Trump announces 90-day tariff pause for at least some countries

[moonshinegnomie]

Source: cnbc

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a 90-day pause on the full effect of his new tariffs for at least some countries.

Trump also said that he was raising the tariffs imposed on imports from China to 125% “effective immediately” due to the “lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets.”

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/trump-announces-90-day-tariff-pause-for-at-least-some-countries.html

[Scrivener7]

1. But not the most active countries, including China.

And PS, the only reason the felon did this was because NO ONE was calling him.

He put the tariff on those countries, then took the tariff off "because they didn't retaliate." There were no benefits gained, we just went back to the starting place for those countries before he decided to mess with them.

[gab13by13]

3. Yeah but, somebody cashed in today.

[Traildogbob]

5. Just keep

An eye on MTG and you will not what the next play is.

[Bettie]

7. And that is the purpose of

all of this.

I'm betting that the oligarchs have all made plenty on this.

[Scrivener7]

11. Yep. They bought on the lows. But I think this isn't over. The bond market is

getting hit, so that's a big deal.

[moonshinegnomie]

17. bonds turned around and are now unchanged

i think it was teh bond market that made him blink...

[Scrivener7]

21. Probably. Because if we thought last week was bad, that would have made it look like a party.

But I'm surprised he noticed.

[Marthe48]

2. Diaper don has a new toy

Maybe he'll keep his filthy hands other things for awhile.

[Prairie Gates]

4. BLIIIIIIIIINK

[Tarzanrock]

6. The Turd waves the "white flag." His ignominious "surrender" begins ...

to the "trade wars," which he, alone, initiated. Senile, old, rotting Pumpkin head fucked-up big time. Everyone is saying that Old Rotting Pumpkin Head fucked-up big time. A bigly fuck up! The "biggliest" of fuck-ups for the senile, incompetent, old Fool. What an Asshole!

[Bettie]

9. Why would any other

country in the world ever trust the US again?

Seriously, we have allowed a group of criminals who aren't very bright, frankly, to run our entire government. They are destroying anything that ever made the US decent or a good partner.

[NCDem47]

8. Wow...the S&P 500 took off like a rocket

Someone got to him to say "knock it off."

[Montauk6]

10. Chicken-ass chicken... smh

[Sanity Claws]

12. This fucking idiot

He claims he is such a great business man but doesn't know the basics. No wonder he drove all his businesses into bankruptcy.

[Tarzanrock]

13. This now opens up the Turd's time so that he can focus on ...

slashing social security benefits; eliminating Medicaid; slashing Medicare and raising the prices on pharmaceutical drugs and other activities like cutting Food Stamps and Aid for Dependent Children and Child Medical Care. There's a lot more evil Republican Nazi work to be done to harm and injure women, children, the poor and the elderly.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Trump announces 90-day pause on 'reciprocal' tariffs with exception of China

trump is blinking
https://bsky.app/profile/JoePeeters.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3lmfjzbjyja52

Link to tweet

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/business/reciprocal-tariff-pause-trump/index.html

President Donald Trump announced a complete pause on all the “reciprocal” tariffs that went into effect at midnight, with the exception of China.

Tariffs on China will be increased to 125% from 104%, he said.

Trump in a Truth Social post Wednesday said he has “authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%, also effective immediately.”

“Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately,” Trump said in his social media post. “At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the U.S.A., and other Countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable,” he wrote.

The higher tariffs on China came after Beijing announced new retaliatory tariffs on the United States to take effect on Thursday. The Trump administration has taken particular aim at China’s trade practices.

[Tarzanrock]

15. No one is capitulating to the insane Turd.

No one is capitulating to the insane Turd. This economic trade war the Turd started isn't going away any time soon. It's pretty clear that the insane Turd has irreparably angered our friends and allies and our enemies all over the world. The anger and ill will which this has caused not to mention the tens of trillions of dollars lost on the U.S. markets, on the European markets and the Asian markets is almost incalculable. This, I think, pretty much guarantees an economic Recession -- all caused by the insane Turd and the Turd alone. I wonder what those MAGATs are going to think in August when it is time to purchase new school clothes for their kids -- assuming that they will still be able to afford the prices in the grocery stores. Panic will soon be in the air all across the land.

The U.S. doesn't "own the means of production" for all the imported "consumer" shit which is sold in Walmart, Costco, Dollar stores, Sam's Club and all the other "discount" stores in every small town and city all across the U.S. which "consumer" shit is produced in China and Bangladesh and Vietnam and South Korea and India and in a myriad of other countries. We, the U.S., is screwed because of monumental greed, the Republican Nazi Party greed, which pushed for the "outsourcing" and "offshoring" of our manufacturing in order to use cheap labor, and the greed of maximum corporate profits which came from that offshoring of US manufacturing. See, the Raygun Party's tax changes which gave "tax credits" and "tax breaks" for "outsourcing" and "offshoring" of US manufacturing to use the cheap labor for corporate profits. Those changes were legislative by Republican Congresses. You will find them in the Treasury Regulations to the Internal Revenue Code and in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR's). See, those same "greed" changes in the legislative and tax policies of the Bu$h Administrations and the Republican Congresses. The chickens have now come home to roost after those racist, brain-dead, Fascist idiots put an crimimal rapist moron, Old, senile, rotting Pumpkin Head, back into the Presidency. You did this to yourselves, you rotten evil Motherfuckers!

[IronLionZion]

16. Give America Whiplash Again

[moonshinegnomie]

18. the penguins won....

[Dulcinea]

19. So this whole mess blew up in his face.

He had to backtrack. Imagine that!

[Paladin]

20. Making it up as he goes along. He doesn't have a fucking clue.

Typical...

[dchill]

22. Why not assume it's market manipulation?

Stupid. Craven. Profitable.