Thread: TPP goes into effect and fucks US farmers all over again
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Old 01-02-2019, 02:29 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Rochard View Post
You don't seem to understand what is happening. It's not a matter of prices. When 90% of your product is sold to one country, and suddenly tariffs make it impossible to sell to that country.... 90% of your product (and 100% of your profit margin) goes to waste. They have farmers with product sitting in silos that they can't sell.... They can't wait until next year; everything will rot before them.

Trump just fucked farmers. Hard. In the ass.
So that also applies to China and all their factories making goods for the American markets.
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