New International Trade Deals Ahead
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horseless carriage
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Strings? As in musical strings like violin and guitar? Will they make music? We shall see.
Aunt Bea
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It never hurts to ask! 
It’s beginning to sound like the underlying plan has always been to impose a 10% across the board tariff.
The outrageous and punitive tariffs imposed make the 10% across the board tariffs seem trivial/reasonable in comparison.
The drama/theater of negotiating trade deals appears to be a bit of a power play designed to intimidate our trading partners.
The art of the deal or smoke and mirrors.
It’s beginning to sound like the underlying plan has always been to impose a 10% across the board tariff.
The outrageous and punitive tariffs imposed make the 10% across the board tariffs seem trivial/reasonable in comparison.
The drama/theater of negotiating trade deals appears to be a bit of a power play designed to intimidate our trading partners.
The art of the deal or smoke and mirrors.
bobcat
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The thing with trade negotiations and agreements is that both sides meet, and each have their agendas. They agree to give up one thing to get another. Once a deal is reached, they each go back to their populus and claim victory, citing what they got, and not anything they had to agree with to get it.
We have had numerous trade deals with others in the past. Even when NAFTA was replaced with the USMCA as a trade deal with Canada and Mexico, it was acclaimed by Trump to be the best deal we've ever made when he signed it. Now he says "“I look at some of these agreements, I’d read them at night, and I’d say, ‘Who would ever sign a thing like this?’
Now we are having a trade war with them. So trade deals seem to always end up with finger pointing and accusations which ultimately lead to needing a new deal to replace the one that didn't work.
We have had numerous trade deals with others in the past. Even when NAFTA was replaced with the USMCA as a trade deal with Canada and Mexico, it was acclaimed by Trump to be the best deal we've ever made when he signed it. Now he says "“I look at some of these agreements, I’d read them at night, and I’d say, ‘Who would ever sign a thing like this?’
Now we are having a trade war with them. So trade deals seem to always end up with finger pointing and accusations which ultimately lead to needing a new deal to replace the one that didn't work.
dilettante
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Funny that now that their elections are over Canadian media have begun to talk about all of the tariff woes with China of late. Last I heard was 100% tariffs on Canola and related ag product imports coming into China.