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  • If the US manages to reduce their imports, what will probably happen is that the rest of the world will cut the more optional consumption from there so that they can keep buying the food. What means that US industry will suffer.

    But your first feeling that sellers and buyers will redistribute who they deal with is probably correct too. Anyway, the tariffs shouldn’t have an immediate effect of changing how much food moves around, but nobody knows what domino pieces they will hit on the fall.

    On the very short term, China is tariffing stuff that hurts. What means they are serious about not buying from the US and will pay extra for the privilege. And yes, also means somebody else will probably take their place.


  • Yes, but the other countries that buy from elsewhere will want their normal amounts too.

    Can other food producers increase their production while the US spirals down? Nobody really knows, we are in shock due to both global warming and the war in Ukraine. And the US is a really major food exporter.

    Can people make do with less food? Probably, but it’s not trivial.

    Anyway, China’s tariffs are completely self-imposed. They can cut them at any time.


  • Yes, as you said, they aren’t a new concept. We have plenty of evidence, of countries that tried that again and again. We know what he is doing is stupid.

    Besides, your theory on tariffs won’t even get to be tested. Kidnapping people at random on the street and sending them to concentration camps has an overwhelmingly larger impact on the economy than the tariffs. People from outside of the US will only focus at this if you start to invade other countries, but at this point, nobody inside the US should be concerned with tariffs, at all.





  • On the context of a node package, I’m pretty sure that “solution” is utterly worthless and doesn’t come even close to targeting the same functionality the old code had.

    But odds are the one place the library author used that function can be replaced by a completely different functionality that happens to use the suggestion.