美国总统特朗普终于签署了关税文件,对美国进口的钢铁和铝分别征收25%和10%的关税,关税将在15天内开征。邻国加拿大及墨西哥获得豁免,但仍以北美自贸谈判为条件。关税提案较之前有所放宽,但仍是美国贸易战打响第一枪。文件签署后,来自巴西、加拿大、新西兰及法国等国的政要均表示反对,美国参众两院的国会议员也提出异议。
但是,我們問一問,為何美國鋼鐵和鋁的使用者,不使用本土的钢铁和铝,反而多使用外國的?
要知道,這些外國產品通過遠洋運輸,理論上成本會比國內還多上一筆才對呀?
這顯示以售價和質量綜合考慮,美國本土的钢铁和铝業製造者比不上外國同業。
提高關稅的結果,就是钢铁和铝的使用者需支付更高的費用,使得製成品價格提高,消費者必須支付更高的價格。
製造品售價提高,會使得相關生產商面臨更大的競爭壓力。
所以特朗普政策不論會不會惠及本土的钢铁和铝業製造者,但結果都是全民買單。
各層面來看,到底美國人民受益多?還是受損多呢?
市場價格提高也使得利率加快上升,加快美國泡沫經濟的崩潰。
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what trump is doing now is right, other people only see one sided story, and have not taken into acount of complete picture happening in national economy.other countries have not been fair in trade, and are more protectionist in place,without you noticing it,like hide taxes,sale taxes ,etc, for example ,red China.
2018-03-10 12:55
Donald Duck is an idiot !
What is the root problem ?
Household income 5000 RMB is a middle class in China, just like middle class in US need 5000 USD. Middle class spending is the the driver for any economies.
US was able to enjoy high quality of life at the expense and exploitation of others. But US has no more added advantage over the rest of the world now especially when it has to compete with emerging countries like China.
Minimum wage for China 13 RMB per hour.
Minimum wage for US 13 USD per hour.
Trade union in US kills all investment from foreign countries.
China has no such problem.
Cost for doing business is very much less in China, talk of land cost, labour cost, insurance, transport (except petrol), energy cost, legal cost etc.
US has no more technological advantage when come to industrial products for civilian usage.
Nanochips technology no more monopolized by Intel.
Many western countries, China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan have developed their own nano-technology equally advance compared with US product.
You should take note most of the so-called US product like Intel, Western Digital etc are not manufactured in US but in countries like Malaysia, Thailand and China.
Similar product bearing same brand name with same quality when it is manufactured in US is 6 time more expensive than those manufactured in China.
Apple with Apple, solar panel with solar panel, steel with steel, what is produced by Donald Duck cannot compete with what is produced by Xi Jinping.
How to overcome this problem?
Why US was able to enjoy working less with higher income?
Still can remember once 40" plasma TV selling at RM 13,000 ?
Still can remember one bottle-size Motorola mobile phone selling at RM 23,000 ?
Those days are over.
So Donald Duck must come back to real world of today.
In order to save US economy, US citizen must prepare to work harder for lesser pay.
Instead of 13 USD per hour, Donald Duck should reduce it to 6.5 USD per hour.
If on everage every household earns 2500 USD per month, earning 3000 USD a month is good to be middle class in US. That is still earning 3 times more than the Chinese workers.
If Chinese workers can survive on 13 RMB minimum wage, no reason why US workers cannot survive cannot on a 6.5 USD hourly wage?
2018-03-10 16:17
zoozooka
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2018-03-10 11:35