What Trump wants from tariffs is public displays of submission and/or bribes.
Japan isn't going to do that. Most countries won't do that. They're open to actual trade negotiations, but that would mean doing something for America, and the Trump admin simply does not think that way. They have no ask.
Japan isn't going to do that. Most countries won't do that. They're open to actual trade negotiations, but that would mean doing something for America, and the Trump admin simply does not think that way. They have no ask.
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Been saying this since his first term. Trump is legit a back of the napkin moron. He doesn’t have plans. He has no ideas. He isn’t a hard worker. He is just a blow hard.
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Then they'll counter, knowing what your starting point is.. "No. We want 15%."
If you don't give them a starting point, they don't know what to do. They base everything off your starting: "What do you want?" "Uhhh.."
This all so clearly being driven by Navarro who has zero idea what to do now that he’s broken the global economy
https://www.cbia.com/news/featured/three-lessons-tariff/
We’re way past that.
We’d love to have you back in the union.
tariffs do make sense in trump’s narcissistic brain – he wants all world leaders to line up for kissing his feet. there’s no plan beyond that, certainly not for what to do if it doesn’t work like he expected.