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Trump Postpones China Tariffs Until December 15

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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Original Submission

• Poor Trumpie! Poor Trumpie! (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @07:58PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @07:58PM (#882295)

  Poor widdle Twumpie now wants a stwong Chwistmas season but has to make sure the bwead pwices don't go up too much or nobody pays attention to his ciwcusess. But he's alweddy denied that his tawiffs make consumer goods pwices higher!

  Widdle Twumpie can't admit he's not wight, though! Weak widdle Twumpie.

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• Re:Poor Trumpie! (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @10:28PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @10:28PM (#882353)

  Who is this Twumpie, sounds like possibly an improvement over the current sentient potato we've got in the White House.

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