• M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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    15 days ago

    Wonder if we will see an uptick in American made “koffee”?

    Something like the Ersatzkaffee from yesteryear. I mean they have the means of making caffeine so maybe it will be better?

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      14 days ago

      Black Rifle Koffee

      But (assuming a tarrif is something that can even pass) I imagine you’re going to see a swiss cheese of exemptions for favored countries. And these countries will become a back door for imports.

      Expect all of your coffee to be mysteriously harvested from Canada.

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        14 days ago

        Why do you think Canada would be spared tariffs?

        The intent is clearly to “fix” the USs trade deficit, so Canada being the biggest trade partner would be prime for these.

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          14 days ago

          I think any tariff that passes will have a swiss cheese of exemptions, because that’s just how the game is played in Congress.

          Lobby hard enough and you’ll get your country excused one way or another.

          Canada being the biggest trade partner would be prime for these.

          It would be prime for Canadian ports, and for a host of middle men who get to launder trade goods through a legal loophole.

          But that’s the real end game. Not domesticating manufacturing, but monopolizing channels for import/export.

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        14 days ago

        No don’t. Last mandate, Trump out tarrifs on Canadian steel, labeled it a strategic risk. Read somewhere that it boosted Russian owned us steel mills somehow. Canada is not getting any favors from that guy.