re: #576 Dave In Austin

Well Ok then… There is so much crap in a continuum of swirl, I can’t make heads nor tails of a lot of it any more. Maybe that’s the point. I think a lot of the tit for tat is not necessarily a bad thing. Just going to sit back and burn a fatty and fondl……. Have me a bowl of nuts.

The greater point is that China still buys a lot more of our cars than we do of theirs at this point. We also don’t buy that much of their steel and aluminum compared to Canadian and Mexican imports. So these tariffs don’t hit China that hard but they will hit the EU and other allies, and they are being used as blackmail agains Canada and Mexico for NAFTA concessions, which won’t play well. Lastly those countries aren’t stupid, they can and will target their retaliatory actions against US exports from areas that Trump won while also pursuing punitive damages in the WTO.