We import a boatload of Nickel and Vanilla from Madagascar - not stuff you can grow/mine everywhere.
We don’t sell them a much cos the average income is $510 per year.
Because Trump’s Tax is based on trade deficit, not tariffs, we’re now slapping a 90% tariff on Madagascar.
We don’t sell them a much cos the average income is $510 per year.
Because Trump’s Tax is based on trade deficit, not tariffs, we’re now slapping a 90% tariff on Madagascar.
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Question: Réunion island is a French region. Why doesn’t it get tariffed with the EU?
Could the administration be confusing things with how much extra it costs to send things there UPS?
Could the administration be confusing things with how much extra it costs to send things there UPS?
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I understand the trade imbalance comment you made, but curious on if any tariffs applied. Thanks.
https://agoa.info/images/documents/15556/madagascar-agoa-guide-and-trade-overview-.pdf
I think Project 2025 points to expanding deals like AGOA and encouraging investment in Africa, rather than aid.
(morons)
That would be terrific news.
How will these tariffs and the expected global financial impact help Madagascar?
How about when we add in shutting down USAID with no notice and leaving the WHO?
Again just spit balling.
Cutting off access to markets doesn’t end exploitation, it ends income.
I definitely appreciate you were looking for a silver lining and didn’t intend to imply anything negative.
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Children starve to death there.
Now your country is trying to send them deeper into hell. Because eggs. Because trans baseball. Because black Disney characters.
DAY OF DISGRACE
It is difficult to really grasp how destructive and evil this whole thing is.
I knew the hideous death they die,
when famine lays its bleak hand on the door;
I knew the rich,
sated with merriment,
who yet are sad.
~ Hilda Doolittle
I oft wonder if people recognize that their leaders don't care if a famine sweeps through their population.
Goodbye cakes and pastries.
It's about obedience to the leader.
Chris Murphy has one of the best takes I've read and I think we'd be wise to understand it through this paradigm.
https://bsky.app/profile/chrismurphyct.bsky.social/post/3lluxkmx7wc2m
(That also means they round up the number.)
It’s not only self-harming, whacking a poor nation randomly and saying it’s because they are “cheating” us is immoral.
"Trumpish"
"Trumplike"
"Trump"
Definition: Immoral, evil, cruel, petty, thin-skinned, patently untrustworthy, and willfully stupider than a rock.
Just keep beating that drum until anyone with that surname quietly changes it to something that is less tainted.
can’t put a ‘heart’ on that — b.rad