• llothar@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    This just proves that US tariff policies are unstable.

    Why would any company move production to US based on tariff then? Imagine spending money to move a factory from China to America, and the next month tariffs flip flop and your competitor laughs at you all the way to the back counting earnings from their Chinese imports.

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      3 days ago

      Dems just need to say that their candidates will drop all new tariffs like this. Which is goofy (repubs pro-tariff, dems anti), but it incentivizes them to not go along with any of this, medium/long term

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        Whatever Democrats say, it will just contribute to uncertainty which is what the comment you replied to was all about.