Remember when President Trump established the “External Revenue Service?” … It’s all connected and sequential.
Almost everyone will miss, in part because outcomes appear in a sequence that few care to follow, but buried in the Trump tariff Executive Order {SEE HERE} you will discover something. As the unofficial Deep State strategist, and the self-appointed misfit explainer of stuff, lol, we will explain:
[Sec 2, SubSection (h)]: Sec. 2. (a) All articles that are products of Canada as defined by the Federal Register notice described in subsection (e) of this section (Federal Register notice), and except for those products described in subsection (b) of this section, shall be, consistent with law, subject to an additional 25 percent ad valorem rate of duty. Such rate of duty shall apply with respect to goods entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern time on February 4, 2025, except that goods entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, after such time that were loaded onto a vessel at the port of loading or in transit on the final mode of transport prior to entry into the United States before 12:01 a.m. eastern time on February 1, 2025, shall not be subject to such additional duty, only if the importer certifies to CBP as specified in the Federal Register notice.
[…] (h) For avoidance of doubt, duty-free de minimis treatment under 19 U.S.C. 1321 shall not be available for the articles described in subsection (a) and subsection (b) of this section. {link}
So, Canada and Mexico get 25% tariffs, but China only 10%. Why? The secret is in that subsection “(h)” when it talks about de minimis treatment. Essentially, what President Trump is doing is levying a much more massive import tax, and possible confiscation impact on the core source of fentanyl (and other illegal) substances.
Approximately a billion packages are estimated to enter the USA under the cover of the de minimis exemption. This is where the enforcement mechanism of the “External Revenue Service” combines with the tariff approach and the “state of emergency.” President Trump imposed the tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a nearly 50-year law that gives the president sweeping power to impose sanctions after declaring an emergency.
Now the billion packages, mostly from China, Mexico and Canada are going to be subjected to review and interception.
The de minimis loophole comes from back in the 1930s. The idea back then was, say you went on a vacation to Paris, you shouldn’t have to file customs paperwork or pay taxes if you decided to ship some little Eiffel Tower statues to your friends back home.
Congress in 2015 then raised the de minimis threshold from $200 to $800. However, the e-commerce world exploded, and Chinese companies began using the de minimis loophole to ship cheap goods (ex. Temu and Shein) into the USA direct to consumers without paying any customs duty.
It was reported last year that the U.S. was on track to receive a billion packages through the de minimis loophole that aren’t taxed and don’t have customs slips saying what they are. Making matters worse, illegal items are slipping through the cracks, including, knockoffs, unsafe items and even chemicals used to make fentanyl. The worst abuser that exploits this de minimis loophole is, by far, China.
President Trump can require a customs and duty declaration stating what is in every package and subsequently collect tariffs and duties.
Put it all together and President Trump is executing an Emergency Act executive order, plus the imposition of a tariff review, and simultaneous interception of de minimis packages previously unchecked as the enforcement mechanism. All executed by the External Revenue Service.
President Trump has got them surrounded, and the scope of it has the media so overwhelmed they cannot quite put it together.
Almost too much winning….
…. Almost!
(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump’s new trade levies against China, Canada and Mexico include a broadside against e-commerce, with apparent plans to extinguish a long-held tariff exemption for packages worth less than $800.
Trump’s executive orders directing 25% levies on Canada and Mexico — plus a 10% duty on China — specify that the “de minimis” exemption for small packages no longer applies. Under the exemption, products below that dollar amount are able to enter the US without tariffs — a boon for China’s e-commerce retailers who ship often cheaper wares directly to consumers in the US.
The full scope of the de minimis changes — whether they apply just to the new tariffs issued Saturday or to older existing trade levies — was not clear. A White House spokesman did not respond to questions about its reach.
However, trade lawyers said Trump’s language cracking down on the de minimis exemption could apply broadly, even to existing duties against China, Canada and Mexico.
Regardless, the impact of the change threatens to fall most squarely on China, affecting retailers including Alibaba, JD.com Inc., PDD Holdings Inc.’s Temu and fashion-focused Shein. American shoppers and companies imported about $48 billion worth of shipments from the world under that loophole in the first nine months of last year, according to US Customs and Border Protection estimates. (read more)
To think a simple paraphrasing of this article by Sundance,onthe 6pm “news”, is all that is needed to explain to the la la land inhabitants they reach. It was tragic – comedy to listen to the “news” yesterday and last night as all the usual suspect “news readers – on air” and the “self styled experts” were warning HIGHER PRICES coming tomorrow … meanwhile at the gas pump and grocery store check out counter we still pay for JoeBama’s 100% inflation. Also, those news stories “READ by the TALKING HEADS” left off the reason for the tariffs as well.
By the way, in line with this article one of the “experts interviewed” said prescription drug prices are going up because of this. Canada, the Philippines and China inc. are the largest producers and exporters of knock off drugs and generics that include fentanyl and the new killer on the block ketamine.
The un-inspected packages are the primary means for delivery of the drugs…next logical question and place for investigators to look … think ALL those “low priced mail” delivery drug plans we have here in the US that use Amazon, Alibaba, USPS, Fed Ex, UPS, et al on the end of the pipeline here in the US un-inspected … especially MEDICARE and MEDICAID plans …. Canada, China and others are just the source end that puts stuff in the hands of INTERNATIONAL US Shippers and DRUG PLAN AGENTS here in the US …. think of what DOGE found yesterday at the US TREASURY Department where MEDICARE and MEDICAID Expenses were BLINDLY APPROVED by the Under Secretary who JUST RESIGNED.
There are even more dots to connect on this topic that connect to this excellent foundation discussed by Sundance.
Again. Which country had the $800 de minimus import law on its books for decades. Exploited eagerly by the Chinese Government.
Yes. The same country that could have simply started inspecting packages, then closing 100% of imported packages from any country that was abusing the USA.
You fail to see what is in front of your eyes. The USA is infiltrated with Foreign Agents and Politicians-on-the-take. Please look at the Republican Senators.
Your last President made Millions while selling out his Country ($ Trillions).
I fail at nothing while you get an F- for not reading what I wrote … recognizing the source of the problem. Reading … you know??? .. the art of actually looking at and comprehending what is written.
Maybe this helps. “I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant” Alan Greenspan
In addition to the de minimus exceptions, China also exploits their “Developing Country” exception in the international postal treaty. Chinese shippers pay dirt-cheap rates and the USPS gets stuck paying to deliver all those packages with very little reimbursement from China.
As a small business owner…this is what drives me crazy. Chinese businesses get shipping rates from China to the US far cheaper than I receive. And very few people seem to know this so thank you for putting it out there
I do a lot of business online including selling on platforms like Etsy, Ebay, etc. It costs me around $4.00+ to ship a small item that weighs less than 5 oz. to someplace in NY or the USA.
Yet somehow Ali Express, Temu, etc. can send their stuff to us FOR FREE or SUPER CHEAP due to the old Terminal Dues system which was an international postal agreement.
Now THAT is something that needs to be reformed to help small American online sellers.
The USPS determines rates based on what law or agreement? Oh, that’s right: “Postal rates on international mail is set by the Universal Postal Union.”
EXACTLY!
PDJT needs to pull most favored nation status and any other special considerations for Cheena ASAP. We got the popcorn.
Good manifesting!
Do not be surprised if the next evening’s news says (as well as press conference questions asked) … grandma’s and baby Lilly’s drugs are NOT being delivered because of the tariff’s … as these are the covers used to deliver the killer drugs and chemicals…under the “mail order cheap drug plans”.
Pfizer used to have a facility in Ann Arbor right next to UoM property. It closed down about a decade ago when manufacturing shifted to China. It’s not that hard to make stuff here. We used to do it.
The expensive ‘regulations’ Environmental,Quality Control, etc was done to purposefully drive out American manufacturing. Council On Foreign Relations ‘made’ member Bush Sr’s “New World Order”. China/Asia and the demolition of America. That’s what he was really telling the world to those with eyes that see and ears that hear.
I think Puerto Rico was used to manufacture drugs also. If this was renewed it would be a great boon to the economy of the region and would make us less vulnerable to China or other hostile countries.
I believe that this is the truth also. Removing these companies from Puerto Rico was devastating to the economy there.
MAHA – getting people off pHARMaceutical drugs…
“would be a great boon to the economy of the region and would make us less vulnerable to China or other hostile countries.”
just sayin’.
Is the big plant in Kalamazoo still operating?
Yes.
Many Americans buy Canadian generic prescription drugs because they are less expensive. They not only do this because of the lower price, but because they have poor, or no insurance coverage. I would do the same to save money.
Canadian drugs or Canadian Chinese drugs?
I live in NorCal and it is almost impossible to get a primary care doctor here. One, the libs have made it difficult for a private practice doctor to make a living so they all go work for Kaiser or Sutter or Providence. Their roster is filled quickly and the waiting list to get primary care can be 8 months. Hence, Urgent Care and Emergency Room visits are the only alternative.
There are also Clinics you can go to get medical help but you see a doctor on site, usually only once and someone new next time. So the follow up care is sketchy.
A very good, impossibly busy doctor friend blames this structure on Obamacare.
Probably a lot of ‘foreign born or derived doctors as well’.
Those are Chinese drugs. The people that brought you Covid 19.
If it wasn’t for those low priced mail drug delivery plans from India the deep state would have succeeded in their Covid poison plan. Those plans allowed US citizens to circumvent the CDC Nazis, their doctors, hospitals and local pharmacies, who were not allowing patients to get ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine which have proven to be better treatments for Covid than the Pfizer/Moderna/J&J shots. Very little if any fentanyl comes through the mail. China sends the chemicals to Mexico, Mexico makes the fentanyl and disguises it as regular medicine via pill stamp machines, then uses mules to send it across the border. Users get it from street dealers the mail is rarely used.
Prescription drugs are expensive and going up in the US due to government control. In the rest of western civilization countries like Canada, Europe, Australia et al have strict control on drug prices because of government control over healthcare. The US is the one market where drug prices are negotiated between the drug company and pharmacy benefit mangers hired buy pharmacies and insurance companies, not government. They are helped by the FDA oversight in that the FDA is basically owned by Big Pharma.
Example: Ozempic was initially approved to help people who have Type II diabetes. It was found to be a weight loss drug. So Novo Nordsk, the makers of Ozempic, wants the FDA to approve Ozempic for weight loss. The drug costs $ 1,500. This amount, minus a co-pay, will be paid by our government through Medicare and Medicaid, your Obamacare policy or employer’s health plan. Novo Nordsk is a Danish company and due to the expected approval of Ozempic it has become the most valuable company in Europe. But in Denmark, where Ozempic is made, they recommend diet and exercise they do not recommend Ozempic for weight loss. Due to the incestuous relationship between Big Pharma, the FDA, The CDC and the medical community the US is where drug companies make their money, at the US taxpayers expense. We are basically supporting the rest of the world’s socialist drug programs. Ozempic is an example that can be applied to many other nmae brand medicines.
The treasury blindly approving payments made it easy for terrorists and money to be laundered by cartels. Example: Juanita in Texas gets money owed to the CJNG cartel and sends it to Mexico via a wired remittance. Josefina in Jalisco goes to the local bank where the remittance was sent, picks up the money and takes it to the CJNG money man in Jalisco. Josefina gets a fee for her service and the cartel has the money disguised as a remittance between Mexican citizens. This is done thousands of times and should raise a red flag but the Treasury’s actions let it happen.
Most of the generic drugs consumed in the U.S. come from India, Israel and parts of Europe. China is the lead supplier of key starting materials used to mix drugs in labs in India that eventually get shipped to the U.S. either as finished product, or sent to U.S. subsidiaries and commercial partners who repackage the drugs, sometimes turning the ingredients into pills and tablets, for example.
EXCELLENT POST! SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING FOR EVERYONE WHO NEEDS THESE DRUGS.
May I ask, are the ivermectin and HCQ sold over the phone by Reliable Rx in India the real thing?
One the major contributing factors to lower drug prices outside the USA is because of the different laws in those countries regarding lawsuits. The USA needs tort reform and then you would see lower prices.
Another way to reduce the cost would be to ban all Pharma adds on TV like the old days. Pharma adds are crack to TV network budgets and forces the TV networks to shade their coverage on drugs and diseases like Covid-19.
TV News-readers are not there to inform. They are sent out by their networks to sell a particular narrative. The network executives, corporate ownership, and the major sponsors decide what the narrative will be. Then they fit the story coverage around that narrative. (Note: big Pharma is their biggest ad buyer, bigger than cars, junk-food, or insurance. Big Pharma pays to get narrative control more than to sell expensive drugs for rare conditions.)
The Biden regime injected more regime-supporting narrative than ever before.
Celebrity news-readers can layer on their own personal biases if those biases do not conflict with the official narratives. If the news-reader’s overt biases conflict with the narrative they won’t keep their job for very long.
Media will omit or minimize any information that undermines their narrative.
The rise of 24×7 internet made the situation much worse. Legacy media now must assume their audience already heard the basics from the internet. The networks are engaged in shaping and coloring those initial impressions to align to the official narrative.
So they are presenting a lot of things – honest, useful, insightful news is rarely part of the mix.
Tragic-comedy is what it is if you are already aware of the information they are hyping and what they are hiding. Once you see the strings in the puppet show you can never un-see them.
Yeah, the msm is The Truman Show, and its viewers are Truman.
As mentioned in another comment… the mail branch at CBP is going to be very busy!!
The way I see it, if tariffs on Chinese/Canadian/Mexican products raise the price of those goods here in the US, then I have a pretty simple choice… pay the higher prices, or don’t buy them.
Someone much smarter than me (not a Keynesian) once said, “The cure for high prices is high prices.”
It takes time… so the naysayers should take THEIR time and think about it.
Well, let’s make this an amicable divorce.
Most Canadian exports to the USA, are energy and other raw materials for keeping the U.S. economy going, including the 4.5 million barrels per day of oil.
I, for one, am happy to tighten my belt and live with less.
The US can and was replacing every thing we received from Canada and Mexico before 2020. So, you can save cutting an extra notch in your belt.
The Canadian govt, like our previous one, is run by obnoxious adolescents, and their people deserve better. Hopefully Pierre Poilievre or similar can get control and work out mutually beneficial agreements with Team Trump.
Yes, Canada exports energy products like hydro power from Quebec for the Eastern seaboard, the LNG from Alberta, the crude oil from Saskatchewan and Alberta, lumber, and assorted raw materials especially from Ontario and Quebec.
Yup, the divorce is going to be interesting.
Bring back the timber industry. Didn’t cheap lumber from Canada essentially destroy the timber
industry in the US back around 1997? YTG is VERY interested in this particular topic. The local
powers that be made big, untraceable $$$$ off about 600 acres of old growth timber, starting
back when.
The EPA destroyed the timber industry long before that. Think the 70’s.
That’s all that you need to know. Their tariffs on OUR exports will do ZIP!
President Donald J Trump holds the winning hand at the Globalist card game and he is going to win with it unlike the Council On Foreign Relations owned traitors the Bushes,Clinton,Obama, & Weekend At Bernie’s walking stiff Biden.
Great graphic.
The next biggest economy on earth is China which is barely more than half the size of the US.
So is the masonic eye for or against us?
Also most of the dollar value of goods the US imports from Canada and Mexico are from commodities imported purely for cost reasons. We could produce them in the US but choose not to because it is cheaper to import. A tariff changes that equation.
Most of what they buy from the US is tech or proprietary stuff they must import because it cannot be made by those countries. Often there are no equivalent substitutes available from other sources. Tariffs will not change that fact.
There may be disruption in the short term. But the US can adjust. Mexico and Canada will have a harder time.
Yeah? Where are the Chinese stats? Tariffs work on countries we have under our thumb, but are likely to really backfire with China or BRICS nations. And likely drive Mexico into BRICS.
We import about $537 Billion from China in 2023
We export about $145 Billion to China in 2023
The spying on US citizens, Fentanyl supplying, and theft of manufacturing secrets is just an extra feature we get for FREE. Not to mention the military age illegal men, the purchase of farm land, the purchase of land near military bases, and the purchase of SmithField Foods.
I forgot we also got the Wuhan Flu shipped in especially for us in 2020. Again that was at no cost to us. I hope President Trump gets a couple of Trillion for that episode of biological warfare. And if Fauci and his buddy Collins? are involved they need to see justice served.
Always note when “Free Trade” treason started, and expanded. Coincide that with the years on the chart.”Liars figure, figures don’t lie”
Trade in Goods with China
https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#1994
I want to know if the destruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge was a rehearsal by the CCP for blockage of the Panama Canal.
All that has to be done in the Canal, to slow things…is stop the usual dredging maintenance and not deal with the land slides…unfortunately is is “dry season” down there right now…and the rainy season rains are needed to cause the mudslides.
Of course, “The Bridge of the Americas” tumbling down is a bigger attention getter.
The Green Is the new Red energy wind farms in Texas were I believe going to be run by Chinese companies until enough Heritage American patriots found out and exposed it.
The Made-in-China Bay Bridge Continues to Cost California
https://www.americanmanufacturing.org/blog/the-made-in-china-bay-bridge-continues-to-cost-california/
So now that there is a required declaration on all small packages AND a dedicated group (external revenue service) looking at these small packages, one would think they will be able to follow possible trails of bad chemicals/ingrediants used to make illegal drugs, thus allowing Kash’s Good Guy Feds, to uncover and go after these bad guys, right?
Bingo.
“… As the unofficial Deep State strategist, and the self-appointed misfit explainer of stuff,..”
Most excellent! 😉
Making America Wealthy
A brief history on William McKinley, the “Napoleon of Protection”
https://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/p/making-america-wealthy-brief-history-on.html
“A tariff which protects American labor and industry and provides ample revenues has been written in public law. We have lower interest and higher wages; more money and fewer mortgages. The world’s markets have been opened to American products, which go now where they have never gone before. We have passed from a bond-issuing to a bond-paying Nation; from a Nation of borrowers to a Nation of lenders; from a deficiency in revenue to a surplus; from fear to confidence; from enforced idleness to profitable employment. The public faith has been upheld; public order has been maintained. We have prosperity at home and prestige abroad.” William McKinley
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-accepting-the-republican-presidential-nomination-1
Yet it was AMERICAN Politicians that created today’s China, including the $800 de minimus exemptions that have been in place for several decades.
You know all their names, and all the lucre they have personally extorted by destroying the foundation of the USA.
Mexico and China are joined at the hip. Canada is going to throw Trudeau out (dead man walking since the Truckers/Covid/War Measures Act (J6) ), regardless of Trump’s shotgun approach.
Last credible numbers I looked at showed 99% of Fentanyl coming into the USA was through Mexico.
Try reading again … there is no way to know any percentages because the “packages” involved are NOT INSPECTED.
Try reading again … because the trends are reversing even per the few packages that re caught, with CANADIAN Sources INCREASING.
Try reading again … the content of this site actually acknowledges and exposes the issues and the source of the issues.
Yep … it’s called reading .. the art of comprehending the written word.
If this were true, then why would Trump impose the 25 percent on Canada?
Because it isn’t true.
Canada also allows China to import steel, aluminum and many other products cheaply through their country into the US daily. It’s a major problem.
A $200 billion yearly trade deficit with Canada? How about that for an answer? We’re protecting them for nothing? How about that answer as well?
Oh I agree even if I don’t think its quite that high.
The other reason is the amount of money we provide in defense spending to protect Canada.
I was specifically talking about the fentanyl problem.
Nope. No major problem there. We don’t need to import steel and aluminum from China and then send it to the US, We make enough of both ourselves to meet the demand from the US.
But it is a problem and they are doing it. Trump called them out for it in his first administration.
Maybe we will just bill you for our defense spending alone.
There’s no evidence that Canada is simply re-exporting Chinese aluminum to the USA. In fact, Canada has recently taken steps to limit Chinese aluminum imports.
Please add it up and tell us EXACTLY how much you spend protecting us
I’m sure you don’t want to know since you are protected under our defense umbrella.
Canada still spends less than the required NATO expectation of two percent GDP.
So does America who spends 1.8 %.
Please re-read this portion of the relevant executive order.
“Despite a North American dialogue on the public health impacts of illicit drugs since 2016, Canadian officials have acknowledged that the problem has only grown. And while U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) within the Department of Homeland Security seized, comparatively, much less fentanyl from Canada than from Mexico last year, fentanyl is so potent that even a very small parcel of the drug can cause many deaths and destruction to America families. In fact, the amount of fentanyl that crossed the northern border last year could kill 9.5 million Americans.”
Interesting
This is another reason I wish Sundance would consider doing his own podcast on Rumble.
This is the deep dive, granular stuff the world needs to hear.
Then imagine once he is established, he invites PT on his podcast for a full hour.
He’s best where he is I think, Bogeyfree. Unrecognized and free to wander in the dark and deep labyrinthine tunnels of corruption and perfidy…making notes and taking names. Then reporting back to headquarters.
That would be us…
And it is to be hoped those much higher up.
There is a lot to be said for anonymity 😎
Morning dear Bet.
Be sure and read my OT posts today. I stopped by and said Hi to you all there.
Morning, dear friend ☕💕Absoluutely will!
Very good use of words in your statement!
Just wondering, what percent of the porch pirate phenomenon is associated to drug shipments?
Order drugs to random address, concealing recipients then ambush the package on arrival?
Actually it happens a lot. Vacant addresses, especially newly vacant addresses and a lot of part-time postal carriers that are not familiar with routes. Carriers are instructed to leave parcels and not return them to their stations. People wait nearby for the deliveries and snatch them up as soon as they are delivered.
Customs enforcement and USPS Postal Inspectors ought to hook up with Jay Valentine’s fractal address matching technology. That could flag up packages going to vacant addresses.
…if they wanted, unfortunately too many don’t care. Management does not want anything to disrupt their bonuses. Carriers are told ‘you don’t see anything, you don’t hear anything, and you don’t say anything’, just deliver the mail and be back in eight hours.
Sundance, my question for you would be, why would congress in 2015 raise the threshold from $200 to $800 allowing more exploiting of this loophole.
Who was President in 2015? Why did Congress never question anything he did?
Some of the stuff is just fudge – probably for mid range electronics, parts, etc. Why Congress doesn’t link these statutory amount to inflation like income taxes, I don’t know.
” As the unofficial Deep State strategist…”
Oh, no, Sundance, you’re it.
I pose this question:
“To put the tariffs in place, Trump in his executive action declared a national economic emergency, invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, known as “IEEPA,”
Should this “declaring an emergency” not be brought before congress or at least within a set timeframe brought before congress?
For one person to declare a national emergency is not really checks and balances.
If no congress, this would allow the executive branch to rule by decree (compare to: “emergency” example for the people falling over eachother when Trudeau declared an “emergency” to get rid of the Trucker protest.. THEN it was a problem)
Point in case: If declaring emergencies is the way to bypass (trade) law or any law then we can expect to see a whole leot more one sided “emergencies”
Beginning to sound like “Menendez”?
Why is that, because only a fraud and a conman would pose a question about ruling by decree?
When would congress weigh in on matters of international trade is the question.
Stay away from Temu and SHEIN. It’s all crap, all the time. Now we know they’re skipping the tariffs by sending crap directly to crap consumers.
How many Chinese packages does Amazon receive?
President Donald J Trump has been more than correct on this issue and I am deeply grateful for his rectifying it. I posted how Council On Foreign Relations Bush Sr’s Free Trade treasonous “Andean Act” destroyed the NJ Rose industry that was pretty close to PDJT’s Bedminister NJ home. I’m sure our President knew people who suffered because of it.
Manufacture This
The blog of the Alliance for American Manufacturing
https://www.americanmanufacturing.org/blog/
God Bless Pat Buchanan – may his spirit and insight inspire us!
They probly woulda shot him, too.
Ooops! shoula been a reply to Border Bob below.
Pat Buchanan. A smart, perceptive man, with a real flair for words. Not perfect (as truefor all of us), but someone who was truly America First.
Imagine – imagine! If he HAD ever become president?????
I think of that often. Wish the President could find a suitable spot for him in the government. He deserves it and would be a great addition.
Ty Joan, I heard through the grapevine he is not well. You know he was one of PDJT’s biggest supporters all along. In case you missed this.
Honor Patrick J. Buchanan with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
The TAC co-founder made the world we’re living in.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/honor-patrick-j-buchanan-with-the-presidential-medal-of-freedom/
They probly woulda shot him, too.
Used to love watching “Cross Fire” with him and lib puss. Back in the day when I watched CNN.
Better buy your cheap Chinese crap now before it’s too late.
Someone else here mentioned the fact that the biggest exporters of cheap stuff to the U.S. are using warehouses in non-tariffed countries. If true, do goods from those warehouses (many/most sourced and produced in China) avoid the de minimus tariffs?
For 100 years, the USA has very simply been a sucker.
“the self-appointed misfit explainer of stuff”
There is nothing wrong with being a misfit. I have been a misfit all of my life in more ways than one.
You just have to embrace it and make it your strong suite.
Need visible punishment.
Permanent.
Sundance explained this in a way that even a caveman could understand it!
Is there a way to discern between companies/manuacturers and actual gifts from family/friends/residences? Because sending gifts is a real thing and I do believe it should be duty free (Taxed Enough Already!! -original member).
The de minimus made sense for that, for us little people.
Can’t the origin be checked authenticated and a limit to, say, 5 duty free gift shipments a year? (Mandatorily exrayed, scaned, dog sniffed, patted down and subject to strip search–.Of course.)
And [sarc] I love new government, new laws and new taxes to screw “The Man” [/sarc].
But I FEEL [no one cares about my feelings, I know] that policy-wise, I would have appreciated that at the same time as unveiling the new governing and taxing department that WILL affect MY pocketbook, Trump should have thrown a bone to with some tax cuts, perhaps the no more tax on tips, but more creative and effectual to lift our tax burden.
Isn’t the Trump Agenda to ELIMINATE Regulatory loopholes & exceptions?
Tax Cuts require Congressional action … as early as April, according to the Trump Team.
IS trumps agenda to elimate regulatory loopholes and exceptions [exemptions?]? I’m unconvinced.
Further, Eliminating loopholes is not important to me. Elimating regulation/government authority over my life is.
I don’t care about sticking it to “the man” and taking away loopholes, it almost always ends up backfiring and costing the little guy.
Though, I do recognize our trade imbalance and international concerns. So I am willing to come to the table to listen over loopholes and regulation in this category.
So this new regulating authority will elimate a regulatory loophole I occasionally enjoy(my baby gifts and Christmas goodies from international friends and family, and gifts I bring home or send out while visiting said friends and family).
Eliminating regulation, government scope and regulating authority is the opposite of what this new department does.
And they didn’t do anything to directly benefit the middle class taxpayer to balance or contrast this new tax burden.
The middle class taxpayer will be paying these duties on family gifts and cheap crap from dirty China and their slave labor.
In time perhaps my goods will be made in American and perhaps I’ll be able to afford them, no promises have been made to either effect, though my kids may have an opportunity to manufacure them. Yay.
That said. Things have been terrible under past presidents. I have been reasonably convinced by the available arguments that there is a trade problem and an intenationally fueled drug problem.
The federal government is the body to address these problems. And I have a certain amount of trust in the current administration to address it. I’m not imagining this plan will be painless for the little people, but I think it could work to address the said trade/drug problem.
But we still have an over-taxed and over-regulated problem that should be addressed at the same time as a contrast. Maybe shut down a different department if taxing has to be addressed by Congress.
Isn’t he going to eliminate income tax for us peasants?
Yes – because duty free is largely in physical stores, and the loophole has been exploited on websites like temu.
Dumb bastards gave stable genius Trump a 4 year timeout thinking he would just quit and give up.
I just can’t take anymore of this winning.
Norway tariffs:
Cheese: 277%
Beef: 344%
Lamb: 429%
Milk: 443%
Potatoes: 191%
Beets: 158%
Roses: 249%
Baker’s yeast: 21%
Casein-based glue: 21.2%
Women’s tops: 10.7%
Message to EU:
We’ve got come CATCHING UP to do and there’s FAR-FAR MORE to FOLLOW!
As a side note, these loopholes have allowed Chinese sellers to overrun eBay rendering it virtually useless for people who make any kind of side hustle or full-time income previously from their reselling activities.
Chinese sellers are also all over Amazon making it difficult on the consumer to identify whether the item they’re purchasing is local, or at least from the US.. or from overseas.
No wonder the Silk Road guy was pardoned –
He was a piker compared to today’s “operators!”
The US needs to tax remittances, specifically to Mexico and India. We need to hit them on all fronts.
The re-shoring in some sectors will be like turning a super tanker. The freightliner truck plants daimler moved down to mexico cost a billion dollars a couple decades ago and took years of planning and building.
The bigs corps like that have to be deciding to choose to wait Trump out or not. But fours years of crappy budget cycle results is a long time for stockholders.
Must be many unhappy and angry dems and repubs who’ve taken money from these countries to defend their trading practices.
“Tariffs Not Taxes”!
Trump Should Go Big on Tariffs
It’s past time to cut off those taking advantage of the American economy.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-should-go-big-on-tariffs/
Should be pretty easy to find 85,000 armed agents for the External Revenue Service. But then again, maybe only a handful once the DEI hires are filtered out.
Shouldn’t all those 82,000 new IRS agents have been hired and trained already? Do we know if this was real or another money laundering scam?
But WalMart stock…
Thank you for this wonderful, clarifying explanation, Sundance.
Godspeed, sir!
Clinton bails out Mexico, Jan. 31, 1995
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/31/this-day-in-politics-jan-31-1995-1129932
(Council On Foreign Relations member) “Clinton issued the loan through the Federal Reserve’s Exchange Stabilization Fund, marking the first time the fund had been used to help stabilize a foreign currency. In justifying his action, Clinton warned that an insolvent Mexico could lead to an influx of illegal immigration into the United States, threatening American jobs and undermining border security.”
“Furthermore, he predicted that, unless he acted, American exports to Mexico would dwindle, disrupting the U.S. economy.”
Clinton also told us NAFTA would stop immigration. He lied allot didn’t he? And all his lies were CFR approved with the blessings of the Mockingbird Fake News who enhanced the lies as ordered.
Atta boy, sir!
That’s MY President!
Thought I was having deja vu….only to realize I had read this on Zerohedge. lol!