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Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything

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462 points JumpCrisscross | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 20:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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declan_roberts[dead post] ◴[30 Aug 25 22:14 UTC] No.45078455[source]▶
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SpicyLemonZest ◴[30 Aug 25 22:18 UTC] No.45078483[source]▶
I don't understand the point of this comment. If you consider the most important target to be China, so important that it's worth a 10,000% tariff unless certain demands are met, shouldn't you be furious that the tariffs the source article describes on copper and India and Turkey are distracting from the important things?
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declan_roberts ◴[30 Aug 25 22:27 UTC] No.45078539[source]▶
No because it's obvious those countries don't have the leverage to negotiate. Trump hasn't even started discussing h1b with India.
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coliveira ◴[30 Aug 25 22:42 UTC] No.45078617[source]▶
So what you want is extortion, not trade. It's a worldwide version of the mafia.
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declan_roberts ◴[31 Aug 25 02:03 UTC] No.45079674[source]▶
Maybe we should just lay down and let the world do whatever they want. I would hate to be accused of negotiating from a position of power.
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1. mindslight ◴[31 Aug 25 03:18 UTC] No.45080071[source]▶
Chest thumping false bravado will mislead you every time.

If I go to a restaurant, wait an hour for a table, get very hungry, and then see on the menu that the restaurant has tripled prices, is the restaurant "negotiating from a position of power" ? Sure, once.

What exactly do you think happens to our power after Trump squanders it to extract one-time concessions that mostly flow into his own pockets?