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Tariffs Addendum

Apr 9, 2025
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In my article last Friday here about the very basic concepts of tariffs that the Trump/MAGOPs are ignoring and avoiding to explain, which are potentially disastrous, I left out one very important thing that's incredibly basic, too.  I've added it to the article as an "UPDATE," but thought I should note it here separately, as well.


UPDATE: When you add tariffs, it pushes your trading partners to look for other countries to trade with, most especially with agriculture.  So, a country that gets, for example, soybeans from the U.S. will likely now look elsewhere, and find a new trading partner for that.  And not only does this mean U.S. farmers are now stuck with produce they have no one to sell it to, but worse -- those partnerships risk never coming back.

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