▲ | 8note 16 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I doubt it. It's much easier to either launder or manufacture the goods in a third country, that benefits from most of the same incentives that made Chinese manufacturing go through the roof. Americans will be buying Chinese goods with "made in Vietnam" or "made in Mexico" stamped on it. The American profit will be in setting up those laundering schemes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | seanmcdirmid 15 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
If the Trump tariffs are based on country of final assembly, then yes, final assembly will just occur somewhere else, but it will take a couple of years to setup, and the inflation shock by that time will have done a lot of damage to the economy (recession likely, depression possible). It makes sense that it took Trump forever to find a treasury secretary willing to go along with this. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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