Given the large amount of machinery and transports brought in from Mexico, how widespread could the effects of the proposed US tariffs be?

Posted by eljordin

7 comments

  1. How can US be members of NAFTA, and impose tariffs on the other members of NAFTA? Doesn’t that negate the purpose of the agreement?

  2. I’m not positive on how exactly every state handles this but you should expect to see an uptick sometime on your electric utility costs. GE is one of the larger providers of electric transformers used in the US. They manufacture almost all of them in Mexico. Our utility uses almost all GE transformers. There’s just not really any other practical options unfortunately.

  3. Canada just needs to elect someone just as unhinged as Trump and stand back as they fight to make their countries great again.

    What’s William Shatner up to these days? Will Arnett? Michael Bublé (from the All-Star game)

  4. In terms of items that would probably have the most immediately consumer-visible impact when/if tariffs are imposed, the food & agricultural product category is probably what you’re looking at. Demand for foods is relatively inelastic – while you can substitute items within the category for each other to some extent, it’s very hard to reduce overall consumption.

    That means that prices on products will rise in a way that is directly visible to consumers – unlike the cost hikes to energy that might be driven by increased maintenance and equipment costs behind the scenes. It’s always easiest for consumers to blame the final provider for prices hikes, regardless of whether there are trickle down effects in the supply chain causing it.

  5. Completely irrelevant to the data – is that the GameStop font?

  6. By far, the largest amount of oil we import is from Canada and Mexico.

  7. The tariffs are wild to think of when you look at the raw numbers. Almost 1 trillion dollars in trade and the dude is literally threatening tariffs on that. Just flabbergasted at that choice.

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