>25% on South Korea, 32% on Taiwan, 36% on Thailand, 46% on Vietnam

Harley Davidson moved some of its production to Thailand in 2018 to avoid a 31% tariff the EU had on US manufactured motorcycles, announced in 2024 it was moving more production there, and prior to today had plans to sell the Thailand produced bikes back into the US, as the US had a 0% tariff on bikes. Not surprisingly Thailand has a 60% tariff on imported motorcycles.

This tariff jumping is real. I guess we will see how it works out for the US.

The full list:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-cou...

10% tariffs on the Heard Island and McDonald Islands which are uninhabited, and can be reached only by sea, which from Australia takes two weeks by vessel. And also 10% on Svalbard and Jan Mayen which is also uninhabited. That will teach them not to ripoff the USA!

Oh NO tariffs on Russia or Belarus. None.

What's the actual strategy behind the current US administration slapping tariffs on everything? Feels like they're handing them out like Halloween candy. Is there a long game here, or is it just managed chaos and alienating trade partners for short term optics?

It's not just soft power. It is also economic power. Also, note that there is a baseline 10% on all countries.

Really curious on how it will blow-back on Americans. Because, make no mistakes, it will.

Can't hear you! USA. USA. USA.

Politically it's going to be just like how most everyone fell into line fervently supporting the Iraq War when the corpo media told them to. Then after the unavoidable truth finally seeped in, equivocation and rationalization from "I didn't really support it" to "we were misled". With a lot more visible economic pain, of course.

Then that anger from having been "tricked" will be used as raw energy to drive the next con, and so forth. A broken clock is at least right twice a day, but these low information voters will sabotage themselves every single time.

But can't you feel the liberation?

Effective total tariffs on China will be 54% effective 9 April. No way US does not go into recession...

And wait for the response from the trading partners...

America's leading supply chains just went up in smoke. The fallout is going to be pretty funny from an international POV, methinks.

Don't worry, acoording to Trump this will generate billions and billions of dollars and America will be rich as it never has been before. /s