Trump in multiple occasions said he's in a good relationship with President Xi

[Accardo]

The chaos small businesses will encounter within this tough tariff moment, won’t halt the great relationship the both leaders share. Maybe it would, when pigs fly, yet their goals should be questionable. Are they trying to reap off the big companies and replenish the small businesses in future for the losses they’ve gone through…Robinhood.

I saw a meme that showed planes flying apple phones to the united state to avoid tariffs. Ackman said in his interview, small businesses will get crushed, then the medium sized companies would follow. The government is trying as much as possible to avoid peanuts, only the billion-dollar companies could stand this dog and cat fight - apple invested $500 billion in the United States.

This amount of money sound too large to Trump such that peanuts won’t move his attention.  He’s likely to use the generated funds to clear debts. If he does that the economy may get affected for a while, it’s best to channel the wealth back to the nation and increase business opportunities for the people. My question is; what do you think the ongoing economic joke of raising tariff to more than a 100%, would result to?

   

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[Cryptohygenic]

My question is; what do you think the ongoing economic joke of raising tariff to more than a 100%, would result to?

Nothing other than global economy war. Reckoning that it would set infrastructural and economy competitions among the big influential countries while the struggling and sleeping countries suffers it because the move of Trump's tarriff would be an orchestra for local communities to sit up for it evaluation or lie low being enslaved by the awoken and well planed communities which at last the weak will be a point of attraction for a punching bag by the whales.

[mocacinno]

I try to steer away from politics in a global forum like this one... But nowadays, it seems allmost impossible to do.
For your question, i guess the current tariff war between the US and China (and in 3 months between the US and dozens of other countries) will probably reduce trading. In this case, tarifs >100% will probably reduce trading to allmost 0. Sure, from time to time some products might be traded if the other country *really*, *really* needs them and has no other place to source them from, but in general, i guess such tariffs will probably allmost completely halt all trading between the "fighting" parties. Maybe it'll be beneficial for other countries when you look at a very, very short timeframe?

I'm not an economist, but i can only assume that these tariffs will hurt the whole world in the short run, and probably will keep huring everybody in the long run aswell... But once again: i'm not an economist.
Personally, i don't think anything good will come of the current actions, but time will tell if i was correct or not. I personally think that global trade would be a good thing, but maybe i'm missing the big picture.

[franky1]

good relationship = no bombs thrown

although media spout clickbait fearmongering. and shouting out big numbers. and over usage of word "war" in regard to trade relations..
both side are not shouting to kill/execute/murder/assassinate each other

when you watch wrestling or boxing.. some will see what they think is hatred.. but reality its good sport. they shake hands and respect each other outside the ring

US-china relations is nothing like ukraine-russia relations... nothing like isreal-gaza relations

i guess the current tariff war between the US and China (and in 3 months between the US and dozens of other countries) will probably reduce trading

the idea of this current saga is to push china to come to the negotiation table sooner rather then later.. test china's ceiling and push him to limits. and get him to come to the US and make best deal before the other countries

as for the other countries they have 3 months because they already made calls asking for deals so given a 3 month buffer to get the deals done so there is no big shock number in later months because the deal is done before the deadline

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the stumbling block of china not running to trump is because under normal conditions china only made like $57b sales tax from the $439b sales to america.. so having to get its populous to buy extra $296b of us product(from 143 to 439) to balance deficit sounds silly. a better smarter deal is to sell less product to the us (from $439 to 143)to balance the deficit
as losing $57 sales tax is easy to brush off rather than push people to buy more US product

china dont see benefit in a plan to buy more US product. so they see no rush to come to a deal

current situation
china->US $439b earns china 13% $57b sales tax
US->china $143b earns Us 5% $7.5b sales tax

EG trump wants (no deficit)
china->US $439b earns china 13% $57b sales tax
US->china $439b earns Us 5% $21.9b sales tax

china wants (no deficit)
china->US $143b earns china 13% $18.59b sales tax*
US->china $143b earns Us 5% $21.9b sales tax

* where china's total treasury income is over $3trillion so a couple dozen bill loss from US is not much loss, and can make it up from other countries
and this is why china is in no rush to come to the US negotiation table. china is actually happy to not have as much trade happening between Us-china

[Accardo]

Sure, from time to time some products might be traded if the other country *really*, *really* needs them and has no other place to source them from, but in general, i guess such tariffs will probably allmost completely halt all trading between the "fighting" parties. Maybe it'll be beneficial for other countries when you look at a very, very short timeframe?

I'm not an economist, but i can only assume that these tariffs will hurt the whole world in the short run, and probably will keep huring everybody in the long run aswell... But once again: i'm not an economist.

There are two possibilities to this - imported goods prices will skyrocket and domestic products will reduce in price since it'll hardly go to other nations thereby demand won't surpass supply. In as much as international trade will get terrible, countries with high production rate of commodities will thrive once tariffs gets down.