Ask HN: Who's been picking up trade deals due to US tariff threats?

4 points by westurner 14 hours ago

Trump claimed tariffs are necessary due to the drug war wartime authorizations and threatened our immediate neighbors and BRICS with tariffs this year.

Which countries are winning trade and tech deals while the US is forcing itself to pay tariffs on imports to collectively punish others without due process?

anenefan 13 hours ago

As informal as it might seem listing places where the US might start losing out on trade, given the current political situation, the last thing needed is any simple list that might fuel narcissistic outrage when it might threaten the golden one's genius plan, especially later on when (if?) it doesn't pan out out and a new round of allocating blame and punishment is engaged. One can not expect such people to innately understand why some reactions occur.

Just look at Musk's outburst after he burnt tw-tter and the long term advertisers figured the people they were selling to would probably have moved on to other platforms and likewise pulled advertising from the new mess.

All we (the rest of the world) can do is hope that the initial tariffs imposed on trade will be enough to look like they're having a win.

  • westurner 13 hours ago

    "EU and Mexico revive stalled trade deal as Trump tariffs loom" https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-mexico-revive-stalled-trade...

    FWIU the President of Mexico told Trump that they would be more concerned about migrants crossing their northern border if the US were more concerned about arms trafficked to Mexico.

    • anenefan 12 hours ago

      That's sort of funny but then again IMO, the biggest difference to immigration rate and would be something the US doesn't seem to have - a fixed rate of minimum pay regardless of whether people are US born citizens or not.

westurner 13 hours ago

Is their objective to cause new manufacturing businesses to afford labor and living costs in the US?

Which metrics are the targets?

How will businesses compete in international markets with a tariff crutch subsidizing their domestic inefficiency?

Did tariffs save US steel businesses?

westurner 14 hours ago

Example: China is now buying Canadian oil (instead of Russian oil at a discount due to sanctions)