"Liberation Day" sounds very comforting, but will it actually free anyone from anything? Are Americans ready for specified uncertain sacrifices?
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Why does this problem be in the United States? What precisely is it?
The U.S. present is simply a very rich country, very expensive, with a advanced standard of living. To keep specified a standart, people must have advanced salaries. And advanced wages rise prices.
Globalisation has just caused production to decision to countries with lower life rates, to poorer countries and thus cheaper production costs. At the same time, China and India have a immense number of people who besides want to rise their standard of living. And so with the US they became a consumer, not a maker of basic consumer goods.
This is simply a classical example of global capitalist competition.
For a while, everyone was happy, but it ended.
Why?
It was assumed that mass and inexpensive production would only be limited to consumer items, simple, mass-used, and more complicated, modern and of course very costly goods will be produced in the US.
Meanwhile, both China and India did not halt at mass and inexpensive products. China became a power and began its own globalisation and conquest of Space. China produces everything, is simply a planet mill of everything. American aircraft and modern weapons have Chinese electronics. The US has a negative trade balance with all its competitors. In a word, American production has fallen.
The Chinese customers and any another cheaper production made a margin between the acquisition price from the maker and the price they set for the consumer. Trump taxed American customers who mediated between the maker and the consumer.
In order to launch an American production that will replace imports, you gotta build a number of factories and make an American production cycle, and that takes time. Are Americans in agreement to wait for fresh panties or slippers for a fewer years?
In addition, there is simply a problem of tariffs and customs of abroad customers for American production, and this concerns mainly arms and aircraft. It is crucial to mention that prices for these products are set "pi x door", due to the fact that decisions to buy their weapons from Americans are the consequence of political decisions, alternatively than due to free competition. And that is why we are calling for Europe to "defeat itself", meaning "buy more American weapons".
Despite the best calculations, Canada is insurmountable in this case. And not due to the fact that Canada has any peculiar production capacity. In this case, it's just about consumption; 40 million Canadians request almost 10X little than 340 million Americans. So even with the best intentions, Canadian buying with the U.S. will not offset American buying from Canadians, and that is why Trump invented to make Canada 51 states.
What's going on?
There is large uncertainty, in specified a case as cooperation between the US and Canada in the production of cars, where individual teams and components for the assembly of cars, circulate across the border respective times. Customs duties on Canadian natural materials will consequence in dismissals from work in Canada and downtime in American factories. Canadian wood is essential in American construction, and forests do not rapidly grow, even in America. Unemployment and global crisis are preparing.
Customs and retaliatory tariffs have arisen. Canada has atomic power plants and excess electricity is sold to the U.S. to landlocked states. The price, which is simply a 25% work for American consumers, has already been raised today.
In the United States, there are besides revolts, even among Republican politicians.
A tiny Republican group joins Democrats to criticize Trump for Canadian duties by voting in the Senate
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For now there is simply a large crisis and unemployment, in many countries including the US. Hence the optimistic "Liberation Day" refers to the beginning of these very unemployed, in fact they will be free.
As for president Trump's policy, it begins to be perceived negatively in the US, and what it will look like in practice will show elections in 2026, the alleged midterm - that is, half-election, where Democrats can take over legislature and change Trump's policy.
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