The Trumps & Elon tweets thread (Had to make this since it's never ending)

[psyph3r]

Until the UK FTA scotch had an 150% tariff.

We're talking about the US.

And The article I quoted mentioned a drop by 115

From 145.

 

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We're talking about the US.

Scotch was available in India and until the FTA had an import duty of 150%

Therefore it's not an embargo is it.

And if it was meaningless why announce increase to 245

From 145.

245 is the total including existing tariffs from Trump's first term + tariffs imposed by Biden + whatever to date

So add 100 to whatever figure people are quoting because the figure quoted is only from tariffs imposed in this term subject to further negotiations

The figure comes from adding Trump’s second-term China tariffs of 145% to previously existing levies. In his first term, Trump put 25% tariffs on Chinese EVs, which President Joe Biden increased to 100% last year, when he also imposed a matching tariff on Chinese syringes.

The 245% total does not reflect any new tariffs, then, but just reflects existing maximum charges. The White House “just now decided to add up” the total tariffs, an official said. The vast majority of Chinese goods face lower import taxes—though they are all significantly higher than anything seen in previous decades.

Source

So 245 - 115 is how much ?

Or to be more precise, it is 100 + x where x is whatever they reduced it to now

 

[psyph3r]

And if it was meaningless why announce increase to 245

Because it's trump.

 

[blr_p]

Because it's trump.

Also it's reminding people what the total is

But I note articles announcing the reduction fail to mention pre-existing tariffs

 

[ajeetone]

How to kill the time, a book by TE member

 

[TEUser2K1]

Finally, India makes it official: Trump didn't broker India-Pakistan ceasefire | India News - The Times of India

India News: NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday reiterated its rejection of US President Donald Trump's offer to mediate in the dispute with Pakistan over J&K, and said I.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

 

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Finally, India makes it official: Trump didn't broker India-Pakistan ceasefire | India News - The Times of India

India News: NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday reiterated its rejection of US President Donald Trump's offer to mediate in the dispute with Pakistan over J&K, and said I.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

This is from the latest foreign office presser.

Opposes been having a feld with this so these clarifications should shut them up

 

[roadrash99]

Finally, India makes it official: Trump didn't broker India-Pakistan ceasefire | India News - The Times of India

India News: NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday reiterated its rejection of US President Donald Trump's offer to mediate in the dispute with Pakistan over J&K, and said I.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Diplomatic statement. They did not deny that they won't allow US to mediate.

"That stated policy has not changed. As you are aware, the outstanding matter is the vacation of illegally occupied Indian territory by Pakistan," MEA said when asked about Trump's offer.

They are just saying what the issue is according to them. They didn't say US can mediate on this.

Finally, India makes it official: Trump didn't broker India-Pakistan ceasefire | India News - The Times of India​

This headline is also a bad one. Indian diplomats are saying we just talked to Trump and not Pakistan. Just because there was no meeting of the 3 together, doesn't mean Trump didn't broker it. You can do that by talking to the two parties one at a time.

Any way it's irrelevant to split hairs on this because no one in the global media will hear about this lol. If Modi explicitly took a strong stand against mediation that would have got some traction.