Originally Posted by
Asturias56
No I'm not upset - we all know that tons of stuff goes backwards and forwards - especially via Dubai and India. The question by Ninthace was why did the US govt not apply serious tariffs to the empires of evil but only to their friends. any suggestions?
I am not Donald J Trump, so don't ask me. You are free to ask him.
None of this tariff war makes any sense to me beyond shaking things up on purpose to see who will make a new deal and who won't.
I saw a news tidbit that van der Leyden was offering a 10% reciprocal deal. No idea if that will work or not, but Marc Cuban has commented favorably upon it. (FWIW).
Any economic deal made
with Iran is lost in the noise (due to orders of magnitude) until normal relations are restored with them.
The Ayatollahs flat out refuse to restore normal relations with us. They refuse direct talks. That may change some day, but it's been that way for a long time.
Any deal made with China will have big impacts on both sides of the Pacific.
What I don't like is the prospect for no deal being made with China.