r/wallstreetbets • u/s1n0d3utscht3k • Mar 03 '25

News Trump Officially Signs 20% Tariffs on China

https://www.barrons.com/news/trump-signs-order-for-20-tariff-on-china-w-house-d6fec57f
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u/UnfazedBrownie Mar 03 '25

So what’s the end goal with the tariff, as in what levers need to be met by these countries for the tariff to be lifted? This can’t be some permanent PIP.

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u/hoopaholik91 Mar 03 '25

He thinks that because the US is more powerful than anyone else, other countries will come to him hat in hand and basically give him whatever he wants.

Like the 'deal' with Zelensky. Essentially asking vassal states to pay tribute to big bad America.

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u/giddycocks Mar 04 '25

He's so God damned dumb he didn't even do it right. He thinks countries are married to America. They are not. Countries can just trade with others and not trade with America anymore. 

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u/longperipheral Mar 04 '25

Like they did in the 1930s

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u/Key-Banana-8242 Mar 05 '25

To some extent

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u/destinyeeeee Mar 04 '25

He is used to running things like a mobster but he is going to learn one way or another that the rest of the world will only put up with it for so long.

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u/LightninHooker Mar 04 '25

I mean it may works with some countries but China... lmao anal rape incoming

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u/NoIsland23 Mar 04 '25

Only partially.

The US gets most of it's potash fertilizer from Canada (ballpark 90%). Canada can just choose another trading partner, but who's gonna start major trades with the US if they fear they're gonne be tariffed to hell and back 4 months from now, all because T felt disrespected or some mobster shit like that?

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u/TrumpAndKamalaSucks Mar 04 '25

Nah, he's tanking the economy because it's good for his daddy Putin.

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u/kritzy27 Mar 04 '25

That's how some Asian countries are now viewing us. A landlord banging on the door demanding rent.