EyeballKid
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They probably sit together in a hot tub sharing a tub of popcorn over that one.
Tariffs Catch-All
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Since he wants manufacturing and is worried about the movie industry, I wonder if he is aware of all the huge movie studies that have been built in Atlanta? May not be classic manufacturing, but they are doing a great deal. Believe CBS's new soap opera is even being filmed in a studio there, which means they are filming that show every day. Not hit or miss like movies.
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“… More moves out of Washington could be coming. Voight said in an interview Monday that the tariff announcement was “the beginning, perhaps, of changes that will be effective” and indicated there might be more to Trump’s plan.
“There’s a little bit for us to wait on,” he said. Trump met last weekend at his Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, with Voight, his manager Steven Paul and Paul’s business partner Scott Karol. The president later read up further on the issue, people familiar with the matter said.
… The trio proposed to Trump that he bring productions back to Hollywood through policies including federal tax incentives and infrastructure subsidies. They said tariffs should only be used “in certain, limited circumstances,” according to a statement they released Monday.
Trump, while flying on Air Force One, later read through news articles about how certain production companies conduct some of their business in foreign countries, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Trump later posted on Truth Social his plans for tariffs on foreign films that are seen in the U.S.…”
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The business is barely functioning in Los Angeles. Atlanta sucked up much of it, but Arizona and New Mexico have taken a big chunk of it. Texas wants in. A lot of televison production has setup around Toronto. i don't expect Trump to have nuanced view of things and probably just hears "Hollywood is dying" and applies it to teh whole industry, not just L.A.
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Trump’s Kneejerk Hollywood Fix Is No Tariff-ic Idea: Bill Mechanic Examines The Pitfalls & Tells How The Town Really Feels – Guest Column
Trump's Kneejerk Hollywood Fix Is No Tarrif-ic Idea: Bill Mechanic Tells How The Town Really Feels In guest column for Deadline
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Air Canada Adds 4 New Destinations to Latin America, 13 Routes for Winter 2025-26
Air Canada (AC) has unveiled its most expansive winter schedule to Latin America to date, featuring 16% more capacity than the previous year.
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Japan Presses U.S. to Scrap 25％ Auto Tariffs as Ishiba Refuses Partial Trade Deal; No Deal Without ‘Total Rollback’
<p>The government decided Saturday to continue to press the United States to review its extra tariffs on Japanese automobiles during bilateral talks aimed at scrapping the Trump administration’s tariff measures.</p>
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Washington has excluded automobiles and other key items from the scope of the talks. In response, Tokyo has insisted that it will make no concessions as it presses for a complete overhaul of each of the duties imposed Saturday, including those on auto parts.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on the day met at the Prime Minister’s Residence with economic revitalization minister Ryosei Akazawa, who had just returned from the second round of ministerial talks in the United States, and instructed him on the government’s next steps based on the outcome of the talks.
“There is still a wide gulf between [Japan’s and the United States’] positions, and no common ground has emerged,” Ishiba told reporters after the meeting. “We are [pushing to negotiate] all the tariffs, including those on automobiles, steel and aluminum.” Ishiba also called the new duties on auto parts “extremely regrettable” and said Japan would “continue to demand that they be reversed.”
Akazawa likewise told the press that Tokyo “has consistently requested a total rollback of the tariff package, and [the two countries] cannot reach an agreement unless that element is included.”
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“… “The price of juice is already increasing,” Christopher Gerlach, an executive at the US Apple Association, a trade group representing the domestic apple industry, tells WIRED. Gerlach estimates the wholesale cost of apple juice concentrate has risen 33 percent this year compared to 2024—and he expects it to keep going up. The higher costs will impact more than just plain apple juice, since concentrate is a key ingredient in a wide variety of other juice mixes, like mixed berry and pear, and is also used as a sweetener in a variety of children’s products, including baby food.
… The US has plenty of domestic apple farms, but the industry focuses heavily on selling fresh fruits, which are typically more profitable. Each year, America exports around 16 million gallons of apple juice, but imports 430 million gallons, Gerlach says. For many years, China was the main place where the US sourced its apple juice, but Turkey has recently emerged as a close competitor. It represented 39 percent of US concentrated apple juice imports last year, while China accounted for 31 percent, according to Gerlach.
Data from the USDA suggest that Trump’s tariffs have sparked a more dramatic shift in the US toward buying apple juice concentrate from Turkey. So far this year, Americans have imported around 92 million liters of unfrozen apple juice concentrate from China, compared to 29 million liters from Turkey. China saw a major spike in juice buying in January as importers raced to make purchases before the tariffs went into effect; now its sales have plummeted, while Turkey’s are soaring. For the week of April 25, Turkey exported more than twice as much apple juice concentrate to the US as did mainland China. …”
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At some point the more well-intentioned Republicans have to ask themselves if it is good that their leaders have to regularly deny things that are undeniably true in order to achieve their (misguided) goals.
Point is - if you have to lie about something to achieve a goal, is the goal the correct outcome to strive for?
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The slide in exports is linked to the decline in containerships coming to the U.S., as businesses across the economy cancel manufacturing orders, sending Chinese factories and freight ships into retreat, as well as changes in global demand linked to U.S. trade policy. U.S. imports continue to decline, with port data tracked by Vizion showing a 43% week-over-week drop in containers from the week of April 21 to the week of April 28.
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No worries, Pope Trump will absolve them of their sins, as soon as he is done denying that he posted the photo himself as pope.
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Exactly. If you have to lie about what you are doing, then in most cases you are admitting that what you are doing is wrong.
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surprise, surprise, Trump doesn't understand what a deal is.
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He should have asked. “Someone writes the government a check for the tariffs. Who does that?”
That removes the ambiguity around the question. And to be honest, if you want the most direct answer it isn’t the consumer so by reaching for him to say the consumer, you are already asking him to answer the question with some nuance.
Just force him to say the importer.