Trump unveils 10% global tariff, with Japan levy set at 24%

Trump unveils 10% global tariff, with Japan levy set at 24%

by SkyInJapan

29 comments
  1. last time I checked for “made in the US” items around my house or work I found 0 items

  2. It seems to me that all other countries will respond in kind, and ultimately it will backfire. Sure it will bring some jobs back to America in the short term, but it will harm their economy in the long run.

  3. This is sure going to make game consoles much more expensive this Christmas. Also, would this apply to games sold online through the playstation store?

  4. Trump may have just fixed the over-tourism problem. It’s gonna be a wild few years for exchange rates. And jobs. And civilisation …

  5. Japan should be 0%, Japan is a great friend and ally of the USA. Why would he create tariffs?

  6. $1000 Switch 2 releasing soon hahahahaa

    Americans are going to be so upset when they find out Japanese-only version is half the price and they can’t get it

  7. Only thing I’m buying that’s made in America are my tools from snap-on. Everything else, Japanese. They have the best engineers on the planet imho.

  8. *holds my paid off Toyota Camry even closer*

    This guy is so unfit to be president of anything.

  9. ELI5 : where on his ass did he get japan taxing US 24% is from? US brand products eg apple and microsoft are priced not too different here compared stateside so im not sure which US products does japan has tariff on

  10. this is honestly a worse number than i had expected. i think in an abstract sense i already realized how much i integrated japanese products into my life. but its a different matter when im imagining what it would take to buy more or replace items i already own.

  11. My Apple products are the only “USA” thing I have spent significant money on. My car is European and looking around my flat just now, my household goods are generally Japanese, Korean or Chinese…

  12. Someone should explain the idiom “to cut your own nose off to spite your face” to the orange cockwomble.
    (Perhaps put it on the cup of a Diet Coke?)

  13. Soon in the future or at least historically seen, Trump will be a hero that united Europe, Asia and South America while playing the main enemy.

    In mtg we call that archenemy.

    Like how Lelouch united people in Code Geass.

  14. So I guess he’s ostensibly gunning for everything to be produced inside the US. There’s a reason that it isn’t already and I suspect American consumers are about to find out.
    Furthermore, the retaliatory tariffs will ensure that whatever does get produced in the US won’t be sold abroad as much.

  15. It feels Iike the four years older twice as heavy school bully punching me and then punching himself. He repeats this crazy loop again and again. And he just keeps screaming “Stop attacking me! I am defending myself against you!”. 

    I wish he would at least stop hitting himself, then things would make sense.

  16. As an American I typically avoid our products. Integrity left the building long ago here. Stuff doesn’t last. I’m bummed because I don’t want to have to buy more of our stuff. Also, the kinds of jobs they’ll likely “bring back” are the kinds of jobs they’ll also be removing the minimum wage to accommodate.

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