Why have nations not come together to collectively shut down this whole tariff blackmail thing?

If everyone came together and signed up for a Chinese-style reciprocal tariff system then wouldn't this whole charade be over instantly?

I get some nations decided flattering Trump would work out (Vietnam? UK?) but even in the best case they still get tariffs.. just lower..

And how has the tariffs not completely tanked the stock market? Are markets assuming this is just temporary madness and it'll get rolled back?

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herbst 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Why do you think that is not the case? This is exactly what is happening, local example is Switzerland just signed a few free trade agreements.

The US dollar is down. The market is tanking, you just need to change your POV

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ragebol 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> Why have nations not come together ...

> If everyone came together

Finally winning that Nobel peace prize by unifying all the countries that are not the US would be amazing. Independent California, Texas and some other parts left sorta-kinda OK-ish after the new American civil war can then also join that alliance later, achieving world peace. Trump gets a posthumous Nobel peace prize and each year we all celebrate by gold plating a hamburger or something.

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contrarian1234 3 days ago | parent [-]

It's not super crazy for all nations to agree on something. For instance with Gaza everyone except for the US kinda agreed what's going on is no good. I think tariffs are arguably even easier to agree on. I don't think there's a single nation that's ambivalent about the US tariffs - or feel it's "maybe not so bad"

	▲	ragebol 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Agreeing something is bad is easy. Agreeing how go about fixing it is not easy.
	▲	raincole 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Not sure if you're joking. The Gaza thing is pure virtue signal and you know it. It's easy for countries to recognize Palestine because recognizing requires them to do nothing. Reciprocal tariffs against the US is the opposite of nothing.