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Effectively the prices of these items has more than doubled overnight in the US. Electrical machinery and TV parts: $124.97 billion, 28% of total imports from China Nuclear reactor parts and mechanical appliances: $82 billion, 18% of total imports from China Toys, games and sports equipment: $30.03 billion, 7% of imports from China Plastics: $19.29 billion, 4% of total imports from China Furniture, lamps and pre-fabricated buildings: $18.52, 4% of total imports from China Vehicles: $16.85 billion, 4% of total imports from China Iron and steel: $11.98 billion, 3% of total imports from China Optical and photographic parts: $11.88 billion, 3% of total imports from China Clothing: $9.99 billion, 2% of total imports from China Shoes: $9.78 billion, 2% of total imports from China. A lot of this willimediaty show in retail shops.

It seems he has lost the plot - https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/08/business/trump-tariffs-china-stock-market?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20250409&instance_id=152227&nl=from-the-times&regi_id=82327061&segment_id=195665&user_id=db98d5a13c44fc21a86bc417ce528931

Yesterday I bought a cup of coffee for $3 Now I’ve got a $3 deficit with the coffee shop so I’m imposing a 50% trade tariff on them. Today my coffee has cost $4.50

Can someone say concisely, how will the USA benefit from paying all these tariffs?

How old are you? Twelve??

so you think you can vote the world to be flat?

Trump said that!

Unbelievble!

Good idea.

Funny thing about tariffs; it's the America consumer pays them. ...and where does all the money go? = to Donald Trump's coffers.

that's not how it works ....they're called "tariffs" . Duh!

Error - "adopted EU standards of food production..."

My guess is you've never been to Europe.

In fact, the UK was never part of (continental) Europe to begin with.” “It is a piece of alien land that happens to be parked next to Europe, without belonging to it.” Wrong! The British Isles became an island around 8,000 years ago (around 6500 BC) as sea levels rose and flooded the land bridge, Doggerland, that once connected it to mainland Europe. The populations have moved freely across the Channel ever since. Including the largest gene-pool in UK today “We can start by saying that in the British Isles it is customary to drive on the wrong side of the road. In continental Europe people pride themselves on keeping to the right side.” Not as simple as you think – originally we all rode on the same side…. Change driving on the left to right. I take it your say “wrong” because you can’t tell left from right. The reason the UK and the rest of Europe drove on the right is historically connected with the international ways of handling horses – most countries in Europe stayed on this way until the 20th century. Countries that switched from left to right-hand driving many after occupation by Germany. The country that gave us the English language Austria finalized in 1938 Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic and Slovakia) 1939 Hungary - Date: 1941 Sweden: September 3, 1967 - One of the most famous switches; involved a massive public campaign Iceland Followed Sweden's lead in May 26, 1968 Italy changed in the 1920s–1927, depending on the region – it was later standardised under Mussolini; Even Germany although officially on the right, left-hand driving was common in Austro-Hungarian Empire areas before WWI Luxembourg - February 1935 Poland – gradually through 1920s–30s Areas under Austrian or Russian rule had left-side driving; unified post-WWI Slovenia - Date: 1939, under German influence Countries in Europe that still drive on the left: United Kingdom Ireland Malta (former British colony) Cyprus (former British colony) America??? United States Standardized: Early 20th century, but varied by state before that. (Watch Laurel and Hardy films) The Model T (1908) had the steering wheel on the left, encouraging driving on the right. By the 1920s, all states had adopted right-hand driving. Canada Varied by province until the early 20th century - British Columbia switched in 1922 - Prince Edward Island was last to switch, in 1924 It was thought that proximity to the U.S. would make cross-border driving easier. I’m sure they’ll consider switching back to driving on the left shortly!?! The reason that Thailand drives on the right is not because the King’s car post 1900 was British, e.g a Napier, but it was down to the Japanese during the war. “We can go on to note that the Britons insist on using imperial measurements, while continentals switched to the metric system after the Napoleonic campaigns that popularized them across the Continent.” That is nonsense – anyone over the age of 50 grew up using the metric system – I take it you are quite old? “Furthermore, Britons still weigh their body mass in stones, something continentals stopped doing at the end of the Stone Age, due to its impracticality (in the Continent, the art of picking stones of exactly equal or multiple weights for accurate measurement was lost in the Bronze Age).” – If you ever use the NHS, you will be measures in KGs – they might convert you;’re archaic ideas afterwards so as not to embarrass you. “And we can finish with food: as a great French chef observed in the eighteenth century, "Britain is an island where people are busy roasting, boiling, frying, baking, steaming a little of everything without actually cooking anything."” Not 18th C! - This was written by Paul Morand: (1892-1967) a French diplomat, writer, and critic known for his travel writing and observations of different cultures. It way have been written before the war but also possibly afterwards. English (and British” cuisine has become some of the best in the world largely due to influences from Europe. – a huge number of Michelin chefs in France are British. The reason British food has such a bad reputation is down to older people – after the war, Britain had no food to speak of and the American forces could not believe the diet of the British military and the rank an file they came into contact with – this image they took back to the states and for older people it has remained. The British recovery took several decades, and was not helped by American -style commercialism of food production for supermarkets Gradually we have overcome this and have adopted U standrds for food production – which is why today we can’t import many American foodstuffs including chlorinated chicken

Your knowledge of history isn't knowledge - it's ignorance all your point are factuallly incorrect and you also appear to be out of touch yourself You obviously have never heard of Doggerland (no that's not what you do in your car on Saturday nights)......

You are misinformed.... Tariffs or trade deficit? They aren’t the same…. The EU charges an average tariff of just 1% on US products entering the EU market, "considering the actual trade in goods". It adds that the US administration collected approximately €7 billion of tariffs on EU products in 2023 compared to the EU's €3 billion on US goods. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) estimate puts the average tariff rate on US products entering the EU slightly higher at 4.8%.... This is not balance of trade – this has nothing to do with tariffs, it is to do with what each country NEEDS or wants. EU has a lot of product wanted in the States and exports almost twice as much as it imports from th states – to get an idea, look at automobiles – American cars are simply not practical or up to standard to sell in the EU, whereas European cars are highly desirable in the states and a status symbol. When it comes to buying product, what people buy varies according to what that country is selling – Europe sells high quality goods including “groceries” made to EU standards (not chlorinated chicken). It’s like going shopping if you wanted a new suit you’d go to a taylor’s shop – you wouldn’t then charge your self an extra 34% of the suit he sells you – unless you were Donald Trump. how long Trump lasts will depend on whether or not the public will tolerate higher prices all round and a shrinking economy

If you think that blaming “bad driving” is a valid comment on this incident or road safety in Thailand, you need to rethink your ideas on road safety and look at the real dangers on Thai roads. There is no crash report for this incident and anything you say is pure supposition. Every time there’s another tragic motorcycle crash involving young people, the same tired comments pop up: “They shouldn’t have been speeding,” or “They don’t know how to drive.” “high on weed or alcohol”… Honestly, this kind of finger-pointing misses the bigger picture and does more harm than good. Risky behaviour plays a part that’s “bleedin’ obvious”, but if you keep reducing these crashes to “bad driving,” you’re ignoring the serious, systemic issues that actually make Thai roads among the deadliest in the world. Road safety is a public health issue – if you don’t see that you can’t make a valid comment. Be real! – Thai roads are themselves are unsafe. Badly designed with substandard poorly maintained surfaces, (loose materials all over Samui’s roads) - zero margin for error, no lighting at night, and sudden drop-offs or ditches make even a small mistake fatal. There are deadly roadside obstacles are everywhere. Concrete poles, trees, deep drainage canal right next to the edge of the road just waiting for any vehicle that has lost control. In many countries, these areas are cleared for safety or protected with barriers. Not here. The elephant in the room is the emergency services, which are often slow or poorly equipped. There is a lack of fully trained paramedics and no universal standard for emergency vehicles Even survivable injuries become fatal because of delays or lack of proper care at the scene and en route to hospitals. – You know of the “golden hour”? Another cliché is “police do you job” – This requires government action - it seems nobody including the police know what that job is. All over Thailand, there is almost no consistent enforcement. Helmets? Speeding? Underage driving? These things go unchecked far too often. The police are untrained, equipment is indirectly deployed If there are no real consequences, why would anything change? In fact the concept of traffic police is way too vague in Thailand. An example of police ineptitude is enforcement in the form of random checkpoints – these have been shown worldwide to be ineffective. So instead of repeating the same clichés every time a young rider dies, maybe we should start asking harder questions: Why was this teen riding motorcycles in the first place? We have to look at those back at home who should have informed him better. Rental shops now have to account for the people they rent to – e.g. valid licences and helmets od ISO quality Why aren’t the roads built to be forgiving of human error? This is a cornerstone of road safety. And most of all —we should be furious that the system keeps letting this happen – not the victims Until we start talking about infrastructure, education, enforcement, and emergency response, these tragedies will keep happening. And blaming young people, especially when they’re the victims, just adds insult to injury. Let’s stop accepting this as normal. It’s not, you are just using cynicism to cover your own ignorance.

Firstly hardly anyone wants one. If you think that the US can just start making those imported products themselves, you have another thing coming - it will take decades to produce foctories that can make those things and they will still be more expensive...unless the business owners can get the government to introduce a minimum wage of $12 per day. H/D already have many parts made and sourced in Thailand (and Brazil) so they've taxed themselves on that. Tey also have assembly plants in Thailand it is moving production of its Pan America, Sportster, and Nightster bike models from the U.S. to Thailand.

It is a sad reflection on the Thai healthcare system that they can't treat the guy.

Trump isn't interested in the economics of tariffs - they are a political too. The World may be heading for a “trump slump” – but for Trump, it is a political measure to get businesses and countries to cow tow to him. It’s a power grab where everyone has to negotiate with Tump. He’s already said he’s going to try for a 3rd term – an impoverished world is easier for him to manipulate – or so he thinks However, he seems to have underestimated the ability of the the world to ignore him – the's terrified of big economic or poitical blocs, this is why he’s so keen to divide Europe – e.g. Brexit and Putin in Ukraine. People are coming round to new alignments – a Canada EU block, an Asean bloc and Idia, even China. America can’t make all the stuff currently made abroad – it would take decades to set up (Trump knows and doesn’t care) and then for his smaller market, ( he can't sell it abroad, it will be too dear. Also the economies of scale would set in and they will flounder. In the meantime other countries in the world are well placed to pick up the slck with US products out of the way. By the midterms the failure will be overly apparent and Trump will invent some “national crisis” followed by a state of emergency and eventually cancel elections at the end of his term.

If you want to know who doesn't understand road safety on this thread just count the "confused" emojis

This has to get the award for the most facile answer on the thread - which would you prefer this or your chin?

Apart from the fact the place is being burnt down! - https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250404-it-s-gone-conservation-science-in-thailand-s-burning-forest

Total misunderstanding of the situation - akin to a flat-earth interpretation....

That just re-enforces the observation - it's the Dunning Kruger effect.