What’s worse is how this will-he-won’t-he of making tariffs permanent and using them is causing businesses to also not import needed and desired products for fear that they could have a tariff removed at which point we have effectively purchased something for 25% more that we then can’t explain to the end consumer. People think it’s an on-off, but when products were purchased and brought in with a tariff that may no longer be effective it just makes for bad business.
As a Canadian, I’ve stopped importing saddles for bicycles from any US distributor. Even if the products aren’t made in the U.S., I’ve boycotted giving any single American 1 penny, even though I currently have no tariffs to pay on said products.
Trumps the world’s biggest fucking idiot, and not only is he hurting American citizens on the products coming into the country, he’s also hurting American citizens who no longer have external markets.
In turn, those companies I deal with out of Europe are now finding me ways to purchase their products directly from them instead, giving me even less reason to ever buy the products from an American ever again.
It’s a triple whammy. U.S. is loosing my money, Americans are loosing more of their money because they have to eat the tariff costs, and my money is now being diverted to Europe for the same product, without the American middle man and logistics.
All because a narcissist rapist Nazi and his African sugar daddy are robbing America into the ground.