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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnd now the Orange Oaf is attacking Mexico again
Link to tweet
Cha
(320,590 posts)dalton99a
(95,304 posts)Bengus81
(10,371 posts)Oh no,Trumps crappy suits will cost 20% more!!!

Buckeye_Democrat
(15,539 posts)https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/opinion/campaign-stops/and-if-elected-what-president-trump-could-or-couldnt-do.html?_r=1
Can he slap tariffs on China, as he has threatened? Yes, he can. Congress has delegated to the president the power to retaliate against foreign countries that engage in unfair trade practices like dumping, leaving it to the president and trade officials to determine what that means.
NightWatcher
(39,382 posts)from Mexico.
And in doing so, starting a trade war with our #3 importer of US goods.
hatrack
(65,149 posts)And US GDP for the same year was $18.04 trillion. So, yeah, let's piss off a neighboring nation and start a trade war over a trade in goods deficit of .3% of GDP.
Whatever, asshole.
https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/mexico
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Pathetic.
Can't wait until he tells PM May he is responsible for Brexit and her election! I hope she doesn't get mean.
Initech
(109,269 posts)global1
(26,507 posts)and I don't mean in a good way!!!
Mexico won that battle.
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