I wouldn’t take my kids to an event given the current climate in the US. Some bad stuff is about to go down somewhere, some Tiananmen Square shit.

I’d go myself.

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The pope is quite literally meant to be infallible.

He hid and ignored a paedophile friend. No more needs to be said (two more enablers downvoted. Stop lying to yourself)

The old pope? Wasn’t his right hand man a paedophile, and - as usual - he was moved around and saw no justice, under Francis’ watch? No such thing as a good pope. A cult of paedophile enablers, now and always.

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Trump isn’t even Christian. That much is obvious.

She’s a proper troglodyte. Almost identical to those clay caveman reconstructions you see.

Have these fuckwits read the bible? It’s chock-full of awful shit I wouldn’t want my kid to think about. Objecting for religious reasons is utter bullshit.

‘50+’ works as a name.

Cheese pears.

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I don’t see this supposed insult that got you worked up. The commenter stated that Trump supposedly has a department for this, but evidently no one knows what they are doing in said department, or indeed the administration as a whole on this issue.

And again, no one has to type words you want to hear. No one has to answer your specific questions.

The comment was simply saying (as far as I understood it) that the administration seems to have no idea what tariffs are nor how to use them to their benefit.

You were being the ass by somehow deciding your questions and views are the only important ones, and that any response must be on your terms or is worthy of scorn.

No one has to answer your questions. They can make whatever comments they want. No need to be an ass.

The tariffs are simply an import duty and they are calculated by HS code and product origin. They are paid by an import agent at the point of import before the goods are released.

In practice many items sent by courier will not get any duty historically. It depends what, if anything, customs decide to do. I don’t think the manpower exists to look at every package and charge accordingly.

They’ll just do it for randomly selected shipments, much like only a handful of shipping containers will get customs checks each day. It’s not practical to apply it across the board, so the tariffs will be based almost entirely on paperwork. There’s nothing at all stopping a seller from misdeclaring origin and value on paperwork to avoid duties, but why would they when the tariffs don’t have any bearing on the sellers?

There was a de minimis exception for anything under 800 USD for courier shipments, but numbnuts got rid of that too.

Republican.

I wish they’d just call it what it is - import duty.

I work in Chlor-Alkali Electrolysis and some of our biggest customers in the US run their electrolysers for water purification. I don’t know their market share but they purify the majority of US water between them.

They buy everything to maintain the electrolysers from us. Nuts, bolts, washers, every last component, as each component is tried and tested to work in our electrolysers through decades of design and testing.

One customer had an arrival today and suddenly had a bill for about 40k more than they were expecting due to the foolish tariffs and the changing of of product classifications on the USHTS. If they buy their spares elsewhere the warranty on their electrolyser becomes invalid, and - as I’ve seen time and again - cheaper, untested spares will usually result in a catastrophic failure somewhere down the line.

This is just one example, but old moron is messing with all kinds of key industries with his fiddling, and the only people paying are the importers and, eventually, the general public.

Our costs have not changed and we sell at the same price that we are contracted to, but now the companies that purify US water have hundreds of thousands of extra import duty each year if this comedy continues, and they can’t just pull out and start again as they have invested tens of millions and there is no suitable US company who can do what we do without decades of investment and research.

Maybe the Fantascist will magic this industry into existence, but it will cost at least twice what we can do it for when it is eventually ready. The companies will undoubtedly charge more for the products they make to compensate, and the US public will foot the bill.

These tariffs hurt the US the most.

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The Fantascist is a complete buffoon. Remember when the world used to laugh at George Bush and the silly shit he said? Bush seems like a genius compared to old shitty pants.

I’d shorten that to ‘we need to ban Elon’