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 Such rate of duty shall apply with respect to goods entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern time on February 4, 2025, except that goods entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, after such time that were loaded onto a vessel at the port of loading or in transit on the final mode of transport prior to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)
Sometimes it feels like SD is the only person that actually sees what Trump is really doing. Media is shrieking “REEEEEE” and everyone else is just waiting to see how the countries respond like watching the ball bounce back and forth during a tennis match.
Thanks for being our Splainer-n-Chief. Sundance.
Yes absolutely. Sundance is most definitely also tuned into the complex and mercurial psyche of PDJT.
I’ve never seen him as mercurial. Read his books. He is very deliberate and steady. I think that mercurial stuff is Democrat slur.
DJT’s NOT mercurial “Read his books”.
100% agree!!! And yes, I did ” read his books”.
Fwiw, in the 80’s, when he wasnt yet holding his cards so close to his chest, he talked with interviewers about the effort it took to learn how to convincingly hide his intelligence and lethality by adopting a disarming public persona.
He also explained why it was absolutely worth that effort.
Common adjectives used to describe him such as impulsive, narcissistic, susceptible to flattery and easily manipulated are projection or reality disconnected parroting of some trusted screen world sources.
Fortunately, these false beliefs about who he is, whether held by foes or friendlies, only make it easier for him to succeed.
The difference?
Foes rEEEeee.
Friendlies rejoice….
thank God that he’s so lucky
and/or are relieved that he’s FINALLY learned to take the sage advice of trusted advisors rather than continuing to be so “mercurial”.
Lmao.
not Lucky at all GOD CHOSE HIM the difference between night and day dear 3rd John 2.
Going back to 1980s clips and columns, Trump was creating his ‘brand ’. How did a Queens RE developer become known to Lyons Ave Houston Laborers Union International bricklayers in 1970s when I worked construction? He was a flamboyant ladies man – beautiful babes, fur coats, RollsRoyce, chauffeur, fight promoters – Don King, football Leagues, Le Club w atty Roy Cohn, Gloria Vanderbilt jeans, gambling and Boxing at HIS Casino in NJ…. Manhattan snobs – like those stereotype (and real) loudmouth NYers Bella Abzug, Hizzoner, Wall Streeters, etc, etc, KNOW that PDJT45 AND PDJT47! was a Queens climber, but really he was shrewd and developed long term views of how the world REALLY operated and how he could profit from views ‘the normal folks’ did not see. Long time coming, his Mom & Dad w/b proud!
The Art of the Deal tells you to sleep less. perhaps only 3 hours.
Not a great idea.
You still here?
Oh dear. I was merely referencing PDJT’s innate and incidentally, Geminian traits of intuition, quick wit and resourcefulness – and his expertise at mercurially utilising them simultaneously. Which is fundamentally why he is always ten steps ahead of his adversaries. And as clearly evidenced in all of his books, by the way. 😉
5D chess?
Exactly – all designed to paint him as tyrannical when all he really is is genius, direct, blunt. Suffers no fools.
Not so much mercurial as nimble. What is obvious from this EO is that he didn’t just hit upon this, all-of-a-sudden. He has given this a tremendous amount of thought and has had his team working on the language for months if not years. We hear talk of “Show Horses” vs ‘Work Horses” when it comes to elected officials. This POTUS is a bit of both; the prized Clydesdale of the POTUS line.
This is why they didn’t want him returning. And fought so hard, starting with J6.
Left wing Media will shriek whether they understand or not, it’s not really information at all but totally propaganda. Sometimes they shriek the loudest because they understand it.
“Propaganda Press” coined by Molly Hemingway. Loved the idea of a press rotation.
Wow. Where to begin? This is going to make a HUGE difference in trade.
The ‘External Revenue Service’ is CBP – Customs and Border Protection – a merger of US Customs and parts of INS under the DHS.
As you may know, the Federal Government received most of its revenue from customs (tariffs) prior to the imposition of income taxes.
That worked pretty well, at both funding the Federal government, and also keeping it to a manageable size.
My wife will get items through Temu and Shein.
Very inexpensive.
Get here pretty quick.
Never has one package had a customs ticket, describing the items, value, etc.
For China, this adds a whole new level of complexity and regulation, not even considering that a tariff may be imposed.
That billion packages all need a customs declaration, and any randomized inspections CBP conducts will quickly determine the accuracy of the contents and value, with expanded inspections if either is way off target.
I definitely see the Mail Branch of CBP expanding in size and focus!!
The tariff hammer 🔨 is a BIG weapon for DJT.
USPS integrated w Chyna & Amazon to make this possible. Lot of small things delivered are ‘US Mail’, 2 weeks ago were in China….remember PDJT45 saying USPS doing it below cost….
Isn’t the U.S. still subsidizing small shipments from China, by lumping China in with “developing” nations ?
Yes
This is another example of USA taxpayers funding other companies and countries
Idiot consumers here are going to start screaming when they have to pay extra to have cheap knockoffs shipped from Coronaville
Right, like China and India getting a pass in the Paris Climate, treated as if it is still like a 3rd world nation.
The Federal Gov. received about half of its’ taxes from alcohol until 1912. Prohibition created income tax.
1913 – Income tax (direct election of senators and creation of federal reserve).
1919 – Prohibition.
Good point, Blackdog! I might have overstated Customs duties, etc. My apologies.
The USA doesn’t currently import enough to replace income tax with tariffs, unless the cost of the Federal government is reduced very, very drastically. Let’s hope tariff revenue is used to “sell” tax cuts, while PDJT’s DOGE program reduces the Federal costs. 24% of GDP is a huge burden.
Bingo. The Sacred, Blood (tax) Sucking Cow. Government, the leech that is larger than the U.S. body.
Maybe he will get some sort of control over USPS before the next election.
And by now I would believe that he has already thought that through.
It took awhile for my wife to get aboard the Trump train. She didn’t like his comments and Tweets.
I would tell her that I am over trying to figure out why he doing things the way he does but only enjoying his outcomes.
Guess what folks, my wife brought our daughter down to Phoenix to the TPUSA convention and even got to see our big beautiful President speak.
I have been here on my branch of this treehouse for a long time but my wife (executive in the tech industry) has been more in the middle. She has always said we need them to work together.
I have told her hundreds of times that that time is over. When you compromise with them they want more. They always move the goalposts.
She gets it! She, with all her heart and soul now believes everything that I have been telling her from Sundance. She knows Dutchman and Retiger and Marcia and many more of you wonderful beautiful people who have all worked so hard to bring us here. Where we needed to be.
My wife has been a DJT supporter since 2015.
She does like her stuff from Temu and Shein, however.
I told her this past week about Trump’s plans for tariffs… and that things may start changing soon.
She understands, thank goodness.
Cool. I just wish CPAC was in FL again. I might actually be able to go 🤔
ahhh, yes, the “mean tweets”
So many vote for the Commies and will end up eating pigeons…. but cannot stomach those MEAN TWEETS! 😮
Ask yourself what size was the U.S. Federal Government in the previous Tariff only/no Income Tax time? The bigger problem is Government has grown like a cancer.
Too many Riders, not enough Horses.
Yep! Everybody’s in the wagon… no one’s pulling it.
(FedGov is waaay too big)
Thoughts on Personal versus Commercial importation impact? In times past folks could meet a large import, lumber for example and declare it as personal, paying or avoiding the duty. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
Under DJT, that tactic may not fly. This is going to get mighty interesting.
I have read that Shein uses slave labor.
Wouldn’t surprise me. I understand some Chinese factories put ‘suicide nets’ outside windows to keep workers from dying when they jump out.
Authority:19 U.S.C.66, 1202. Every package can/will be x-rayed and opened for examination if necessary. Anything entering the country from abroad is subject to any type of examination.
Even governmental and diplomatic pouches can and have been compromised when necessary.
I’m sure tariffs and duty will work great, as long as the annual budget is not $4T
You can console yourself that Sundance is not the only one. But currently, he is one of the best expositors covering the Trump beat, converting the arcane and hidden into the visible and ordinary so that everyday patriots, who haven’t the time to dig into the weeds, can digest it.
I’ve said it before, the Treehouse has an outsized influence on the zeitgeist right now. Use it effectively and prayerfully.
J
Sundance has that uncanny ability to articulate complicated subjects into simple, digestible article. Bravo!
Hear, hear!
Perspicacity
100% correct on Sundance. All of my favorite Populist America First Writers and one who was a Presidential candidate, are gone, except Sundance. It is believed by more than myself that influential people, and people connected to the America First Trump Administration & of course the campaign, read Sundance & the Treehouse regularly. It was initially why I came here after I walked away from the Bush-Neocon-Face Card Republican hostile takeover of the GOP back in 2000.
Then candidate Donald J Trump burst onto the GOP Uniparty phonies like a Tsunami with the America First Populist Platform I knew was needed to stop the destruction of our country & peoples. Thus I am here. Kudo’s to Sundance & all my friends & fellow America First MAGA patriot posters.
Is the Party Over for Bushism?
https://buchanan.org/blog/is-the-party-over-for-bushism-125448
Sundance sets himself apart as the rare treasure who actually informs and explains to his audience what is really going on.
There are many other people who see what is happening and why. Just about all of them keep that information to themselves to use for their own advantage. If they publish anything at all it is carefully positioned and spun for some ulterior purpose.
After a while I think some people even in the so-call legacy media will start to reference directly or at least indirectly information coming from Sundance and the CTH.
I have a hard time finding small parts on eBay from US suppliers. It’s all going to speed packs from China. $4 dollar items with free shipping. See how much you get charged to send it back when it’s defective.
Shipping cost within the US has gotten brutal for small business.
The China dominance of this is a clue to how completely industry shifted from the US to China. Most Americans are completely clueless about this, or don’t care as long as they get their goodies at ever-cheaper prices.
The tariffs are a big step in the right direction to influence industry to shift back to the US, but the scope and scale of the supply chains are monumental. That’s an understatement. Can substantial progress be made in 3 years?
The cynical view is that US corporations are psychopathic entities that don’t care about anything but profit, and if they could fire all the employees and literally just print money – and get away with it – that’s what they would do. So they really don’t care about where stuff is made, as long as they make money.
From personal experience, I expect the losses from increasing USPS malfunctions aren’t helping either, for those who use USPS shipping.
Many observe that dysfunction has apparently been on the increase for some time in the US. Dysfunction begets more dysfunction. Part of a Plan to degrade the US?
It’s not “psycopathic” for a company to buy their raw materials at the best price, the market has to offer, and it’s not psycopathic for a consumer to buy a cheap product and get money over for other things. That’s just capitalism – the ideology or absence of same – that build USA.
Really, in a capitalist economy only the psycopaths buy products that are more expensive than they had to be.
Some people who like tariffs forget who’s going to pay for them. The consumer. There’s noone else. It’s tax. So ask yourself as always, what do I get for my tax money. Maybe it’s a good deal, or maybe it’s not, but there must be something more in the deal than just more expensive products.
Psychopath definition tailored to a corporation:
A (legal entity) with a singular purpose of maximizing monetary profit, having a (self-centric) and (socially-manipulative nature) marked by a lack of remorse for (it’s) actions, an absence of empathy for (people), and often criminal tendencies.
Yep, that describes a profit-oriented corporation, by definition.
Adapted from
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/psychopath
This sounds like some kind of artificial stupidity. What is your point?
The point is companies maximize profit under the rules set by government. The hollowed out Rust Belt in the Midwest and the Empty Texile Buildings in the South were created by our government against we the people.
DEI throws merit out the window and causes huge problems for corporations and we the people. Created by government and all corporations got on board.
President Trump creates an America First atmosphere and the corporations completly change course.
Ultra MAGA
“Hollowing Out” has a history that antedates DEI practices.
The problem space is more complicated.
Businesses make short-term and long-term decisions. Market power can change the calculus.
Business history demonstrates rather pointedly that many fail over the long haul – some because of poor business decisions, others because of excessive Union demands, still others overcome by technical advances they failed to innovate, burdensome gov’t regulations can factor in, excessive debt mismanagement, others produce second-rate products and lose market share, etc., etc; some because of criteria like DEI/ESG that are not conducive to success, some because of deliberate, politicized gov’t decisions
It’s not an either/or problem space.
I can’t speak for others, but if an American company produces crap products subject to repeated recalls or poisoning their customers, then, yea, screw them too. It happens.
“Best of Breed” has to be earned – not claimed.
“Best of Breed” has to be earned – not claimed.”
Indeed
I try to keep my posts brief and you are correct the problem is a bit more complicated.
The big change was import tariffs…… I lived it in Textiles. The government made a decision to get rid of most of the textile mills. Government dropped the import duties and mills closed by the thousands. It was a government decision and it happened to just about every other manufacturing industry also.
AND all the Chinese stuff is pure crap, so we have to replace it year after year and fill up our landfills with toxic garbage, and end up paying what we would have paid in the first place for American goods. I’m for bringing manufacturing back home, even if the interim of righting things is painful.
I want things built to last.
that’s used to be American made. going back to that now when it was all quality done to last.
I’ll happily pay a bit more for something to last through more than 1 or 2 uses.
I am beyond sick of our retail choices mostly being cheap chinese crap.
I want Americans to have jobs not welfare.
Artificial Stupidity is a Gold Standard Term for woke/dei and people who have the disease.
😂
Sadly, that also describes many “non-profit” corporations.
That should be the next phase of Trump’s agenda. Flood the zone.
The “non-profit” status of NGOs committing support of illegal aliens, electoral fraud, etc and universities with huge endowments, need to be re-examined.
Legal personhood, but immortal, like a Vampire. If a persons commits crime, they lose freedom and are removed from civil society. If a person is a felon, even when returned to Civil life they maintain restrictions, holding office, guns, voting.
Corps get special not equal treatment under law.
Corporations got personhood, rivers and forests are next.
Go spend time in Africa and check out the quality of the cheap Chinese crap they have there. When there is no domestic production, China can dump their lead-painted paper-thin plastic products at higher prices. (Excuse the alliteration, please).
I have a piece of round Tupperware from 1987? Still works, solid.
I bought a dust pan from 99 Cent store, lasted months. I only buy tools at Harbor Freight if it’s a one-time job.
I buy some things from Harbor Freight. But you have to be careful in what you buy. I was an electrician by trade and only bought name brand products. However a for instance, a unit step drill bit can go anywhere from $60-80 dollars depending what company you but it from. I borrowed a step bit that a fellow worker had to drill a hole in a heater because there was no hole to mounts a coupling to wire the heater. It was the first time that ever happened. Great bit, I asked him what he paid for it and he said $80 bucks (greenly model) Harbor freight sold the whole set 3 bits for the smaller ones and @ $9 dollars and 3 bits for the larger size set $12 dollar. That was 12 years ago they are probably more now but I’ve only used them 2 times! My take is if the bit wears out or breaks Ill just buy another whole set!
Same goes for woodworking tools. I have a woodshed and if I was going to do woodworking for a living then I would buy the goos stuff. But Harbor freight has some pretty good tools now oppose to maybe 10 years ago. I don’t buy craftsman power tools I think they’re junk! I had a craftsman router that had plastic parts on the inside and broke too often. My Dewalt on the other hand is great! Just gotta watch what you buy.
There is also short-term and long-term thinking. What do I get in 5 years for the cheap product I buy today? My neighbor’s factory closes, he gets laid off, he stops being able to shop at my quik mart, and next thing you know…
The long-term answer is that even some small things are vital to our national defense. If China is our only source for them, then we are at their mercy. Onshoring manufacturing keeps us from being held hostage. But we have to maintain manufacturing expertise here for some things so we can easily expand it to our needs.
We need to bring back manufacturing of pharmaceuticals or at the least get them from allies.
Applies to medications also. Antibiotics and all other drugs should be made here.
ABSOLUTELY!
Like buying foreign steel for our miltary tanks and ships. Good plan.
And having foreign and even enemy nations make 95% of our pharmaceuticals. Brilliant plan.
Promote those great capitalists.
Exactly! Don’t worry about the company who found an innovative way to cut costs to get the goods that consumers wanted to buy.
Complain about the politicians who changed a 100-year-old price ceiling on a minor regulation, which created the conditions for the importers to exploit.
It’s not a far cry to say that the politicians involved with shipping companies (Pelosi) that implemented these new rules for direct personal benefit, those are the psychopaths we should curse. It’s literal Fascism for the government and corporations to work together this way, but we are living in loony toons land where everything was called opposite names.
Speaking of politicians involved in shipping… ChiCom Mitch makes Empress Piglosi look like a piker.
And Bannon last week kept describing an “apartheid” agreement created by Bush & Obama with the Big Tech, to permit them to become the wealthiest industry on Planet Earth and most advanced technically, while free from worry about being indicted or broken up for monopolistic practices.
Sounds fascistic, government making deals with corporations, the loser being the little guys, the consumers.
I’d like to hear more about this “agreement”
Yes, the consumer ultimately pays the tariff. That’s the short game.
The long game is incentivizing domestic manufacturing, resulting in less reliance on our enemies.
We’re in the hangover phase of a 30 year long party. After dealing with a bit of discomfort, we’ll emerge with a healthier economy, manufacturing base, etc.
Unfortunately, the price of rubber dog s**t trinkets from the magical Orient will likely be more expensive from here on. A small price I’m willing to pay for national security.
I’ll gladly pay the extra knowing it will last me 10-15 years. Opposed to but some junk as others have mentioned on this thread that only last maybe 1-2 years. In the long run you pay more to keep replacing the junk not only in money but time.
And will Amazon Prime still offer Free Shipping? If not, then I’m out 😉
I think people will forego their little knick-knacks to pocket $2500 extra cash each month. We have been trying to warn women (most susceptible it seems) from using Temu.
need a dislike option too. I can tell you stories of useless things men buy as well. when bills needed paid instead. a good sewing machine is a necessity NOT a Knick knack videos of last year’s football games are NOT a necessity
I wonder if China has the football tapes?
No, household disposable income went up 2017-21. The others absorbed the tariffs, not us. Plus we got the tariff cash. You’re preaching theory, but the data says otherwise.
Labor is “raw material” component.
Corporations are also buying foreign, modern day slave labor that is heavily subsidized by what is left of the working, tax paying citizens of the United States. The tax hit currently happens on both the front & the back of process.
What happens when one goes up & the other goes down & eventually goes away?
What happens if we do nothing?
“Some people who like tariffs forget who’s going to pay for them.”
Tariffs do cost when paid. When not paid, tariffs can deflect attention at no cost at all.
You sound like the broken record from 2017. “Oh, companies will just pass that cost on to the customer, you’ll eat that 25% right away.”
Then it was at least a viable theory because nobody had seriously used tariffs for so long.
What we (re)learned back then was that the pipeline wasn’t:
Production overseas -> (marginal profit) -> US distributor -> (marginal profit) -> retail
but
Production overseas -> (rapacious profit) -> US distributor -> (marginal profit) -> retail
and we found this out because the tariffs were absorbed by the overseas entity without changing their end prices IN ORDER TO STAY COMPETITIVE.
So to directly answer your question about tax, what I get is a) it’s not my tax money because the cost is staying with the overseas producer; b) an increased opportunity for domestic production vs. competing against people with 1/10 the labor cost; and c) more increased opportunity avoiding taxes that would otherwise be placed on domestic income or other burdens on US citizens.
Oh, and an intended fringe benefit we help those other countries become independent and not serfdoms to the US corporate oligarchy when “make cheap stuff and sell it to USA” and “send people over and prop up bad governments with remittances and foreign aid” stops being the game of choice for foreign tinpots.
Make Everywhere Great Again.
And sometimes they are just used as a threat or leverage, Trump’s favorite coaxing tool
Did you account for the devaluation of the currency?
And, now I can buy American for same price thereby keeping money at home in wages anf jobs here.
As China is famous for
Sundance’s article explains that the “more to the deal” is significant reduction of illegal drugs being imported into the US. Considering the social costs of these drugs, slightly higher prices would be worth it. But consider also that tariffs are a negotiating tactic; if other nations are more cooperative with America, tariffs can be reduced. Without that we only have the Obama tactic of offering suitcases of cash to get cooperation.
tariffs only work in a relatively equivalent market level. not a fully developed nation versus 3rd world.
and how is an average 2.5% on foreign goods equitable to 25% tariff on ours? not reciprocal, simply unilateral, and designed to send everything one way (jobs) and have the owners profit to the detriment of everyone else.
got it, it’s “one way” free trade.
try to make it equitable, either raise ours to 25% or have theirs lowered to 2.5%, to match, and watch how bloody their screams are, “it’s so unfair!”
China is a giant mercantilist nation. free trade my ass.
Now you know why, the postage is rigged as well, by the UN of course, China developing nation my azz.
The real answer is the United Nation’s Universal Postal Union.
China is classified as a developing country and is assigned exceptionally low shipping dues. Any member of the UPU must ship items from China at these low dues, making a loss on the shipment if necessary. That’s necessary in order for global postage to be a thing.
So whichever postal service you are using (USPS, DHL, etc) is simply losing money on the shipment from China. Whereas they are making money on shipments within what are classified as developed countries.
This applies only for items less than 2kg though, since the UPU is meant to apply for mail and not business parcels.
Then we need to change that. Ridiculous.
Well they are developing a larger navy and a much larger military in general. Maybe that’s what they mean. I’m being sarcastic BTW.
I Had Absolutely No Earthly Idea about the United Nations Universal Postal Union so I researched it and found;
United States Postal Service Facts Page Shows Shows;
(https :// facts .usps .com/universal-postal-union-upu/)(remove the Blank Spaces)
Universal Postal Union
The Postal Service is a member of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a United Nations’ organization.
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The Postal Service is a member of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a United Nations’ organization.
Established in 1874, the UPU, is the second-oldest international organization worldwide. It is headquartered in Bern, Switzerland.
With its 192 member countries, the UPU is the primary forum for cooperation between posts. The UPU helps to ensure a truly universal network of products and services.
More information can be found at int.
Time to stop treating the top 1-2 economy of world as “developing” for climate, emissions, trade, and shipping purposes.
This is not 1970 or 1990. We created a monster who wants to eat us for lunch.
the quality of everything is down, from food, to goods, to shipping, and all in between. customer service down, barely articulate foreigners can handle that. all Hail to the bean counters.
Sadly, you cannot order many things online that don’t end up coming from China without your knowledge. They are inferior in quality and returning them is next to impossible!
That’s true!
I bought some minor golf accessories from a company with a very anglo name. Subsequently learned the manufacturer was a Chinese enterprise.
Turns out, btw, goods purchased from China down to a very low level (my order came to a little over $30) can sit in customs for over a week.
Vis quality and returns: same story often applies to American companies. Let’s not even begin the discussion as it applies to American insurance companies for their services!
I bought a pair of biker boots on Amazon. They were made in Canada, they sent me the wrong size so I had to return them. I paid $165. for them it cost me $65 dollars to return them! NEVER again!
BTW I bought a pair of boots from an American made company Boots America only 10 miles from where I live, and a belt for the same price “made in America 100%”
Six, seven years ago I read that we SUBSIDIZE SMALL USPS (?) SHIPMENTS INTO THE US – really bizarre – have we stopped that?
That’s supposedly another reason why Chinese business into America boomed – no taxes, and cheap shipping.
I agree with President Trump’s plan, but there will be a hardship transition period for the US. This is going to hammer Ebay & Amazon profits as well, as these small (repair0 parts will become unavailable as the supply depletes.
I’ve bought many small repair parts (gears, motors, electronic sensors, wiring harness, etc.) to repair my washer, drier, refrigerator, electric door locks on a 20-year old truck & more at a small fraction of the price to replace larger components or the device entirely.
I weep for Amazon’s profits
Lots of folks fishing for “new old stock” because parts from China are a maybe they work/fit proposition. Lots of horror stories of doing a complex labor intensive repair several times due to defective parts. I want American made and I am willing to pay a little more.
‘ President Trump has got them surrounded, and the scope of it has the media so overwhelmed they cannot quite put it together. ‘
I wonder if there is a comprehensive tracking list of actions somewhere, to keep up with the blitz.
Seen a few lists, but none comprehensive.
The new White House website has a list of actions.
Presidential Actions
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/
Thanks!
Bookmarked.
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ditto
God Bless and protect President Trump. It warms my soul to have a president worthy of the term who is doing what is best for our republic, just as any true patriot would do.
Kudos also to Sundance, who shines his bright beacon into the darkness for all to see.
This is about to get interesting.. 😁
Thanks President Trump!
I’m telling you, The Man Means Business.
He does, but does the Congress?
If Elvis had Isaac Newton’s brain, Adam Smith’s understanding of economics, Sun Tzu’s grasp of the art of war and Nik Wallenda’s fearlessness, then each of his rallies would be attended by hundreds of thousands of adoring fans all over the country, he would be respected and feared all over the world and he would turn America into Graceland!
I think that’s who we have as our President!
Adam Smith, like Karl Marx, believed that value could objectively be measured. This thinking led to the deaths of hundreds of millions of people from Communist regimes. Value is always subjective: See Ludwig Von Mises.
I’m not a scholar of Adam Smith but I have never heard that his opus, …The Wealth of Nation, was a precursor to the rise of communism. In any case, feel free to substitute David Ricardo for Adam Smith in my post.
Hence the fallacy in all “Performance Management” systems imposed on white collar employees by corporate employers, pretending objectivity but in reality subjective.
This truism especially evident in government, yet behold the recent attempts to impose “contributions-based” performance management, based on the same fallacy.
And just wait until the DOGE scat starts running downhill. The employee performance management system pressures will become intense, yet still subjective, and now increasingly political. Expected outcomes? Massive dysfunctional CYA prioritized over productive work in a hostile work environment, with expected impacts to employee health thus productivity.
It seems this is the goal. Is that a good thing? It depends. For example, is further degradation of defense by this a good thing?
At the blitz speed the Trump DOGE group is taking over, we won’t have to wait long to find out.
If your point is, it’s not realistic to believe government employees (and especially managers) can become or be made to be productive, I agree.
But regarding staff efficiency, remember Musk fired 75% of Twitter employees and the place ran just as well or better than before. I think people would be shocked at how most government office personnel “work” in any given day, and how little they would be missed if terminated. Most of it is elegant welfare.
Did you catch the bit about DOGE “deputies” moving sofa beds into their new offices at OPM?
This is peak overdriven corporate power-seeker MO: They literally stay onsite and work around the clock. This is what the new X taskmasters did when they took over.
Expectations for such insane “work-life” balance flow down to subordinates in such overdriven organizations. Relatively few can maintain 60-100 hour workweeks for long, most burn out under such overload.
This is the new X. SpaceX. Etc. “F YOURSELF in the face” Musk overdrives his organizations, the subordinates work in a state of fear of being fired and comply, that is how SpaceX outcompetes and X was cut to 20% of Twitter staff.
This is also why Musk blew up when the H-1B exposé came out – it threatened his business model. Those employees work very long hours like slaves for very little, because they fear getting sent back to their home nation. The only thing that would make a megalomaniac like Musk happier would be if they worked for free. Or even paid him to work for him.
So it’s not just government employees who have a problem with Musk sending his taskmasters in with their sofa beds to crack the whip. It would be any human who needs any time away from work.
Have always had a bed in my office and rarely worked less than 60 hr/week. Driven is glorious and the most fun. Working isn’t a job; it’s a soul satisfying compulsion. Those stories of the beds are the ones that make me confident that Musk will succeed. He’s gathered together the ones who perform and you don’t need a lot of them to make things work. One of Trump’s smartest acts was trusting Musk and letting him loose. That took massive trust between them and they spent enough time together planning to know what to do to get the results Trump wants.
We The People should not have to bear the cost of 24% of GDP to fund the Federal government or its 2.5 million civilian employees.
And half the staff any given day is out or at a “doctor’s appointment” even when not “working from home”
With DEI forced into all the workplaces, corporations resorted to Performance Management. Without Performance Management measures, a DEI hire could never be removed. It would always be viewed as discrimination.
WIth Capitalism a company’s goal is to make as much profit as possible not to focus on the Diversity and Incompetence is Strength.
Already DOGE has exposed TREMENDOUS WASTE AND CORRUPTION. The folks all over government know how corrupt government truly is. A truth for me is that if you allow corruption and theft in a company, you will get a LOT MORE OF IT. Everyone down the ladder comes up with a way to steal.
Performance Management was driven by consultants like McKinsey – “Personnel” departments became ” Human Resources” and annual evaluations became ever more subjective. Keeping your head down and working was no longer valued enough. Managers stopped managing, mentoring, and guiding, workers were expected to be “self driven” and magically figure out what was wanted.
You mean, like weekly, or even daily, “status reports”?
Thank you Sundance! Had been wondering about this previously mentioned (albeit seemingly overlooked) ERS – and it’s role in all of this.
It is about time the entire Ricardo concept of free trade is looked at. In an era where both labor and capital are mobile, manufacturing moves to the lowest cost, always.
Trump should be putting wage and environmental law arbitrage tariffs on everything coming into the country, but especially Chinese goods.
Our VSGPDJT as explained by our resident genius Sundance. Two amazing and incredible men we are very blessed to have on our side. Thanks, SD! The brilliance of this external revenue service is a beautiful thing to see.
President Trump has to work fast to show the American public how good things can be so they will never accept a return to wealth ex filtration and the slavery to the world a “service economy” brings with it.
At the same time President Trump has both to impress upon the world that the USA will never again be taken advantage of in trade and break the mega corporation monopolies of setting prices through manipulating supply on the US market.
President Trump is breeding a business model goose that lays golden eggs with the goal of once the people see it they don’t allow the goose to be destroyed but instead raise more geese.
At some point Trump and Congress are going to have to address campaign finance reform. If China and big business can continue to finance (buy) politicians, legislation will always be about self enrichment instead of the benefit of the American people.
Prosecute ActBlue out of existence
As RedSetter stated, campaign finance reform must be addressed. In addition, tax reform must be addressed so it is more lucrative for companies to stay in the U.S. and for those companies that offshored to return. It’s all about the money.
I am loving what Trump has been doing for America since 1/20. What happens 1/20/29 when he leaves office? It will all come undone with a dem president, and screwed up with a rino. Its like we have these 4 yrs to relax a little before we’re up against it all again…
President Vance will keep MAGA alive for another 8 years.
Then Eric Trump or Lara, then Barron.
What? Hopefully, Trump scrapes Vance off and kingsmakes another, truely MAGA replacement. Why do we want another bought-and-paid-for politician back in there again? Everything undone just like a D in office with that guy. Or Vivek. Or Rubio. Or DeSantis. What’s with so many folks being O.K. with Vance? He’s Pence, but this time Trump knows what he is.
Such truth, Mr. President!
Keep uprooting this rigged system!
You, like the rest of Americans, have experienced the pain inflicted by those who rigged it.
Root them all out of our government with extreme prejudice!
We watch and applaud!
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Tariffs should extend to Polar Vortexes and Arctic Blasts coming from Canada to protect the US Climate Change Industrial Complex from serious damages. Those lithium batteries, windmills, and cow farts just can’t take extreme cold Canada insists on exporting south of the border.
We have tried Temu sourcing and packages sometimes come from within Europe meaning Temu has figured out how to set up warehouses within the EU/EFTA trade zone without having to declare what is in the package when it it shipped within Europe.
For the US tariffs, a similar situation would arise if there is a transshipment point in a non-tarriffed country.
and sometimes they are coming from Amazon…and from walmart.
reality check: temu and consumers of its products are realizing that they can cut out the middleman. although branding is marked differently, almost all of the product are essentially the same as the standard big two online retailers…consumers are not stupid. why pay 19 bucks for a pair of cheater glasses, when you can buy the same exact cheaters for 3 bucks? furthermore, who do you think Walmart and Amazon are manufacturing these products? china! and likely the same exact shops in China…one division does the printing jobs for placards and packaging for amazon, another for Walmart, and another for temu.
I am not opposed to tariffs, but will they actually create the kind of business environment that will RESHORE manufacturing and production within the US…tariffs alone do not accomplish that. I am not being a negative Nancy, but there remains far more work ahead to steer the US back to a manufacturing based economic engine. We are NOT THAT. And have NOT BEEN THAT for a very long time. Is it possible? Yes. Can it happen through tariffs? maybe…But then we have to go to the next question: what banks and investors will be eager to invest in building out US manufacturing IN THE US? Given most of the commercial banks that do this sort of lending, they are more than likely to continue to fuel a china manufacturing model, simply because China doesn’t have the same kind of political obstacles the US has. Every 4 years, the terms of our national economic security strategy shifts. And to be more precise out of that 4 years, realistically, you only get to realize perhaps 2 of the results of those changes in strategy. The point is that China has a fundamental advantage: which angers me a LOT. That US politics literally sabotages any realistic chances that the US can become competitive in the long term. We ought to have some degree of common cause about this long term agenda, and yet, we have regimes like the obummers, clinton’s before and the twisted navel gazer Joe malarkey literally carrying water for China and allowing them to dump cheap loss leader goods into America.
I don’t know the answer to this political hot mess that has been created, but I am thankful we do have a President who is taking action with the speed and focus of a serious minded American Patriot. I pray for his leadership everyday…That he is able to SHOW how we can actually have nice things, build great jobs, provide goods and services that compete with China.
A little small town in Mississippi has a poverty rate of almost 30 percent…with unemployment nearly 14 percent. And estimates are that 6 out of every 10 unemployed person is not even looking for work. That is totally unacceptable. I use this example to show some differences…It’s not so much a difference in work ethic and culture, but a reality that areas like this little Mississippi town are the results of decades of decay and people “left behind”….these are the results of very large investors and banks and the big box stores, who decided long ago: we will do business with China…screw America
God Bless America
Reshoring will allow high school students some profitable part-time work. My husband worked at a steel mill in high school at night. I know another man who worked in a factory producing wire. I worked at a bank inputting mortgages on IBM cards as part of my work/school program, at age 16. I started typing up license plate registrations in Ohio at age 14 using my dad’s social security number to obtain a work permit. My daughter, who is now middle-aged, used to collect and collate fuel receipts from pilots in the summer hire program at an Air Force base. This is a vast untapped resource of manpower.
Many teenagers are consumed by activities such as sports to work a job while in high school.
Geez oh pete I think you missed the point
Repatriating illegal aliens will also open opportunities for Americans that cannot or don’t want to work full time.
They’ve been shut out of the labor market with the “jobs Americans won’t do” trope for decades.
And all too many paid welfare, food stamps, etc to not work
The message when I was young was, ‘you don’t work-you don’t eat’. When I didn’t want to work out in the garden, I was reminded of this.
Also, ‘give a man a fish, he eats for a day; teach a man to fish, he eats every day’.
God Bless America
Funny you should mention this. I recently ordered something via eBay, it came from China (or Singapore), but was routed through France (according to the tracking information provided) before arriving in NY and then on to me. Guessing the Administration will have to take a close look at this.
I need to make a correction. It wasn’t an eBay purchase. It was purchase direct from the seller’s website. The company is in Singapore.
Interesting article for you to consider re that same topic. Dated Dec 24, 2024:
Mexico ends border-skipping loophole e-commerce companies frequently exploit – FreightWaves
Thank you for the clarity on the de minimus exemptions. Never knew how that worked.
Does this mean that we will need a lot more Custom and Border control agents(and honest ones at that) to inspect all those shipments and mail packages?
Short answer: yes.
CBP has inspects cargo and passengers.
The big focus has been on passengers (pax) the last 20 years.
More CBP officers can be shifted from pax to cargo, on a short-term basis.
At EWR (Newark Liberty Airport & Seaport), we could just move people from one side to the other, since everyone was trained to do both at FLETC (Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, GA)
In reality, to conduct expanded trade inspections,
You’ll need more officers coming through FLETC.
Training time at FLETC for new officer candidates is approx 4 months, plus additional training at your home port, that can take at least another 2-3 months, minimum.
So someone in the pipeline today is not ‘on the job’ until at least August 2025.
(New officers are on probation 2 years)
Plus, there’ll need to be a renewed emphasis on the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) an international numerical system for classifying products.
You don’t become an expert on that overnight.
Expect the real hit on imports to come when inspections step up by this summer.
China won’t like it.
Hahahaha
TSA is out of control. My mid-20s nephew was felt up by a TSA agent this morning passing through the security checkpoint in Houston.
No. Let the shipments sit until someone can get to them.
Thank you for this post today Sundance. Very good!
Win, win again, win some more!
He sure is the sprained in chief. lol. This is quite fun to watch for only 14 days in!
Splainer in chief……sorry
I am struck at the depth and width of Trump’s knowledge of the rules regulations and laws and where to look and who to sack and so on. It looks like years of work with some very bright and knowledgeable and cunning investigators. Wondering who they are?
When you surround yourself with the right people (eg Peter Navarro), and they in turn do the same — all with a shared revolutionary mindset — then all sorts of great ideas and supporting detailed knowledge can suddenly surface. Its all been suppressed by institutional Resistance.
Let’s see: punitive tariffs on the bad guys, extermination of ISIS lice in Somalia, and maybe the adoption of old Letters of Marque to interdict the drug Cartels using privateers. Now that’s what I voted for.
Isn’t it amazing what a smart, focused, knowledgeable chief executive can do?
And it seems so easy.
SD you seem almost happy!
It is a sort of miracle what is happening after the last four years. Unfortunately the town we are in is very sad and worried – oh well, you can’t have everything.
every package from every country needs to be marked with what is in it. If a single package is marked incorrectly, then hit that country with a frigging huge fine. 2nd time, bar them from trading with us, especially if they ship more cheap crap here. We don’t need cheap crap.
Our small business has taken a beating from China. At first, they used our copyright and logo and copied our products. Now, they have created a much cheaper product and leverage Amazon, Google, FB & Temu. It appears like most markets; they go really low to push out their competition. I’d like to see the Trump administration not only put a tariff on products from China but also have Amazon, Google, and FB police the bad actors. If FB can police “misinformation,” they can police Chinese counterfeits. I’d like to see our administration not only fine a company like Amazon but give the small business leverage to sue.
Yes, China is a thief! They’ve been stealing for years. We should enforce the laws governing intellectual property.
China does not invent stuff, they steal our stuff and produce it with a forced workforce.
The television show, SHARK TANK…
Big businesses do as well. Many high dollar items available through non-traditional supply chains such as FB Matketplace, Ebay, Amazon, etc. (auto parts, brand name power tools, etc.) are counterfeit and sold at a deep discount compared to that of regular retail.
Same here. My neighbor is the plant manager at a small manufacturing business in the Heartland. Pre-COVID they had 60 employees, dwindled to 12, currently 5. All they do really now is manage imports of their product from a Chinese manufacturer, but it’s assumed that eventually they will be eliminated completely. He calls it “managed decline”.
There will be pain before our rebirth as a nation. In the long run along with immigration these actions will rekindle small and large manufacturing in the USA, pre- GATT and NAFTA and back comes the middle class.
Ultra-MAGA!
“the unofficial Deep State strategist, and the self-appointed misfit explainer of stuff, lol”
I love you all!!! You are my kind of “misfits”, just like so many in history who have been resolved to confront the memes and expose the truth over the lies! Go on Paul Reveres’, ride baby ride!!
Thank YOU, with a Debt of Great GRATITUDE! Amen!
Patrick Bet-David
@patrickbetdavid
Mexico & Canada are about to FAFO.
77% of Canada’s exports go to the
84% of Mexico’s exports go to the
Both of them rely on
Quick tip to Trudeau + Sheinbaum
Step #1: Read “Art of the Deal”
Step #2: Take a cold shower
Step #3: Call DJT to apologize
Step #4: Pray
Trump owns them…
My B-I-L leans conservative but gets his news from CNN. He was having some vapors over Canada tariffs for some reason I didn’t care to pursue. I explained the above numbers to him and how that meant that Canada’s entire economy would shut down in a week if they didnt capitulate.
Canada, Mexico, and China do not have an economy without access to US markets. They cannot have a trade war — it would be more devastating than a physical war.
Great advice. In short, if you piss off the customer, don’t complain that they’ve stopped taking your phone calls and buying your product!
FAFO? Thats great. What will you do with 2 shithole countries on your borders. Apologize for what? We were already working with US law enforcement to fix our problems but no one is interested in hearing that. President Trump negotiated the USMCA and he is the one violating it. Who owes who an apology?
Another great explanation, SD, you certainly have an “A” team of financial people , including, yourself, that can analyze this stuff 👏👏😀👍
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Economic policies across the board explain the life-blood of any country and enable business and hard-working citizens’ prosperity. Sundance has been on this aspect of national security and interest from Day One. Thank you, Sundance and crew.
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Well that explains how to deal with the big problem of China. Why is Canada being dragged into this? 0.2% of the fentanyl going into the US comes from Canada and the illegal migrants going from Canada is minimal compared to what is coming from Mexico. It’s my understanding that Canada is already working with US authorities to further reduce both. I have actually heard US and Canadian auto and parts manufacturers voice concerns that these tariffs could cause a shutdown of North American auto manufacturing in 2 weeks.
Donald Trump negotiated the USMCA and here is what he said about it;
Now he is saying Canada has been treating the US unfairly in Trade? The President negotiated his beautiful deal!! I have heard the President say numerous times the tariffs are go to bring in billions of $$ to the treasury. That money is coming from US consumers. It is a tax. None of it is coming from Canada. Is there an ulterior motive somewhere in this because this doesn’t make sense in Canada
The answer to your question is in your first paragraph, fentanyl and illegal immigration.
He wants both countries to do more on their sides of the border to stop it and yes relative to Mexico the percentage of illegals and fentanyl coming across the border is relatively small but even only 0.2% of the total fentanyl crossing the border will kill a lot of Americans.
Also, if he fixes the Mexican side but doesn’t address the Canadian side, the majority of the drug smuggling and illegal entry will shift to the northern border.
He’s just applying economic pressure to get firm action from both countries to commit to stopping the problem.
To stop the tariffs all Canada and Mexico have to do is present a plan and implement it.
You point out it is a tax and no money is coming from Canada but if the goods become too expensive (he did say he would continue to increase the tariffs if something wasn’t done about the borders) people on this side won’t buy the products and then it will directly affect Canada’s economy.
My two cents.
Yes we will see if it is just about fentanyl and illegal migrants in 2-3 weeks when North American auto production grinds to a halt
I don’t think it will go that long but yes, it’s a big game of Chicken. The question is, who has the most at stake?
The US and Canadian auto companies and workers
So if it’s $70 Billion a year ($70 per package), we net $7 Billion a year in New tariffs.
QUESTION: Six, seven years ago I read that we SUBSIDIZE SMALL USPS (?) SHIPMENTS INTO THE US – really bizarre – have we stopped that?
That’s supposedly another reason why Chinese business into America boomed – no taxes, and cheap shipping.
Amazon was given cheap USPS rates. Eight years ago, Pres. Trump put an end to that. Now, most deliveries are by private carrier.
Are you considering Amazon ‘a private carrier’? I think Amazon is a public/private partnership.
Winning is a very comfortable place to be with a hot cup of coffee and the pages of the Conservative Tree House. Thank you Sundance
When will we bring DRUG MANUFACTURING home? That’s critical.
Can’t we use American Somoa, Puerto Rico, or even Vietnam for manufacturing?
On the subject of “little Eiffel Tower statues,” for a pleasant diversion watch an old movie with Alec Guinness and others from the Ealing Studios, called The Lavender Hill Mob. You’ll enjoy it.
Great caper movie!
The administration knows that fentanyl production, especially in Mexico, is non-kinetic warfare against the USA by the CCP.
Is it possible the intention of the tariffs is leverage (toward Mex. & Can.) down the road when Trump might take more decisive action against the cartels? Cooperation in exchange for tariffs removed?
Although, explanations may seem lengthy, difficult to understand, they really aren’t. Sundance’s gift of discernment comes not from his constant ability to ‘see’ the all the dots and comas. I am sure he has other issues to face in life. He has family, friends, pets, community. His center is the Christ in him…that is why he appears to be special to us. Sundance is special in that he follows the discernment imparted to by Holy Spirit. For this we should not see him as a god, but as willing vessel alerting us to how things work in this world. Sundance has validated, recorded, and shared this mission with us. Not to overwhelm us but to offer empowerment so we too can become strong in the mission. Thank you Sundance.
Once I read the scope of the XO, it makes all the pieces more clear, and presents a more focused intent. OK, there will be and have been bumps…but just keep moving. We are witnesses to a very important and meaningful place in history. Sometimes I become a little puffed up about what I have learned from TCTH, only to be exposed to additional insight laid out in detail.
When we apply adjectives to describe Trump’s ‘powers’ or even Sundance’s, we limit ourselves to understanding who, what, why, how, purpose, results…we limit our cause. If we are willing, we will see the cockroaches and termites that are controlling us, using our fears and lack of attention to kill us. It is not pretty. Once we see it, we cannot un-see it. Don’t be deceived by the ‘It is too complicated, too deep, too lengthy’. We can pretend if we want, but that will not change a thing.
Keep moving. Thank you, Sundance. We have the ability to absorb what we need to know. Thank you for being that patient man who keeps teaching others how to untangle the web. Blessings.
Well said.
Dems’ Favorability Underwater By 26 Points While Trump Enjoys Net Positive Rating, Poll Shows
Trump’s job approval is 10 points higher than it was at the beginning of his first term.
By Zach Jewell
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Jan 29, 2025 DailyWire.com
“Self-appointed misfit explainer of stuff!.” Professor Sundance has a sense of humor!
I get it now.
Maximus de minimis treatment.
Ye Haw!
Are you not entertained? 😎
Brilliant!
The walking corpse, Senator Chao, might finally keel over.
China is in a unique position to really do damage wherever it holds market share. How so? They don’t have to abide by typical capitalist ‘profit margins’ like so many companies across the globe. They have forced labor, use inferior materials, and undercut market pricing so as to destroy competition. It’s their long-game. In America, WE THE SHEEPLE only look at price, buy three where only one should have worked/lasted, and don’t really know much about markets, trade, economy, and politics. WE THE SHEEPLE are some of China’s best marketers…and certainly their greatest consumers.
I will pay more for a T-shirt that is Not see through. There are no spinners, looms or sewers in the US anymore. Cotton grown in the USA is shipped overseas to be made into anything.
So, jobs are created, buy American is strengthened, money is incoming, yet little hits us residents, unless of course, you do business outside our borders with these three nations.
If this is effective at sealing off Fentanyl produced in other countries, wouldn’t they just start manufacturing it here?
Isn’t that how tarrifs work with everything else?
Bring the manufacturing back to the US!
Please tell me I’m wrong l.
Ok, you’re wrong. The chemicals used in the production of Fentanyl are all made in China. Inspections of all imports from China ends the production of Fentanyl
This is very, very interesting information. Thank you Sundance for wading thru the weeds to put this together. I don’t pretend to fully understand everything President Trump is doing but I believe him when he vows to restore America and keep America first in everything. So many people are wailing about how his tariffs will hurt us but, if they do, it will be far less than what Obama has done thru the vegetable Joke Biden in the last 4 years.
At this point, we need to trust President Trump to do what is best for America.
I don’t feel “‘splained to.” I am not sure how a shirt that in America cost $40 but from China already cost only $20 but will now cost $22 will stop Americans from buying. So what’s the point again?
Stellar analysis once again from Sundance, understanding the EO language and its consequences for China, Mexico, and Canada.
And brilliant action on the part of 47 and his advisors for our nation and its citizens.
“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.”
This EO is going to cause the leaders of those countries late night discomfort – immediately.
“…… imported about $48 billion worth of shipments from the world under that loophole in the first nine months of last year, ……”
Now, several hundred thousand acres of US farmland, the operation of the Panama Canal, secret police stations. Pesky little devils are everywhere.
$48 billion deminimus goods, 87,000 External Revenue officials. Hmmmmmm.
I have to wonder if any one on the President’s team, or even the man himself, look for a SD review on whatever the have just put out there, to see if SD catches any flaws, etc. An after-the-fact editor/proof reader. It’s good to have a team of outsiders (SD, Bannon, Kirk, and many others) keeping watch and making lists.