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Re:Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries by KennyBlanken on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @03:21PM (#43636518)
Not really sure why you left out the tens of thousands of people who were almost immediately laid off when companies and their suppliers idled factories?

In the automotive sector alone - GM, Ford, and Stellantis all flipped the master breaker to "off" on a number of plants and sent everyone packing.

That hire-back will not be instant. People are going to miss payments for rent/mortgage, car loans, utility bills, etc.

Let's not forget that many companies hit the brakes, hard, on exporting goods to the US - so there's going to be the shipping equivalent of those traffic "waves" because two hours ago someone on the highway panic-braked

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Re:Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries by fancyfredbot on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @04:25PM (#43637481)
In my defence I mentioned it was "Too late for those working on projects involving foreign manufacturers which have now been cancelled due to tariff uncertainty" which I think covers these auto workers?

Still I'm sure I unintentionally missed many examples of people who've been negatively affected by this saga. I didn't mean anything by that, it's just ignorance or lack of thought on my part.

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