>>the universe may end much sooner than previously thought

finally, some good news for once

what do you think happens when an importer can't (or refuses to) cover a tariff at the port? the goods aren't released to the importer, certainly. the goods are held by customs and either returned or, if the exporter won't take them back, auctioned off (or maybe destroyed, depending). the importer maybe gets fined and their business sure as shit suffers cause the exporter won't work with them anymore, but yeah it definitely happens. didn't used to happen much, certainly, but jacking tariff rates up to 150% or so percent out of nowhere makes this shit much more common than it used to be.

like, if i'm a bike manufacturer and i got a 3 million dollar shipment of my bikes coming over and while the boat is in transit i find out trump just jacked tariffs up on my bikes 150%, where the fuck am i gonna find 4.5 million extra dollars to pay the duty 2 days from now when it shows up?

you one of those fools who can't read a comment? i said china's not interested in sending ships full of stuff that are gonna be turned away at port by the american importer because tariffs were jacked up to a level the importer isn't willing to pay while the boat is in transit.

george soros, LOL

what chinese company is gonna send a boat full of stuff to an american importer when tariffs can pop back up any time the ship is in transit? do people think importers are gonna be willing to sign some deal that says they'll pay the duties when the ship arrives in port no matter what they end up being?

you wish. this 'temporary pause' still keeps our tariffs on chinese imports at 30%, so don't expect trade to come roaring back any time soon.

that 4" is an average. some places it's barely changed. some places it's like a foot higher.

just like microsoft to give the product a name that makes everybody think it's defective

it's odd then because while USAID money was gutted, money to egypt was not. it's still there, because of treaty

didn't congress add that funding as part of the ukraine package deal that passed under biden? or are you saying that it actually was unilaterally spent by trump in the last few months?

or are you just a moron on the internet trying to score some idiot points

which was put together by congress in a bipartisan bill. it's hardly a partisan issue decided by the president.

israel has gotten more money than egypt since the beginning. both countries have been basically bribed by the US for almost 50 years to stick with the peace thing.

the aid we give israel is part of the peace accords that the US brokered almost 50 years ago. it's the same reason we give billions a year to egypt.

it's hardly a partisan issue decided by the president.

1. who gives a shit how a president laughs
2. ukraine was, by military objective standards, the best bang for the buck we've ever had. we gave them a bunch of old equipment we wanted to replace and paid ourselves to make the new stuff.

this just goes to show how in america there is no worse crime out there than accusing a white guy of racism