𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸
@FreeTradeBryan
You thought, you thought... just go! Three years of nursery school and you think you know it all.
Four American presidents on free trade (Truman/Eisenhower/JFK/Reagan) 60 seconds
We’re putting a massive tax on their exports which leaves Indonesia with FEWER dollars to spend on made-in-the-USA goods.
The U.S.-Indonesia Agreement on Reciprocal Trade will unlock significant market access for U.S. agricultural and industrial goods, ranging from automobiles and machinery to dairy and beef.
Nothing is reciprocal about this 🤡
JUST ANNOUNCED: The United States and Indonesia have reached an agreement on reciprocal trade: 🇮🇩 Indonesia will eliminate 99% of tariffs on American industrial goods, tech products, and agricultural products. 🇺🇸 American products sold in Indonesia will have a 0% tariff rate,…
Hershey is increasing their prices by 20% due to higher prices from tariffs. And take a wild guess who is paying for all of it?
Your "deal" leaves Americans paying a new 19% tariff on Indonesian goods, thereby making us worse off than we were before you started "deal-making."
The United States and Indonesia agreed to a Framework for an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade. This deal will unlock unprecedented market access for American farmers, innovators, and producers, lower tariff and non-tariff barriers facing American exporters, and deliver lasting wins…
If you put a 19% nonreciprocal tariff on goods from Indonesia, people in Indonesia will earn fewer dollars to spend on U.S. exports.
JUST ANNOUNCED: The United States and Indonesia have reached an agreement on reciprocal trade: 🇮🇩 Indonesia will eliminate 99% of tariffs on American industrial goods, tech products, and agricultural products. 🇺🇸 American products sold in Indonesia will have a 0% tariff rate,…
"While the world fixates on Donald Trump’s populist cocktail of reciprocal tariffs and big, beautiful deficits, @JMilei is delivering a man-made miracle that should gladden the heart of every classical economist and quicken the pulse of all political libertarians." 1/5
US officials say they don't want to make t-shirts and socks domestically, but apparel and footwear are subject to steep new tariffs on top of steep old ones, writes @apparelfootwear CEO Steve Lamar in @juststyle (link follows):
Scott Bessent in January: “We do not have a revenue problem in the United States of America, we have a spending problem.” Scott Bessent today: TAX AND SPEND!
We've brought in nearly $100B in tariff revenue so far and are on track for $300B this year. That's almost 1% of GDP. June delivered a budget surplus with higher revenue and lower spending. This is how we clean up the fiscal mess we inherited.
Here is the @threadreaderapp version of my thread on trade. Since 1994, the number of people living in extreme poverty declined by >1 billion, foreign trade barriers on US exports fell by 2/3, illegal immigration from Mexico fell by 70% without hiring a single new ICE officer or…
Breaking: General Motors' profit shrank 35% last quarter after taking a $1.1 billion tariff hit on.wsj.com/4eXz66U
Canada slapped 25% retaliatory tariffs on U.S. spirits and cleared them off the shelves. Sales plunged 65% in weeks. Trade wars don’t just hit producers, they hurt workers, small businesses, and consumers on both sides of the border. wsj.com/livecoverage/s…
The federal government lets them gouge American consumers, bakers, and candy manufacturers, charging us twice the world price for sugar. 🍭
What an incredible visit with US Sugar! Florida’s sugarcane farmers are producing something truly special. Proud to support their work and the sweet success of American ag. 🇺🇸
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Howard Lutnick's investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald is offering to buy the right to businesses tariff refunds, basically betting that the courts will overturn the tariffs.