Trump Shoots Himself In Foot.

[Zacs-Master]

Trade war: Trump raises tariffs on $200bn of Chinese goods https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48210313

I love the fact that the Beeb have chosen to show a picture of the Stars & Stripes being made.

[jim360]

Breitbart is enlightening in the same way I'm an artist. It has no place in a sensible debate.

[Zacs-Master]

Holy shoot, Togo. I didn’t have you resorting to Brietbart.

[Peter Pedant]

um sozza Jim
does the phrase - sensible debate - have any meaning on AB?

[Spicerack]

Spics and Gooks, pp. Tut,tut, it's lucky some other person didn't say that.
China has massive tariffs on imported goods. Velly wise.
The EU, which 'we' all love, is built on tariffs. Tidy.
Trump introduces reciprocal tariff. The Orange Idiot hasn't got a clue what he's doing.

[Togo]

//The EU's tariffs are not "protectionist" in the proper sense of the word//

Haha. Who gets to define the word protectionist then? Like all things that emanate from the group think headquarters "words" can mean whatever we want them to at any point in time that suits us. They are also subject to re-definition at any time we find convenient.

[Spicerack]

Does anyone know when or why the left became the champions of Globalist Corporations?

[naomi24]

Zacs, No surprise you didn’t provide a link on the other thread (now closed). That thread related to fears about the economy not to my thoughts on Brexit. Good try at misrepresentation but it doesn't work when posts can be traced back.

[Peter Pedant]

// They are also subject to re-definition at any time we find convenient.//

oh come on ! you are lucky if they dont suffer redefinition in the middle of a post when the Aber realised that the top bit of his post is inconsistent with the bottom bit

(in post of more than three words so that excludes 90%)

[jim360]

It's not a matter of Humpty-Dumpty use of words. Protectionism is by nature a set of essentially universal, sky-high tariffs. The EU does not have such a set of tariffs -- granted, it does in some sectors (mainly farming), but not across the board. It is therefore not a protectionist racket. That's a matter of objective fact, not some kind of political stance. On average, EU tariffs are towards the lower end when compared to global average tariffs.

[Peter Pedant]

// it doesn't work when posts can be traced back.//

sorry on a point of order - it has been pointed out more than ONCE to me that it is NOT done to pore over other peoples past posts
and pick out the more gormless betises they have written perhaps after deep thought
and hold them up for more merciless ridicule ......

perhaps there is one rule for one poster and another rule for some others

[naomi24]

There you go, zacs. Listen to PP.

[Togo]

Funny old world. The people scweeming foul because Trump and the Americans raise tariffs to protect their manufacturing base, intellectual property, and trade opportunities with the rest of the world, hail the very same tactics as genius when employed by their beloved EUSSR. Meehh.

[Spicerack]

Togo, if you were a right-thinking person you'd understand, EU good, everything Drumph does bad.
As for your (flankly lacist) attitude to the fair dealing, paragons of international trade, the Chinese.

[Togo]

For those of you who are too squeamish to read the report in my link, this little nugget of information from it might help you to have a more tangible grasp of reality. I am not, of course, at all expecting that to happen. :))

//Behind the scenes, the push for higher tariffs began on Friday night. A diplomatic cable from Beijing arrived in Washington with systematic edits the draft trade agreement that shocked U.S. officials because it appeared to take back so much of what they had thought China had already agreed to.//

[Zacs-Master]

No done. Ha that defies the hole purpose of AB. Especially the ‘bank’ bit. If you don’t want to be caught out, don’t make irrational contradictory deposits eh!

[Zacs-Master]

(Maybe ‘hole’ was a Freudian slip?)

[youngmafbog]

Can't see how he has shot himself in the foot at all. He said he would do it - he did it.

May and the Quislings in the HoC should look and learn how to negotiate, China has been living on one sided tarriffs for some time now.

[Zacs-Master]

Oh dear.

[cassa333]

If there weren’t tariffs, big or small on whatever goods or services you want to use, there would be no need of trade deals.

However goods from a country that pays 50p an hour are intrinsically going to be cheaper. If you outsource your production to 50p an hour countries there will be less jobs for people in your own country to earn money to buy the 50p an hour goods let alone what you do produce.

Not everyone can have a highbrow job in the non manufacturing sector. The more ‘everyday’ jobs you have available the more people there are to buy stuff.