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posted by Fnord666 on Monday August 19 2019, @12:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the wouldn't-want-to-impact-Christmas dept.

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750770595/trump-administration-delays-some-china-tariffs

The Trump administration is postponing some of its new tariffs on Chinese imports — a significant retreat in the trade war that has rattled financial markets on both sides of the Pacific.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced on Tuesday that 10% tariffs on certain popular consumer items — including cellphones, laptop computers, video game consoles, computer monitors and some toys, shoes and clothing — will be postponed until Dec. 15.

'What we've done is we've delayed it, so they they[sic] won't be relevant to the Christmas shopping season,' President Trump told reporters.

I guess it really is easy to win a trade war: just saber-rattle but never actually do things.


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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Monday August 19 2019, @07:40PM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 19 2019, @07:40PM (#882287) Journal

    If I replace "easy" with "stupid"

    Ok, let's try that:

    When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are self-destructive, and stupid. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don’t trade anymore-we lose big. It’s stupid!

    Seems to work for me. Have you checked to see if your computer was plugged in?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @10:40PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @10:40PM (#882359)

    That isn't a clever change of meaning due to substituting one word. That is just rewriting the quote to be what you want for some reason.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday August 20 2019, @01:01AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 20 2019, @01:01AM (#882408) Journal

      That isn't a clever change of meaning due to substituting one word.

      So what? And some AC brought it up.