US Tariff War

[inchy14]

The large tech firms such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, X or Twitter what ever it’s called. Amazon, get your coke from Aldi and not buy the branded stuff.

Don’t drink Coke, eat MD or KFC not on Facebook or X, will stop buying Nike running gear and look for an alternative but NB and UA are both US owned too I think and the Karimor stuff is shite.

Have to make what I’ve got last, which was something I’d decided to do anyway this year as I realised I have way too much stuff like clothing and wanted to go the whole year without buying anything new.

 

[KS55]

For starters: Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Walmart, Tesla, Visa, McDonalds, Mastercard, Coca Cola, IBM, Nike, Starbucks, Ford, Dell, Adobe, KFC, American Express, Dell, Citibank, Gillette, Colgate, Adobe, Proctor & Gamble, Costco, Fedex, Uber, Oracle, Cisco, Intel, Facebook, Disney, Pepsi, Netflix.​

Choose a brand that you can do without and stop using them...completely.

Cadbury Kraft now manufacture quite a lot in USA and export to us, the cheeky bastards.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

The large tech firms such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, X or Twitter what ever it’s called. Amazon, get your coke from Aldi and not buy the branded stuff.

Unfortunately, that’s 50% of our economy there and then.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

The FT is saying the way the tariff rates were calculated was actually nothing to do with tariffs imposed on the US. It was just to take the net import/export number and divide that by the amount the US imported. So Bangladesh has trade deficit of 6.2 Billion divide that by 8.4 Billion of goods imported by the US = 74% “tariff”. It really is that stupid.

And the administration is saying this is the best way to do it because it is the “sum of all the cheating and currency manipulation”.

I would say it is the sum of US companies benefiting from cheap raw materials from places like Cambodia which they are using to create low priced products for their own consumers.

You know why Cambodia doesn’t buy much back from the US? Because it’s fucking poor that’s why, people aren’t demanding the import of Teslas or Levi’s jeans on the streets of Phnom Penh. The average salary there is like $200 a week.

The whole thing is just the weirdest and most arbitrary act of self-harm I’ve ever seen.

 

[Kompany Car]

For starters: Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Walmart, Tesla, Visa, McDonalds, Mastercard, Coca Cola, IBM, Nike, Starbucks, Ford, Dell, Adobe, KFC, American Express, Dell, Citibank, Gillette, Colgate, Adobe, Proctor & Gamble, Costco, Fedex, Uber, Oracle, Cisco, Intel, Facebook, Disney, Pepsi, Netflix.​

Choose a brand that you can do without and stop using them...completely.

You’d struggle with most of the tech companies. What option is there other than Apple or Google (Android) for your mobile phone.

Loads of systems in medical environments and obviously nearly every company uses Microsoft. The CPU in pretty much every computer is Intel or AMD (owned by Blackrock Inc). Cisco is the industry standard for networking. Other than VISA, Mastercard and Amex who else is there with credit cards that people accept ? Diners Club (Canadian) but you will struggle to find anyone outside of Canada who accepts it.

It’s exceptionally difficult to decouple yourself from American ownership. Even if you do in many cases you are just trading one extreme regime (USA) for another (China).

 

[Gogootz]

For starters: Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Walmart, Tesla, Visa, McDonalds, Mastercard, Coca Cola, IBM, Nike, Starbucks, Ford, Dell, Adobe, KFC, American Express, Dell, Citibank, Gillette, Colgate, Adobe, Proctor & Gamble, Costco, Fedex, Uber, Oracle, Cisco, Intel, Facebook, Disney, Pepsi, Netflix.​

Choose a brand that you can do without and stop using them...completely.

I need Adobe for my work and if there were a truly viable alternative (free or paid) I'll jump immediately - however I threatened to cancel my Adobe contract yesterday and they offered me half price for 12 months

 

[BlueHammer85]

Keep reading boycott US goods but do we really know what constitutes US?

McDonald’s
KFC
Nike

There’s Chevrolet too but I ain’t in the market for a new car anyway.

After that I’d struggle.

Amazon

but youngsters aren't going to boycott any of those things and i still love a KFC.

only one that's working is Tesla.

 

[inchy14]

Amazon

but youngsters aren't going to boycott any of those things and i still love a KFC.

only one that's working is Tesla.

Imagine your running times if you avoided KFC…..

 

[bluemonkey71]

For starters: Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Walmart, Tesla, Visa, McDonalds, Mastercard, Coca Cola, IBM, Nike, Starbucks, Ford, Dell, Adobe, KFC, American Express, Dell, Citibank, Gillette, Colgate, Adobe, Proctor & Gamble, Costco, Fedex, Uber, Oracle, Cisco, Intel, Facebook, Disney, Pepsi, Netflix.​

Choose a brand that you can do without and stop using them...completely.

Hold on I work for one of them..... :)

 

[Scoobz3]

Hit them with a UK turnover tax !

 

[Kompany Car]

Hold on I work for one of them..... :)

Well I think you should do the right thing as a proud Englishman and tell them you can no longer support working for a business which benefits the orange man.

It might make you poorer but you can feel better in yourself on your way to the job centre :-)

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Don’t drink Coke, eat MD or KFC not on Facebook or X, will stop buying Nike running gear and look for an alternative but NB and UA are both US owned too I think and the Karimor stuff is shite.

Adidas, Asics, Puma, there's loads of stuff out there.

 

[BlueHammer85]

interesting that interest rates likely to go down further since the tarrif announcment.

 

[threespires]

Adidas, Asics, Puma, there's loads of stuff out there.

I while back I bought a pair of Asics court shoes and they were the comfiest trainers I've bought for a long time (important when you're an apprentice FOC!) have bought a couple of other pairs equally good so have mostly binned off the other brands now.

 

[KS55]

Hold on I work for one of them..... :)

The US economy is a vast global machine. You can’t avoid it. I have a local hospital appointment tomorrow. The hospital is choc full of American products from data systems to medical machines or their parts.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Maybe this view is simplistic, i hold my hands up to being a million miles from any sort of expert..

With these worldwide tariffs that the silly **** is throwing about, wont the consumers ultimately seek alternatives and buy from other countries ?

 

[AlexWilliamsGloves]

Sorry if already covered, i couldnt see specifically....

But as the likes of KFC and McD's are franchises...how much (what %) of each branches earnings/profits go back to "Colonel Sanders" and "Ronald McDonald"?

Would the impact on the local franchisee and local employees not be much more detrimental?

 

[Ducado]

It's an old fashioned shakedown nothing more nothing less, now the world has got to make a decision either grovel to him or draw a line in the sand and stand up to him, if they don't he will be back for more

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Hold on I work for one of them..... :)

D’ye want fries with that?

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Sorry if already covered, i couldnt see specifically....

But as the likes of KFC and McD's are franchises...how much (what %) of each branches earnings/profits go back to "Colonel Sanders" and "Ronald McDonald"?

Would the impact on the local franchisee and local employees not be much more detrimental?

I’d imagine large tech like phones and cars and airplanes etc. would hit them more.

I’ve heard, although bi haven’t fact checked it myself yet, that pharmaceutical companies here are exempt from these tariffs.

Did anyone else hear the same.?