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Trump Escalates Trade Tensions With Call For New China Tariffs


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2018 Apr 5, 5:31pm   9,116 views  22 comments

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-05/trump-orders-consideration-of-100-billion-in-new-china-tariffs

Here goes the third volley.
Right after Kudlow has spent days trying to calm investors.
The media had spent months explaining us why trade is good in spite of all the losers.
The NYT had just explained us why China is confident it can win a trade war.

Popcorn needed here!

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1   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Apr 5, 5:38pm  

He's doing his usual.

Sorry Lefties, but you know it's coming: "Art of the Deal".

The more resistance, the more he ups the ante when he knows the other party is desperate to make a deal.

Amazing how the same people who think Putin must be stopped, are rooting against the USA in it's disagreement with a literal Communist State (not just a flawed Republic).
2   lostand confused   2018 Apr 5, 5:40pm  

LOL we have what 500 billion in trade deficits with CHina ?
3   Heraclitusstudent   2018 Apr 5, 5:40pm  

Related: China cut debts while growing: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-05/china-cuts-debt-while-sustaining-economic-growth

An other attempt to convince people that China is just about to move in the consumer column, and so free trade is absolutely worth it.
Reality: China's national saving rate is around 46% (2016) meaning it spends only about half the money it receives, while others go in debt to compensate.
4   FortWayne   2018 Apr 5, 5:46pm  

We are building China at expense to our middle class.

Only Trump looks out for America looks like.
5   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Apr 5, 5:53pm  

FortWayne says
We are building China at expense to our middle class.


Yep, that's why Wall Street Loves it.
"Hey, there's this furniture company, low PE, let's take it over and outsource everything from North Carolina and subcontract instead to China"
6   deepcgi   2018 Apr 6, 12:52pm  

They will have to tighten up the shadow banking shenanigans. Too much money is fleeing China to buy real estate elsewhere. And the poor in China are still dead poor and serving as slave labor. Quite a mess. To me, it looks like just the sort of trouble that will stall RE sales.
7   Heraclitusstudent   2018 Apr 6, 6:14pm  

China has a simple, linear plan going from here to worldwide hegemony by simply assuming the US is a bunch of greedy people who will blindly follow their personal interests and not hesitate to sacrifice a common future in the process.
Unfortunately this last point is true enough.
I can imagine Clinton would go out of her way to not disrupt the status quo for fear of the market going down a bit or the farmers getting agitated. And anyway the rise of China is inevitable, right?
Enter the other baboon, aggressive and unpredictable, disreputable and disruptive, the sand in the gear, the fly in the ointment, the monkey in the wrench, and the pain in the ass of Xi 'inpain.
Not a big fan of Trump, but something needs to be done, and someone needs to do it.
8   FortWayne   2018 Apr 6, 8:12pm  

Thank god for Trump.
9   zzyzzx   2018 Apr 9, 7:45am  

When a car is sent to the United States from China, there is a Tariff to be paid of 2 1/2%. When a car is sent to China from the United States, there is a Tariff to be paid of 25%. Does that sound like free or fair trade. No, it sounds like STUPID TRADE - going on for years!
10   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Apr 9, 7:40pm  

China’s president promises to cut auto import tariff
BEIJING (AP) — President Xi Jinping has promised to cut China’s auto import tariffs and ease restrictions on foreign ownership in its auto industry amid an escalating tariff spat with Washington.

In a speech Tuesday at a business conference, Xi made no direct mention of the dispute with President Donald Trump but pledged to open China’s markets further and improve conditions for foreign companies.

Xi said Beijing will “significantly lower” tariffs on auto imports this year and ease restrictions on foreign ownership in the auto industry “as soon as possible.”

https://t.co/4sIILAQxa9

Don't worry, you won't get an acknowledgement about this success from the WSJ, CATO, NYT, the Koch Brothers or the Coc Suckers.
11   Y   2018 Apr 10, 6:00am  

Double digit dimensional strategy and the fruit that it bears is a thing to behold...unless your TDS is stomping on your senses...

TwoScoopsPlissken says
Xi said Beijing will “significantly lower” tariffs on auto imports this year and ease restrictions on foreign ownership in the auto industry “as soon as possible.”
12   komputodo   2018 Apr 10, 7:26am  

HEYYOU says
Yeah! Right! China will just lay down?


I'm sure they won't. But does that mean that the typical american citizen needs to fear china? Must we fear everyone that doesn't agree with us? Must we live in constant fear? MAGA

13   komputodo   2018 Apr 10, 7:39am  

Damn, I wish I would have been forewarned about this trade war with china. I haven't quite filled my 2 car garage to the ceiling with cheap imported junk stored in cheap plastic containers. And I only have 5 LED tvs in the house. Salad shooters are gonna cost 10% more. This would never had happened under hillary's watch.
14   MrMagic   2018 Apr 10, 7:48am  

TwoScoopsPlissken says
Don't worry, you won't get an acknowledgement about this success from the WSJ, CATO, NYT, the Koch Brothers or the Coc Suckers.


Or that this announcement has the DOW up +489 right now.
15   zzyzzx   2018 Apr 10, 7:51am  

it's almost like there's something to this whole negotiation thing President Trump has been talking about.

Wonder why no one thought of it before him.

He does it so well, it's almost like he might have written a book about it.

Tariffs are working very quickly.

Its as if Donald J Trump was a business man before!
16   MrMagic   2018 Apr 10, 8:12am  

zzyzzx says
it's almost like there's something to this whole negotiation thing President Trump has been talking about.

Wonder why no one thought of it before him.

He does it so well, it's almost like he might have written a book about it.

Tariffs are working very quickly.

Its as if Donald J Trump was a business man before!


It's interesting what happens when you don't roll over and bow down to other foreign leaders.






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17   Heraclitusstudent   2018 Apr 10, 10:27am  

China is known to pay lips service "yeah we're gonna liberalize and remove tariffs" and then continue exactly as before.
Don't fall for that crap.
It will take years of high drama negotiations to push the needle even a bit.
18   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Apr 10, 10:30am  

Heraclitusstudent says
China is known to pay lips service "yeah we're gonna liberalize and remove tariffs" and then continue exactly as before.


Yes, back when it was all nicely worded letters and polite requests.

When they face a 25% tariff, and several of their large industries face major export hurdles, and they're fearful of mass layoffs with hundreds of thousands of angry young single males, they will follow through.
19   Heraclitusstudent   2018 Apr 10, 10:37am  

The trade deficit problem cannot be solved by removing a few tariffs in China. There is a saving deficit in the US and unless this is addressed, industries in China facing tariffs will move in some other cheap countries.

The issue that matters most is respect of intellectual property. But this is hard to enforce or verify, especially in the long term. I doubt he can address this with a 1 time threat of tariffs. This will be on-going for a long time.
20   Heraclitusstudent   2018 Apr 10, 10:42am  

"most of the pledges were reiterations of previously announced reforms"
"Analysts have cautioned that any Chinese concessions on autos, while welcome, would be a relatively easy win for China to offer the United States, as plans for opening that sector had been under way well before Trump took office. "

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china/chinas-xi-renews-pledges-to-open-economy-cut-tariffs-this-year-as-u-s-trade-row-deepens-idUSKBN1HH084
21   Heraclitusstudent   2018 Apr 10, 10:46am  

"Chinese officials have been promising since at least 2013 to ease restrictions on foreign joint ventures in the auto industry, which would allow foreign firms to take a majority stake. They currently are limited to a 50 percent stake in joint ventures and cannot establish their own wholly owned factories.

Tesla’s Chief Executive Elon Musk has railed against an unequal playing field in China and wants to retain full ownership over a manufacturing facility the company is in talks to build there. "

> Even a minority stake in a joint ventures would likely allow the Chinese to have access to technologies sufficiently to duplicate them.
22   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Apr 10, 10:53am  

Heraclitusstudent says
"Chinese officials have been promising since at least 2013 to ease restrictions on foreign joint ventures in the auto industry, which would allow foreign firms to take a majority stake. They currently are limited to a 50 percent stake in joint ventures and cannot establish their own wholly owned factories.


25 years. And CATO, WSJ, NYT, all promised every year of those 25 years it would end "soon".

Reciprocal Tariffs will definitely help.

The trade deficit and budget deficit are absolutely intertwined, as is the Savings Gap. Since outsourced manufacturing pays little to no tax, and the profits go abroad and not saved in the USA. And if it is reinvested in the US, then THOSE profits go overseas. The Free Trade myth is that when a company is outsourced or brought out to/by China, they buy US products and services; but in reality they feed the debt by buying huge amounts of US Treasuries and buying viable US Companies like Smithfield and pocketing the profit, to buy more treasuries and more US businesses, so more profit is redirected out of the US and into China's hands, so they can buy more tre---- you get the point.

As for who owns what, it's trival for a Chinese subcontractor to steal IP since they have the blueprints for hardware sitting in their lap in order to manufacture the product in the first place. Any Chinese manager who gets a 'request' from the Chinese Government to make a copy will certainly hand it over. Whether the subcontractor is 25%, 50%, 75% or 100% owned by a US Investor. It's the location that makes the IP theft possible, not the ownership.

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