Reply to post: Re: Diplomacy Speech

Timely Trump tariffs tax tech totally: 25 per cent levy on modems, fiber optics, networking gear, semiconductors…

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: Diplomacy Speech

"At least it's a timely example of the benefits of trading on WTO rules."

And those same WTO rules say you can't place tariffs on a country, only on goods. So any other country making the same goods as China and exporting to the USA will be subject to the same tariffs. US buyers can't just shift to another supplier in another country.

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