It's not all stopped or paused for ninety days but good god almighty what a week we've all been through with the suited baby with all the vocabulary of six year old minus the fluency crashing the markets, removing stability by the hour.
The whole business of ever increasing tariffs between China and the United States currently over 104% and 84% respectively with neither side prepared back of and agree to look into the issues around dumping things such as steel at below cost and barriers to trade through diplomatic means.
It is like watching to kids in the park threatening and counter threatening each other as the atmosphere gets uglier and uglier as one by one we all leave the park losing out.
It never really works.
In so far far as elsewhere goes, the pause is to be welcomed but even the 10% we were due to pay still would of adversely affected UK Exports and from the Jobs not least here in the Midlands with the Car and Pottery industries.
The 25% on things from the EU and the threat of retaliatory actions would impact us as we still trade a fair bit with the EU as much as post Brexit the volume has dropped by at least a third and the basis for the figures seems...muddled.
One can only hope this breather is used constructively to set up proper talks to explore with independent trade exports how these disagreements can be resolved with less damaging measures.
Governance by chaos???
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