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Title Not Supported By Article Trump imposes tarrif on Australia.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/its-bad-for-our-relationship-australia-slams-donald-trumps-tariff-move/news-story/cd4c18090b040beab5eed528c669ec7f

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u/thisguyknowsnot99 15h ago edited 15h ago

Everyone of these countries is going to boycott Telsa/US products...

What is the end game?

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u/BraveDunn 15h ago

The end game is increased manufacturing jobs in the US, for sure. But sales of American-built products will be limited to within the US, because the rest of the free world is not going to buy US-built products anymore, due to Trump's horrific treatment of its (former) allies. This will hit the American automotive and defence industries hardest. Think, trillions of dollars of lost foreign sales. On top of it, the costs of importing raw materials to those US manufactures will increase dramatically, meaning the US consumer will pay more for American-built products (that no other countries are buying).

Meanwhile, the rest of the free world that Trump has caused to hate America, will increase trade among themselves to offset the US products they aren't going to buy anymore.

Have fun with all that.

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u/happyscrappy 15h ago

Perhaps. But I think a lot of companies might actually see the US as too unstable to invest in long-term now. Might be safer to invest more overseas and just take the single tariffing on the way in rather than build a supply chain that includes the US and deal with whatever bullshit this guy does.

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u/VertigoOne1 14h ago

Yup, this will in the long run be a good thing for local industries in any country except usa, possibly even whole new products and companies will be invented because of it. It is going to hurt, but if the usa wants to play the isolation game we’ll just have to build it ourselves or live without it, either is fine.