Home Contact Us

ADVERTISEMENT

I worked in import and export for many years - s/m - tiredmt

Posted: Jul 11th, 2018 - 8:30 am In Reply to: Trump is ready to impose new tariffs against China - nana7

The disparity between tariffs placed on our exports and what we charged for imports were ridiculous. Something coming from China could be imported without paying the US anything for import taxes, which we could ship the same item to China and pay outrageous taxes. This has been a problem since the 1980s and no one did anything to correct it, instead gave more and more away to other countries until we had a major trade deficit and paid huge tariffs to the same countries that were getting free imports to the US. China isn't the only country getting the freebies either. It will all even out in time and I don't believe it will hurt our businesses in the long term

ADVERTISEMENT

Post A Reply Reply By Email Options

Use Rich Text Editor with Full Options CLOSE

Edit/Delete Message

Report this message

Complete Discussion Below: (

marks the location of current message within thread)

Trump is ready to impose new tariffs against China - nana7 (Views: 580, 2018-07-11, 7:41 am)
- I worked in import and export for many years - s/m - tiredmt
  - This needs to be moved to the politics board - nm (Views: 430, 2018-07-11, 8:40 am)
  - I agree, this can has been kicked down the road for over 30 years. - Now somebody has the guts (Views: 382, 2018-07-11, 10:21 am)
  - Thank you for posting this. I think this is also true of - Europe and other countries. (Views: 245, 2018-07-11, 12:23 pm)
- Harley announced months ago they were cutting back production - here and has nothing to do with tariffs. (Views: 343, 2018-07-11, 10:25 am)