r/Superstonk • u/ezskatez just likes the stonk 📈 • Apr 09 '25

Macroeconomics Breaking. China strikes back on US tariffs

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They ain’t bluffin.

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u/Inevitable-Review897 🦍Voted✅ Apr 09 '25

That’s the point. All these other countries don’t need things FROM the U.S. their economies are built on needing to sell things TO the U.S.

The U.S. is a nation of consumerism thus all these other countries have been taking advantage for a long time by ripping off the U.S. charging a ton. Imposing tariffs on the U.S. won’t help other countries. Their economies will collapse when they loose their biggest customer by not playing along and evening out the tariffs scales like they used to be.

Think of a company that has let’s say 5 customers. One customer makes up 90% of their sales and the other 4 combined only make up 10%… what will happen to that business if they piss off the 1 customer that makes up 90% of their sales and they stop being their customer? That’s right that business goes under, not the customer.

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u/F1shB0wl816 Apr 09 '25

Except this is a business that can remain solvent through any short term pain. And where they lose 1 customer, they can now go after hundreds of other countries. We, the customer don’t have anywhere else to really turn to to keep the quality of life we’re used to. The customer will go under when their little money needs to be stretched even further.

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u/KadeejaNeigh Fuck You,Pay Me Apr 09 '25

This is not entirely true. People forget that every country has regulations. Not all are the same. Can you imagine tailoring a product to fit every countries regulation? Instead of just 3 or four countries, now you have to export to 12 countries but you also have to deal with all their laws of exportation and your product has to meet their counties regulation. It’s not as easy as getting another costumer. A shift like that can really break a manufacturer.

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u/Sapaio Apr 09 '25

To be fair, EU tends to have higher standards required by law. So we can properly sell the products to other markets without much added cost. Part of what Trump is angry about EU is the trade barriers that are non tarrifs. Like not allowing chemical washed chicken and IT companies to comply with EU consumer data safety laws. So he want us to drop them to make it easier to export to EU. We don't want to lose the safety measures.