In other words?
Tough Shit fella’s….
I do NOT care about You, The American Consumer and Others….
Nor do care about the your costs , profits or Economy….
But he HAS ACTUALLY exempted tariff’s of vehicle’s manufactured BY American companies in Canada and Mexico…
And mostly EVERYTHING Else till next month
So?
In TYPICAL Donald J. Trump fashion?
He talks out of BOTH sides of his Mouth….
Go Figure?….
Corporate CEOs have “plenty of clarity” on U.S. tariff policy, despite all the on-off-on changes of recent weeks, President Trump said Sunday.
Why it matters: Markets are falling, consumer confidence is declining, and executives say the uncertainty about tariffs is freezing up their businesses.
What they’re saying: Trump, in an interview with Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” was asked if CEOs will get clarity on tariffs in coming weeks, especially with an April 2 reciprocal tariff deadline looming.
- “You’ll have a lot, but we may go up with some tariffs, it depends, we may go up — I don’t think we’ll go down, but we may go up,” he said.
- “They have plenty of clarity, they just use that, that’s like almost a soundbite, they always say that, ‘we want clarity.'”
Catch up quick: Over the last five weeks Trump said he’d impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico, then paused them for a month, then put them into effect, then exempted cars, then exempted almost all other imports (but only until early April), then threatened new tariffs against Canada on dairy and lumber.
- He’s also imposed new tariffs on China, launched tariff investigations into copper and lumber, and promised to go ahead this week with fresh levies on steel and aluminum.
- U.S. stocks have underperformed almost all the other large global markets during that time. (The administration has made clear, however, that stock market performance is not its primary focus.)
What to watch: What actually gets imposed, or not, in the coming weeks, and for how long….
Trump?
Ah, Fuck it….
Companies Warn Federal Cuts Might Hurt Business
“Elon Musk’s sweeping makeover of the federal government in recent weeks is reverberating across the private sector, where companies have started expressing fear and uncertainty about disruptions these changes might inflict on their businesses,” the Washington Post reports.
“As the year’s first earnings season kicks off, dozens of companies in health care, technology, real estate and defense — industries that might have expected rising profits from President Donald Trump’s business-friendly campaign posture — are warning investors in their quarterly reports and conference calls that the effects of rapid change in Washington are unpredictable and could hurt their bottom lines.”