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Offline ABX

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A Florida boat builder absorbs $4 million in lost business and expects more pain. An Ohio pork producer is losing access to a vital export market and fears the damage will last years. A motorcycle shop near Cologne, Germany, wonders if it even has a future.
A brawl that the United States provoked with its closest trading partners is starting to draw blood. On Friday, the European Union began imposing tariffs on $3.4 billion in American goods — from whiskey and motorcycles to peanuts and cranberries — to retaliate for President Donald Trump's own tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. China, India and Turkey had earlier begun penalizing American products in response to the U.S. tariffs on metals....

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/boat-makers-farmers-us-led-tariff-war-inflicts-56096054



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Re: From boat makers to farmers, US-led tariff war inflicts pain
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2018, 08:47:46 pm »
Squirming now with 'pain'?

This is rich, as we are seeing now the pains we have been undergoing now for years due to high tariffs for US imports to other countries and unfair subsidization.
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Re: From boat makers to farmers, US-led tariff war inflicts pain
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2018, 09:08:33 pm »
More globalist hogwash.  Soro's lackies.
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Re: From boat makers to farmers, US-led tariff war inflicts pain
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2018, 09:24:27 pm »
We're just pawns in someone else's game...

A little sacrifice of peoples lives for the "greater good" and all...

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Re: From boat makers to farmers, US-led tariff war inflicts pain
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2018, 09:37:46 pm »
We're just pawns in someone else's game...

A little sacrifice of peoples lives for the "greater good" and all...
Sorry I'm really having one of those days!

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