U.S. and Chinese officials said Monday they had reached a deal to roll back most of their recent tariffs and call a 90-day truce in their trade war for more talks on resolving their trade disputes.
The U.S. agreed to drop its 145% tariff rate on Chinese goods by 115 percentage points to 30%, while China agreed to lower its rate on U.S. goods by the same amount to 10%.
And the companies already harmed by the tariffs, having to pay because their inventory happened to arrive on one of the days tariffs were on. Now they’ve paid, but competitors that had their inventory arrive a week earlier or later didn’t have to pay.
I was just thinking about Adafruit, and how pissed they must be.
Yep that’s exactly who I was thinking of, couldn’t think of the name though.
Yeah, I think it’d genuinely be less harmful to keep the tariffs on consistently rather than having all this on/off/on/off BS
You’re not alone. It seems a lot of people who study this for a living are in agreement as well. Shocking the economy is only going to weaken it.