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"Easy to win"

Oct 11, 2018 12:43AM PDT

Here's a long read on just one part of one of the tariffs: Brazil, Iowa, soybeans.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-brazil-insight/trump-trade-war-delivers-farm-boom-in-brazil-gloom-in-iowa-idUSKCN1ML0E7
"Trump trade war delivers farm boom in Brazil, gloom in Iowa."

I had thought myself the short term results were hurting China more. Seems not. "In response to Trump administration tariffs on Chinese goods, Beijing this year imposed levies on U.S. agricultural products. Among them was a 25 percent tariff on soybeans, the single most valuable U.S. farm export. U.S. growers sold $12 billion worth to China last year alone."
And, "Some fear the lost ground will be hard to reclaim", which is often the case. That's why I said sometimes there are no winners in tariff wars.

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Tariffs
Oct 11, 2018 4:15AM PDT

If the tariffs go on for very long there is going to be a shift in suppliers.
Not only in the US but also China.
The soy bean market may never come back to Iowa.

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NOW they're messing with Xmas!!!
Oct 12, 2018 5:49AM PDT

THAT does it!!!

Winning?

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You don't celebrate it so it's not to worry
Oct 12, 2018 9:49AM PDT

Here, I like my eggnog, fruitcake and German Stollen. I don't think any of these are on the tariff list.

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Oh No !
Oct 12, 2018 10:07AM PDT

Are you one of those friends that give fruitcake for gifts Silly

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After the Big Kaboom, nothing left but
Oct 12, 2018 10:17AM PDT

roaches, coyotes, rats and fruitcake.

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ahhhh !
Oct 12, 2018 10:32AM PDT

You mean after Yellowstone blows it's top LOL Devil

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Pretty scary, actually.
Oct 12, 2018 11:17AM PDT

There's a US Geodetic Survey video on just that possibility. Much worse than we thought.

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BTW, in Brazil, Ag is about the only thing working.
Oct 12, 2018 11:20AM PDT

Much of that is unintended consequences of others' foreign policies.
Its a complicated world.