Dictatorships gets a discount...
Trade tariffs imposed on tiny Australian territories that are either uninhabited or claim to have no trading relationship with the US appear to have been calculated based on erroneous trade data.
In some cases involving Norfolk Island, which is 1,600km north-east of Sydney and has a population of 2,188, the confusion appears to have resulted from the fact that the company’s address or port of departure is Norfolk, UK, or the destination is Norfolk, Virginia in the US, or a company’s registered address in New Hampshire (NH) has been listed instead as Norfolk Island (NI).
in 2024 Cuba exported 4.9 million to usa and nearly 100% embargo on imports from north korea.No tariffs on North Korea or Cuba (though presumably neither of them export anything of significance to the US? Are they sanctioned already?). Curiously, Israel gets the 10% treatment.
Americans should only be buying domestically grown coffee!in 2024 Cuba exported 4.9 million to usa and nearly 100% embargo on imports from north korea.
Btw these tariffs were calculated to reduce american spending on imports and force american purchases (even where not possible). The whole thing was ding dong with huge cost on americans and doom to failure (imho)
Yea, you can't just impose this on day 1. You would have to ramp it up and provide companies years to move manufacturing back to the US. The question they failed to ask before going on this adventure is do Americans even want jobs assembling shoes and stitching t-shirts?in 2024 Cuba exported 4.9 million to usa and nearly 100% embargo on imports from north korea.
Btw these tariffs were calculated to reduce american spending on imports and force american purchases (even where not possible). The whole thing was ding dong with huge cost on americans and doom to failure (imho)
They very clearly did it based on internet domain which is how we ended up enacting tariffs on our own military bases or uninhabited islands.Not that Norfolk! Mislabelled shipments led to Trump tariffs on uninhabited islands and remote outposts with no US trade
Exclusive: Aquarium systems, Timberland boots and recycling plant parts were mislabelled as coming from remote Norfolk Island or Heard and McDonald islandswww.theguardian.com
Indoor pot, indoor coffee. There was a guy out here near where I live who did just that. Both.Americans should only be buying domestically grown coffee!
in 2024 Cuba exported 4.9 million to usa and nearly 100% embargo on imports from north korea.
Btw these tariffs were calculated to reduce american spending on imports and force american purchases (even where not possible). The whole thing was ding dong with huge cost on americans and doom to failure (imho)
It is worse than that; as Trump also cut off all aid to those countries - the same sort of double whamy on both poor in usa and poor countries...OK at this point it seems well-established they just used an utterly nonsensical mathematical formula (tariff-rate = trade-deficit divided by value-of-what-country-buys-from-US, then halved, then treated as a percentage for some weird reason).
And the worst of it (IMO) is that it ends up imposing massive tariffs on extremely poor countries like Cambodia or Sri Lanka, largely because those countries are too poor to want to buy the things the US tends to export, so the denominator is small.
This is just vicious cruelty. Imposing still more suffering on countries that are already in a bad situation. Everything else aside, the US needs to be treated as a pariah state for this.
[Edit, for some reason this discussion has ended up in the wrong thread, apologies]
OUCH, this hurts even worse and they should start to move to copper again. Or to silver if they don't want interferences.Saw this , made me smile
"Ukrainian forces reportedly struck the only plant in Russia that produces fiber optic cables that are vital for Russian forces' fiber optic drones. Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation Head Lieutenant Andriy Kovalenko stated on April 5 that unspecified drones hit the Fiber Optic Systems plant in Saransk, Republic of Mordovia.[8] Kovalenko stated that the plant produces materials for control, communication, and data transmission systems, including drone control in the Russian military. Geolocated footage published on April 5 shows an explosion and fire in Saransk.[9] The Fiber Optic Systems plant is the first and only plant manufacturing optical fiber in Russia.[10] A Russian insider source claimed that the plant produces all the Russian military's fiber optic cables.[11] The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) claimed that Russian forces shot down three drones over the Republic of Mordovia overnight, and the Republic of Mordovia Head Artyom Zdunov claimed that a drone struck an enterprise in the republic.[12] ISW cannot independently verify the damage to the Fiber Optic Systems plant, but successful Ukrainian strikes against the enterprise would likely reduce the Russian military's ability to supply troops with fiber optic cables to use with first-person view (FPV) drones on the battlefield."
Fewer of any drone the Russians can field, the better, but especially those using fiber optic tethers.
China will enter to screw them with that. Is likely a military and commercial alliance between Russia and the US. China will be left out with India and is likely that wants to ruin Europe and the rich countries.Russians and Republicans are openly campaigning to usurp Democracies across Europe by funding and organizing pro-Russia parties and having them vow to fight for Russia against Europe. It's what Musk wants to do in Germany, etc. This time Romania. To be clear, this is probably an organized effort against EVERY single Democracy in the world.
To your rascals!*Benny Hill music*
Russian scooter assault groups are on the move, stay sharp Ukraine!
60 kilometers to the charge on this hog.
Neah, the PM is an idiot used to internal Eastern European type of politics. He thought he can apply the same stuff to external politics.... It will probably cost his position, even if not in the short term. He doesn't speak english.... so he sent another idiot that has no oficial position but has an entrance to Trump Jr and hoped that would open doors for private talks with Trump senior. And why is this not done through official channels? Because it was a way for him to talk and promise Trump whatever to save his position as a PM, because if he will lose, he will also lose his own party and be gone from the leadership. Last PSD (his party) leader ended up in prison and is now a nobody. So, that idiot he sent has very extremist views, was assured by the PM that he is Romania's direct emmisary to Trump admin, so he opens his mouth on one of the national TVs that he's a bigshot and that the current President doesn't count because is not elected (interim until the presidential elections finish in may), Trump is everything, and so now this morning all embasies and chancelarries started ringing the phones to find out what's happend. Stupid part is that that person has no official possition, has no mandate and PM should have not sent him because external politics is the president's duty, not PM.Russians and Republicans are openly campaigning to usurp Democracies across Europe by funding and organizing pro-Russia parties and having them vow to fight for Russia against Europe. It's what Musk wants to do in Germany, etc. This time Romania. To be clear, this is probably an organized effort against EVERY single Democracy in the world.
The issue? as far I know the pro russian were arming to something. They were ready for a coup or even a Russian intervention if something went wrong, but this time failed. The current government is scared and Russia wants to use that against the romanians. To divide them and to infiltrate enough russians to pull the coupNeah, the PM is an idiot used to internal Eastern European type of politics. He thought he can apply the same stuff to external politics.... It will probably cost his position, even if not in the short term. He doesn't speak english.... so he sent another idiot that has no oficial position but has an entrance to Trump Jr and hoped that would open doors for private talks with Trump senior. And why is this not done through official channels? Because it was a way for him to talk and promise Trump whatever to save his position as a PM, because if he will lose, he will also lose his own party and be gone from the leadership. Last PSD (his party) leader ended up in prison and is now a nobody. So, that idiot he sent has very extremist views, was assured by the PM that he is Romania's direct emmisary to Trump admin, so he opens his mouth on one of the national TVs that he's a bigshot and that the current President doesn't count because is not elected (interim until the presidential elections finish in may), Trump is everything, and so now this morning all embasies and chancelarries started ringing the phones to find out what's happend. Stupid part is that that person has no official possition, has no mandate and PM should have not sent him because external politics is the president's duty, not PM.
How do I know? I'm romanian and now everybody is talking here about this and the PM scared about what the other idiot said, is retracting everything. Will see...
The issue is the ruling alliance, yeah, even those corrupts, has standards and they united against the invader, which is Russia, but don't forget Hungary too, since they are allies of Russia, they will use the chaos as a chance to try to invade them too. So yeah, Romania will have very hard times now.Yes, the situation in Romania is difficult, the Russians had years of infiltration here and it's still not clear how everything will get done in the end. We have a shot for sanity but it's not guaranteed, because the system was corrupt enough for russians to use it against the ruling alliance that thought nothing can touch them. Population delivered a vote against them no matter the consequences. Trump style. Except here, the Constitutional Court stopped everything and now the presidential elections are done again in may.
To your rascals!
BJ Blazkowicz outran a nuclear explosion on one of those.We ride!
If they run out, I have some suggestions
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Prices for Russian oil have fallen to $50. As Bloomberg reports, the drop in oil prices has increased pressure on the state budget, depriving the Kremlin of opportunities to increase spending for the war against Ukraine...bsky.app
sad
Trump loves wiggling his finger and getting the world to dance. He's on a perpetual power trip if you hadn't noticed. Reality be damned. He just seems tired and old every time I have the mis opportunity to see him. Dementia is setting up house.Just slightly surprised they face any tariffs at all.