White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller appears on Fox News to discuss the importance of the tariff policy and reestablishing American industry via the global trade reset.
Miller outlines the U.S market reaction to President Donald Trump’s tariffs and China’s 34% countervailing tariff response on U.S. products. As Miller notes, the tariff program is simply one part within the rebalancing of trade to protect American industry. WATCH (prompted):
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Posted in Auto Sector, China, media bias, President Trump, Taiwan, Trade Deal, US dept of agriculture, US Treasury, USA
Immediately, a huge issue is this di minimus (??) tariff on goods under $800 – chiefly from China.
My guess is that this has a huge impact on Ebay and Amazon.
Also, I thought I read years ago THAT WE SUBSIDIZE USPS SMALL SHIPMENTS incoming from China.
Is this true?
These two combined would explain all the cr-p coming from China – no tariff, and subsidized shipping.
Yes, that happens across the World due to reciprocal Postal agreements.
I stick a stamp on an envelope and post it to you in America. Australia Post gets my money. When the envelope gets to the States, USPS then delivers it to you but gets nothing for doing so.
Same happens in reverse. However, since the rise of China, the traffic between us and China is so lopsided (possibly 80-20 or even 90-10) that it costs our postal services a fortune to deliver packages from there.
One of the reasons why Postal Services around the West are losing a fortune.
Our Post Office also competes, unfairly, with the free enterprise system too.. The US postal system does not pay any fuel tax, road use tax, property taxes, or SS tax matches for workers.. these federal, state and local taxes are 15-20% operational cost for the free enterprise operation.. The cost of a letter or package is horribly over priced due to the subsidies provided to junk mail and foreign operations.. They also practice non citizen hiring, or new emigrant hiring, hasn’t been focused on veterans in 20 years.. plus the “CEO” makes right at 900K a year last time I looked.. Working for the Post Office is a solid middle class job not available to the average US citizen or veteran.. And many of us are well aware of the service received or not..
Yes. China exploits the “developing country” loophole in the UN international postal agreements. Chinese companies get a dirt-cheap subsidized cost to send packages and the USPS has to pay the cost for getting those packages to their destination.
https://www.hudson.org/foreign-policy/crisis-in-the-mail-fixing-a-broken-international-package-system
The current postmaster general Louis De joy appointed 2020 who is stepping down March 24, 2025. The board that chooses the postmaster general stated:
“The Governors greatly appreciate his enduring leadership and his tireless efforts to modernize the Postal Service and reverse decades of neglect.” McReynolds added, “Louis is a fighter, and he has fought hard for the women and men of the Postal Service and to ensure that the American people have reliable and …Mar 24, 2025”
The question of the day. The same board that allowed all of the equipment and systems to be one outdated. Chose this fellow and those before him will be choosing the next postmaster general. I’ve never seen any board positions on any ballot for this board. Is this a way to have NO RESPONSIBILITY for the all of the failure in management and poor decisions about a plausible way forward for at least 4 decades? More appointed bureaucrats writing checks that “we the people ” make all the deposits for.
Post in thread ‘USPS’
https://www.longrangehunting.com/threads/usps.381312/post-3335261
Maybe more so for Amazon since a whole lot of ebay merchandise is pre-owned ( oh man I hate that term) or “second hand”. More people selling things they don’t want or need anymore or things they pick up cheap to make a buck.
Yes, it costs them less to send here than for you to send to your next door neighbor
The American is fiercely independent. BLM and ANTIFA bullied the low hanging fruit. Once the weak, cotton candy, melt-in-your-mouth, wet noodles were harvested… they found most were not so easily bullied. Where have they been? Where are the protests? Blocking highways? Arson? A sliver of opposition and POOF… gone. The FBI, ATF, politicians, IC etc etc etc are fully aware an armed society (to the tune of 350+ million firearms) cannot be intimated, bullied, or coerced.
The thing is, and I’m speaking as a male, I want to be left alone to live my life. Once a man is forced TO DEFEND his home, his family, his way of life… once that Rubicon has been crossed, the monster that appears is ruthless, vicious, violent. That monster will forever be present, angry and simmering because he was forced to do what he didn’t what to do. His life has changed forever.
That people, is on the horizon and why I fully believe, and have faith in, the American soul who, when it draws the line in the sand, the line doesn’t move: It’s defended. We are not Europe, Ireland, Australia, England…
PS: I’ve crossed that Rubicon. I know men who have done the same. We now view life through a different prism because once you see it, you can’t unsee it. I’ll end with “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
Amen
i see on the net that intel believes china will attack taiwan within a few months. i wonder what they think the status of the panama canal ,greenland and any trade with america looks like after that.
Yeap,
Tell me why I don’t buy seafood at the grocers anymore. Tell me why I can’t find seafood wild caught and packed or frozen by American canneries anymore.
Tell me why I only eat seafood from the coast when at the coast from local fishermen.
Why?
Because I won’t eat junk fish from fish farms from polluted countries that’s why.
Chyna can go suck air for all that I care and they and others can stop fishing off our coasts for their own peoples consumption thank you very much.
Check Wild Alaska Company
I dont actually give a fig about the EU.
Most of them were Nazis
I care even less about their auto industry
BMW:They Are the Heirs of Nazi Fortunes, and They Aren’t Apologizing
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/opinion/bmw-porsche-nazi-germany-quandt-flick.html
And those vaunted German cars are overpriced unreliable junk
I don’t know about anyone else, but Stephen Miller for me, is like a cold shower of the history of the USA and how it came to be. I think he knows what the Boston Tea party was all about. I guess in a few words of my own , you tax us (or put a tariff) on the products you know we like, well screw you.
I hope we are in the American Revolution 2.0 with the tariffs.
https://www.britannica.com/event/American-Revolution
I think he’d make a great President!!
UK TELEGRAPH:
German car giants shake off their Nazi past to prepare for war
Berlin’s rearmament drive could see automotive assembly lines retooled to roll out tanks
https://archive.md/IHHpM#selection-2183.0-2192.0
The Germans actually have (or had) some pretty good tanks during and after the Cold War. They just choose not to spend to keep them in serviceable condition, or have adequate manpower to man them. They can talk about a European army but I will believe it when I see them actually keep their military in a deployable condition. Honestly I would be happy if the Germans built a respectable force so we can stop spending money over there.
WHY DONT THEY BUY AMERICAN TANKS?
THAT WOULD HAVE A FAVOURABLE OUTCOME FOR TARIFFS IMPOSED ON GERMANY/EU
Be careful what you wish for
The Joe Rogan Right is winning because the Left has become boring
When was the last time you heard a Leftist ask an interesting question? Thanks to the democratisation of opinion, they’re being sidelined
https://archive.md/6wM2h#selection-2125.0-2149.144
Let the crash begin! America and Americans will survive, become stronger, think about your kids not yourself
It’s a great time in history and we’re living it
The building up of China, and before China, Russia, started in the early 1930s right after FDR (D) recognized the USSR’s government as legitimate and opened diplomatic relations. On top of that, the way was paved for massive investments by US corporations in the Soviet Union. I’ve documented many of those deals in this site’s thread as documented in Antony Sutton’s books The Best Enemy Money Can Buy and National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union. To inform those who did not read any of those posts, some examples of “investments” in the USSR in the 1930s included:
Caterpillar Tractors: Tractor Plant a Chelyabinsk, Russia. Output included tanks and other armored vehicles.
Ford Motor Company: Automotive Plant at Gorki, Russia: Output the same as Caterpillar Tractors and the FordGorki Plant produced engines for other plants to place in Russian military vehicles as documented in the War Department manual for US troops concerning how to identify foreign nation’s armored vehicles entitled: Basic Field Manual: Identification of Foreign Armored Vehicles: German, Japanese, Russian, Italian, and French published June 20, 1941. What the manual did not document was the fact that the Commerce Department had to approve this deal and that all components of each manufacturing facility were provided by United States corporations and all construction and plant engineering was provided by other US corporations. US banks and quasi-government corporation, the International Monetary Fund helped out with financing. The State Department also had to approve the deals along with Commerce Department licensing.
US Steel Corporation: A copy of the US Steel plant in Gary, Indiana area was constructed near Stalingrad. It was the largest steel facility in Europe. It takes mass-produced steel to make modern weapons of all kinds.
Nitrogen Engineering and Dupont Corporation: Facilities for the production of refined nitrogen which is useful for three things: fertilizers, propellants for ammunition, and refined nitrogen for explosives. In WWI, Russia lacked the means to mass produce refined nitrogen.
General Electric: Modernized the Russian power network, which is required for modern manufacturing then and now.
There are other examples of 1930s “investments” in Russia, and there are some from the 1970s documented by Sutton:
Bryant Chucking Grinder Company: Was approved in the late 60s to provide machines called Centalign B machines, to mass produce precision miniature ball bearings that are required in the guidance systems of Multiple Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicles, or MIRVs. Those are small nuclear warheads for Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (IBM), like the smaller bombs released by a cluster bomb, only each small bomb has a targeting system.
All we did with China is to provide them the means to produce trade goods as well as military goods, which enabled the Chinese to raise foreign exchange which could then be used to make their production system self-perpetuating. Russia didn’t make things for foreign trade to raise foreign exchange. Someone wanted the Russians to produce for their military, right in time for WWII. The US corporations had to refurbish the Russian plants a few times after WWII. Basically, what we did for China mirrors what we did for Russia.
Finally, what was done for Russia by our corporations, with the District of Columbia’s blessing, was done during the depth of the Great Depression, while our workers languished in bread lines, hobo jungles, and in trickle-down New Deal jobs in the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration.
Some things never change.
We have a stupid and selfish left that knows very little about economics. Their focus is a horrible example to our children and to those who trust in the Constitution and Trump.
WE, the people do not want what they are selling and if they sit down and shut up, they could enjoy life a little better. They are not solving any issues. They must want to live under Communism/Socialism.
Industries weren’t stolen. Americans gave them away. Now, ask why?