The Foreign Trade Thread

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NorthDallas40 said:
Way to go Mexico! And Canada number 2. Alas China is 3rd which is about as high as it ever should be. I’d guess all things being equal our two biggest trade partners should be our common border countries.

Mexico is now America's number one trading partner
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Oh yeah, makes total ****ing economic sense that proximity would be the most important factor. A country with a population smaller than CA is our #2, LOL. I suppose you think Belize or Cuba should be #3?
 
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n_huffhines said:
Oh yeah, makes total ****ing economic sense that proximity would be the most important factor. A country with a population smaller than CA is our #2, LOL. I suppose you think Belize or Cuba should be #3?
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Actually what I meant was tying ourselves to our neighbors economically strengthens all of our bonds. Everybody has more flesh in the game. And spending that money in Mexico instead of China I’d guess also raises the Mexican citizens economic prospects at home and might make them want to stay instead of migrate up here. God you must be a miserable person to be around huff.

Are you not wanting them to want to stay home so they will feel compelled to come take care of your lawn and landscaping?
 
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n_huffhines said:
Oh yeah, makes total ****ing economic sense that proximity would be the most important factor. A country with a population smaller than CA is our #2, LOL. I suppose you think Belize or Cuba should be #3?
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Personally I'd like to see China last on our trade partner list. They have stolen our technology, they have ripped off any company that has done business with them and I think we need to wipe our hands of them and go elsewhere, like back to the US.
 
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VolStrom said:
Personally I'd like to see China last on our trade partner list. They have stolen our technology, they have ripped off any company that has done business with them and I think we need to wipe our hands of them and go elsewhere, like back to the US.
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They are cheaper with manufacturing a lot of stuff. Becoming protectionist or trying to shift to all US produced stuff = calamity.

Doesn't mean we don't set up a structure to guard IP, but needs to be done deliberately and smartly.

So pretty much the opposite of what we are doing now.
 
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lawgator1 said:
They are cheaper with manufacturing a lot of stuff. Becoming protectionist or trying to shift to all US produced stuff = calamity.

Doesn't mean we don't set up a structure to guard IP, but needs to be done deliberately and smartly.

So pretty much the opposite of what we are doing now.
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The gov cannot even protect warhead designs at Los Alamos.
 
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lawgator1 said:
They are cheaper with manufacturing a lot of stuff. Becoming protectionist or trying to shift to all US produced stuff = calamity.

Doesn't mean we don't set up a structure to guard IP, but needs to be done deliberately and smartly.

So pretty much the opposite of what we are doing now.
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Cheaper because they have a large population willing to work well below our minimum wages and their companies aren't being choked by regulations. They can freely destroy the environment, but as long as they are advancing their government's goals they continue.

It's funny to watch the Leftists fight Trump's efforts to reel in those dirty Communists while calling for more laws and regulations here. Actually it's not funny. It's tragic.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Do you think we have a handle on who all out there has nuclear weapons and who doesn't? Is the club larger than we know? I have my concerns.
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Me too with cash strapped Paki and NK in club and Iran on their way. Who knows what has been sold. I don't worry as much about the missile tipped, it is the rouge miniaturized weapons covertly transported into the nation. Radioactive monitors are used at POE, but just too much coastland to monitor IMO.
 
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VolStrom said:
Personally I'd like to see China last on our trade partner list. They have stolen our technology, they have ripped off any company that has done business with them and I think we need to wipe our hands of them and go elsewhere, like back to the US.
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Let’s see. Increasing trade with our regional partners to mutually increase all of our economic prowess and strengthen our bonds? Or aiding our number one political and military rival economically and propping up their growth while they steal our companies blind on technology? Tough decision... I’m gonna need to think on that some more 🤔
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
Should work great. Your own post indicates that export growth equaled import growth. The Chinese will have to feed a billion people plastic trinkets when their food reserves are depleted. Trump can wait it out. Even with the dumb lefties screaming and posting graphs.
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China has the better advantage and ability to wait Trump out. Xi Jinping will continue to do what he’s been doing and just trade more with Canada, the EU, and South American countries. XI is facing no political pressure from the politburo to make a deal with the U.S.
 
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Just to emphasize how ignorant and inconsistent Trump is on tariffs. He has always insisted that the cost of his tariffs on Chinese imports aren't being passed on to the American customer (both manufacturers and consumers) by way of increased prices ... but, he just stated that he was delaying the implementation of tariffs on certain Chinese imports, because of concerns over the Christmas shopping season.

"We're doing this for the Christmas shopping season. Just in case some of the tariffs would have an impact on U.S. customers." - Donald Trump (8/12/19)

Essentially acknowledging that tariffs, are in fact, passed on to consumers. Which is it? Tariffs are either passed on to customers or they're not. You can't have it both ways. Trump is intellectually dishonest... This is not skilled leadership. It's buffoonery.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Just to emphasize how ignorant and inconsistent Trump is on tariffs. He has always insisted that the cost of his tariffs on Chinese imports aren't being passed on to the American customer (both manufacturers and consumers) by way of increased prices ... but, he just stated that he was delaying the implementation of tariffs on certain Chinese imports, because of concerns over the Christmas shopping season.

"We're doing this for the Christmas shopping season. Just in case some of the tariffs would have an impact on U.S. customers." - Donald Trump (8/12/19)

Essentially acknowledging that tariffs, are in fact, passed on to consumers. Which is it? Tariffs are either passed on to customers or they're not. You can't have it both ways. Trump is intellectually dishonest... This is not skilled leadership. It's buffoonery.
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Where did your economics degree come from? When you deal with a country like China that decides on what its exchange rate with the US dollar is whenever it feels like it you theory goes right out the window. Trump is doing the right thing and those limp wristed girly men that proceeded him just did what most politicians do, kick the can down the road.
 
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VolStrom said:
Where did your economics degree come from? When you deal with a country like China that decides on what its exchange rate with the US dollar is whenever it feels like it you theory goes right out the window. Trump is doing the right thing and those limp wristed girly men that proceeded him just did what most politicians do, kick the can down the road.
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The University of Tennessee (Knoxville) Bachelor's of Business Administration ... Class of 1996 (the spring semester). I was a dual major in Finance and Economics. And it's not a theory. Tariffs on imports are passed on to the customer. That is a fact.
 
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