hope I can vote for him on a ballot. He’s a damn good governor

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u/SomeCountryFriedBS 18h ago edited 14h ago

He's about the only candidate I've voted for without pinching my nose.

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u/doughball27 17h ago

maybe he can run for president?

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u/illwill79 17h ago

He doesn't want to, by his own words. He doesn't believe billionaires should hold that office.

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u/closethebarn 14h ago

As someone from a nearish red state I envy you for your governor and hope someday he will be someone I can vote for too

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u/--kwisatzhaderach-- 18h ago

Somehow a billionaire is the one best standing up to Trump, didn’t see that coming

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u/SomeCountryFriedBS 18h ago

Billionaire with a trans sister, both grandchildren of a Ukrainian immigrant who realized the American Dream.

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u/Yoshi9909 15h ago

Despite making it through less ethical means can’t you argue with that logic that Trump is a billionaire with an immigrant grandfather who realized the American dream?

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u/SomeCountryFriedBS 14h ago

Not sure why it would be an argument but sure.

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u/Yoshi9909 14h ago

Maybe I read it wrong but I thought you were implying that Pritzker’s family had achieved the American dream while Trump’s had not. My bad

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u/donkeyrocket 16h ago

Turns out you need a "good" billionaire to take on a bad "billionaire."

I may dislike the fact that he's so incredibly wealthy but fact of the matter is he otherwise seems like a decent person, good governor, and would be a great presidential candidate. A massive outlier of the mega-wealthy that we've come to know in the US.

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u/loglighterequipment California 15h ago

Like Pritzker, FDR also came from old money and was wealthy.

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u/Yoshi9909 15h ago

JFK too

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u/thiccstrawberry420 15h ago

i read “JFC” instead of “JFK” and became immediately disappointed in myself. i mean, but that’s what i did say when i found out, as a kid, why JFK suddenly no longer was president.

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u/FlyingSagittarius 19h ago

What?  How did that happen?

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u/snuFaluFagus040 18h ago

It's a "memorandum of understanding", so I don't know what kind of teeth it actually has.

https://www.wcia.com/news/illinois-news/pritzker-signs-trade-agreement-between-illinois-and-mexico/

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u/ACartonOfHate 19h ago

Lots of states do "agreements" with other countries regarding trade, but heretofore, they haven't been actual trade agreements.

But hey, who needs laws? not the Cons, so not the rest of us.

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u/Nernoxx 18h ago

Having “agreements” and “understandings” are all good, but there is a ring around the US that enforces customs including tariffs and I’m not sure a truck driver from Illinois is going to flash something to ICE or whomever and be waved through.

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u/ChinDeLonge 17h ago

He has one with Canada and Japan as well now.

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u/WertherMyschkin 18h ago

It’s important to note that this trade agreement is not with the country of Mexico, but rather with Edomex—one of the 31 states that make up the country of Mexico. Hence, Pritzker didn’t negotiate with Claudia Sheinbaum, but rather with governor Delfina Gómez.

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u/TraditionalClick992 Canada 17h ago

He also can't sidestep Trump's tariffs. It's neat I guess to be making deals with Mexican states, but I don't see how it works around Trump's tariffs in any meaningful way. Unless he's going to establish an illegal port of entry that CBP doesn't control.

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u/BikingThroughCanada 16h ago

That's the logical next step. Or use state forces to seize existing ones.

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u/whatiseveneverything 15h ago

Do you know how this works? As far as I understand any shipping from outside the US still goes through US customs. How can a state bypass that?

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u/teoSCK 14h ago

Just to clarify, this is not a trade agreement. It is a Memorandum of Understanding to commit to keeping up trade links. Also, this is not between Illinois and the country of Mexico, but rather with the state of Mexico (administrative division surrounding Mexico City).

I‘m all for promoting free trade and I‘m glad some people in the US have the right idea, but these details matter. The Federal Government will not make easy for states to pursue their own free trade agreements, and we should not be flippant about this. The integrity of the US could be jeapordized.