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Subject: Re: RE: Re: silca and Tariffs
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On 4/26/2025 1:15 PM, cyclintom wrote:
> On Sat Apr 26 13:41:16 2025 Catrike Ryder  wrote:
>> On 26 Apr 2025 09:14:12 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> <https://youtu.be/VKz5J5PPt-Q?si=ntPrbZPhCguTIuQM>
>>>
>>>
>>> Josh of Silca does a good job of explaining how the tariffs are effecting
>>> US companies certainly small ones, as ever it?s a moving target so may well
>>> change.
>>>
>>> Roger Merriman
>>
>> Many countries have tariffs on products from the USA. I see no reason
>> why the USA shouldn't have tariffs on their products. Maybe it will
>> bring manufacturing back, maybe not. The USA used to be a
>> manufacturing powerhouse and the bureaucratic jackasses let it slip
>> away. I don't know if Trump's plans can save the country, but it was
>> definatly going to hell with the same old, same old plans. At least
>> he's trying something new.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> According to the Democrats tarriffws are good for other countries but not for Ameriucs. It was perfectly OK for Clinton to apply larger tarrifs to foreign goods than TGrump is doing but perfectly awful for Trump to do titfor tat..
> 
> Time to put these people away.


You do not understand the problem.  Duty disparities are 
broad, deep, convoluted and often at multiple cross 
purposes. Oh, and they span every administration since 
nearly forever.

All that applies in spades to domestic micromanagement in 
targeted areas in this and every country, what with 
incentives (bribes) and disincentives (punishment) of a 
hundred flavors in thousand of iterations.

Small example-

United States of America is written in Japanese as Beikoku:

https://www.pngegg.com/en/png-fnrij

or "rice" + "country", as the reformation of language in the 
1860s was contemporaneous with plentiful and inexpensive 
American rice imports.

That was long, long ago, before nearly all Japanese 
administrations encouraged (subsidized)  extremely small 
inefficient farms. Along with the votes of farmers, whose 
numbers would decrease if farms were combined into larger 
fields. (this is happening in USA now, a continuance of a 
long trend, with more food production from less labor, but a 
side effect is decreased farmer votes. In some counties this 
has had major political effect.)


https://ap.fftc.org.tw/article/1327

And don't think we're better. Review USA sugar subsidies, 
price supports and duties which are no better than policies 
for rice in Japan.

Or the Harley Tax. Or the Chicken Tax.

I have been an importer of tubular bicycle tires across a 
half dozen entities, including Yellow Jersey, for over 50 
years. That's a product we have not made here in USA since 
before The Great Pacific War.  I pay import duty on each and 
every tire and the rate hasn't changed, up or down, in a 
half century.



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Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971