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#tariffs

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Trump #Tariffs Cause Chaos on Ebay as Every #Hobby Becomes Logistical Minefield
Buying cameras, games, skincare, watches, & anything else from #overseas just became far more complicated, slow, & expensive.
#Deminimis exemption, allowed people to buy things internationally without paying tariffs if items cost <$800, made it very easy and less expensive to get into #hobbies like film photography, retro video games, and vintage fashion, to name a few.
404media.co/trump-tariffs-caus
archive.ph/czoto

404 Media · Trump Tariffs Cause Chaos on Ebay as Every Hobby Becomes Logistical MinefieldBuying cameras, retro games, board games, skincare, flashlights, sex toys, watches, and anything else from overseas just became far more complicated, slow, and expensive.
ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Ars Technica: Ars Live: Consumer tech firms stuck scrambling ahead of looming chip tariffs. “We’re roughly six months into Donald Trump’s trade war, and tech firms remain in a fog, unsure what tariffs or retaliations could be coming next. To shed light on this struggle, we invite you to join us for an Ars Live talk at 3 pm ET on Tuesday, September 2, with Consumer Technology Association (CTA) […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/28/ars-live-consumer-tech-firms-stuck-scrambling-ahead-of-looming-chip-tariffs-ars-technica/

#business#consumerelectronics#economics
Wokebloke for Democracy

"... if you want to know why markets aren’t reacting to the risk of very bad policy if Trump takes over the Fed, you should know that major market reactions to that kind of risk are rare.
... markets probably won’t react strongly until the disaster is already upon us."
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug
#Trump #Tariffs #Economics #WallStreet

Paul Krugman · Why Aren’t Markets Freaking Out?By Paul Krugman
AnnaAnthro

Interac summer spending snapshot

“New survey data from Interac reveals that 78% of Canadians have redirected at least one monthly purchase from a big-box or international retailer to a Canadian business since #Trump #tariffs were first announced.

25% of Canadians shifted 3 to 5 purchases a month, and a fifth of Canadians pivoting 6 or more.”

retail-insider.com/retail-insi

Retail Insider · Interac summer spending snapshot reveals how global pressures are reshaping Canadians' purchase habitsNew survey data from Interac reveals that 78% of Canadians have redirected at least one monthly purchase from a big-box or international retailer to a local Canadian business.
Telmo 🦕

Until now, I’ve been as fair as I possibly could. If the only reason is nationality, then I refuse to take part in trade wars. It is absolute hypocrisy for a European to play along with that. But if the U.S. imposes tariffs ruthless enough to crush even the most ordinary business, then the fairest response is a trade war. From now on, when quality is equal, American origin has become a disadvantage.

#tariffs#usa#commerce
Jorge Tijerino

Who really pays for tariffs?

Goldman Sachs data shows the burden shifts over time:
• June: 64% businesses, 22% consumers, 14% exporters
• October: 8% businesses, 67% consumers, 25% exporters

Tariffs may start as a business cost, but eventually filter down to households as higher prices.

Do tariffs build resilience or just reallocate costs?

#Economy#Inflation#Trade
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Klaus-Gerd Giesen

"President #Trump is not only working to stop a transition away from #fossil fuels in the U.S., he is pressuring other countries to relax their pledges to fight #climatechange and instead burn more #oil, #gas and #coal [by] applying #tariffs, #levies and other mechanisms [...] His animus is particularly focused on the #wind #industry , which is a well-established and growing source of #electricity in several #European countries as well as in #China and #Brazil ."

nytimes.com/2025/08/27/climate

President Trump met with Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, in Scotland last month. He denounced wind power as a “con job.”
The New York Times · Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate GoalsBy Lisa Friedman
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Maggie Maybe

Yep, this person has an additional issue of not having a doctor here, but when all the naltrexone powder is gone at the pharmacy I am screwed.

Sure they can get 50 mg tablets and compound them into my tiny 0.5 mg dose (medicare even paid for them that way) but it doesn’t work as well. Maybe I’m just extra sensitive to medication but they didn’t feel evenly dosed that way.

Tariffs just cut off my access to the medications I need to survive : r/cfs reddit.com/r/cfs/comments/1n1f

#tariffs#LDN#MECFS
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