• UnderpantsWeevil
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    1 day ago

    How are we paying tariffs on agricultural goods we produce locally?

    • hesh@quokk.au
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      1 day ago

      Not all of our groceries are produced locally, so we pay tariffs on those. Also, increased prices for imported goods will cause inflation in the price of domestic goods.

    • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
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      We’re not. I never said we were. We’re paying tariffs on the agricultural goods that we import.

      Being net exporters doesn’t mean we import nothing.

      It means we export more than we import.

      Just because we export $101 worth of corn doesn’t mean we aren’t paying tariffs on $100 of coffee and bananas we import. But the corn producers might raise their prices anyway, because everything else going up provides cover for it.