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Brunei & Moldova export v little to US.
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(Yesterday, 12:11 AM)watchfirst9 Wrote: Brunei & Moldova export v little to US.
Looks like the minimum is 25%, Spore could get 25%
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(09-07-2025, 11:58 PM)lvlrsSTI Wrote: The US president is posting copies of separate letters addressed to Brunei, the Philippines, Iraq, Algeria, Moldova and Libya. Each country’s letter has its own tariff rate:
30% on Algeria
25% on Brunei
30% on Iraq
30% on Libya
25% on Moldova
25% on the Philippines
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(Yesterday, 12:25 AM)lvlrsSTI Wrote: Looks like the minimum is 25%, Spore could get 25%
minimum is 10% as like UK.
I thought Sg will face 10% for general items,
but some niche one like pharma items will face 200%.
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If 200% those US drugs factory in SG how ? Ask Mr Gan KY ....
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(Yesterday, 12:11 AM)awatchfirst9 Wrote: Brunei & Moldova export v little to US.
Moldova is a very poor country. Now with tariffs it can't even attract foreign investments because nobody will go there to set up a factory to export to US.
High tariffs on small countries will lock them in poverty.
I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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No worry.
Trump always chicken out before dateline.
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This type of country based tariffs will just fail to achieve it's goal but will disrupt supply chains.
The reason is about 95% of production is intermediate goods then final assembly is somewhere else.
So lets say UK and Sg has 10% tariffs...Taiwan 30%
Malaysia has 25 and Thailand 30%.
To make a PC you need harddisk from Thailand and Intel CPU from Malaysia.
Instead of assembly from Taiwan to export to US ...you assemble in UK and export to US.....the whole thing is 10% tariffs.
You will not export to US the parts than have it assembled there because the parts now attract high tariffs.
In fact , factories be it cars of whatever US make because they need to import parts should uproot and go to UK where tariffs are lower.
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