Comment on New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs – with the US hit hardest
shirro@aussie.zone 3 weeks agoAustralia’s top 3 export markets are China, South Korea and Japan. If they put retaliatory tariffs on the US we could pick up extra business as we will have a price advantage. When the US duped our old conservative PM, Scummo, into pissing of China they put up trade barriers and our “mates” including Canada, NZ and USA all gained at our expense. It’s nothing personal.
We don’t export much to the US and 10% is as low as it goes. It’s a tax on US consumers.
veroxii@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Also Australia is actually trading at a deficit with the USA. We buy way more from them than they buy from us. Which shows this narrative of Trump to reduce the trade deficit is bullshit.
For this reason though I don’t think Australia will do retaliatory tariffs. Why hurt ourselves more when the USA is less than 5% of our exports?