Smartphones and computers will be exempt from Trump's steep China tariffs, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed late on Friday night.

Smartphones, computers, and other electronics will be exempt from President Donald Trump’s steep China tariffs, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed late on Friday night.

  • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    661·
    3 days ago

    Jesus fucking Christ. At this point I want him to go all in on tariffs and actually hold on so at least I know what’s coming. The fucking indecisiveness and Randomness is literally driving me insane.

    • bampop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      3 days ago

      The funny thing is that it’s supposed to stimulate US manufacturing. Like companies are going to invest years of time and billions of dollars building factories and moving production to the US, because of a tariff system that changes every 2 days.

      • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        He doesn’t care about American manufacturing. That has always been a flimsy cover.

        • bampop@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Sure, it’s just a way to raise taxes on the public without calling it that. Upside is they bring in a lot of money quickly. Downside is they do a fuckton of irreparable damage to the US economy, the standard of living of people in the USA, and a fair bit of collateral damage to the rest of the world. But at least Elon gets his tax breaks for another couple of years so yay!

        • Azzu@lemm.eeEnglish
          22·
          3 days ago

          With all the interdependence we built up that’s hard to remove and would take decades, it’s kinda sensible to hope it can weather a few years of stupidity. It’s not entirely unreasonable to hope that after people seeing the first shitshow, it wouldn’t happen again.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      Welcome to government brought to you by fascism, chaos is how they consolidate power. You create enough chaos to exhaust and scare people, blaming the chaos on a scapegoat. You then say, well I could totally get rid of all this chaos if you give me the power to do so. The courts, and the legislators are obviously not equipped to stop this mess, we just need one person with supreme power to cut through the bureaucracy…

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      3 days ago

      The randomness is the point. He wants the markets to yo-yo so those with insider knowledge can make a bunch of money.

      Expect this to continue until Trump gets bored of it.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        3 days ago

        Inside a car, Silly. He wrote “literally”, and he’s not an idiot, so it’s got to be a car or truck or abattoir he’s being driven inside.