Empty shelves fans of the pandemic era are in a gift thanks to Trump’s rates

Washington – If you enjoyed the shelves of empty stores during the Covid pandemic, there are some good news around the corner.

Thanks to the commercial war of President Donald Trump against the world and the increase in taxes of billion dollars associated with American importers, consumers will begin in weeks to see shortage of household items, consumer electronics, clothing, almost everything that enters the country from abroad, and especially those things that come from China.

The volume of products that enter the US ports. UU. It has fallen from 20 to 30%, comparable to the 25% reduction in April 2020 due to COVID, but with the additional wrinkle of the chaos of the rate rather, which makes the capacity of companies the ability to create a business plan is not impossible.

“I have been doing this 40 years, and I have never seen it that way,” said Bernie Hart, Vice President of Customs Development and Flexport Commerce, a company that corrects the authorization and logistics of Customs for Importers and Exporters.

Trump’s White House did not respond to News themezone’s consultations. Trump personally has continued to defend his commercial war in recent comments, claiming that tariffs are generating new mass income while simultaneously argues that he is looking for trade agreements that presumably would drastically reduce those income.

And even if Trump formalizes a withdrawal of suggestion in his commercial war, shortage in store chains, as well as smaller retailers, are essentially guaranteed, at least temporarily.

The problem is that, although Trump can change the course in seconds through a publication on social networks, world supply chains cannot. The majority of international trade is carried out using oceanic shipment, which, although efficient, is due to their slow nature, while the oceans are huge. A container ship that leaves the ports in China, for example, needs at least a month to cross the Pacific before reaching Los Angeles.

The secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, said Monday morning that the shortage does not worry. “We have some great retailers. I guess they reserved,” he told News.

Hart said that larger retailers have inventory stores through which they can pass, even if no replacement product is arriving. “Once he runs out, then he will begin to see shortage and empty shelves,” he said.

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Trump in his so -called “day of release” earlier this month unilaterally imposed a 10% tax on all imports, except those specifically exempt from the free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, with a greater exception of China imports. Those were taxed to 54%, but Trump increased that rate to 145% after China took reprisals with their own tariffs against US assets.

David Levi, founder of a small business in Charlottesville, Virginia, which manufactures electronics kits using components that matters mainly from China, said that under the original 54% rate of Trump’s Chinese products, he estimated that he would have to increase their prices in their $ 50 and $ 60 kits between 20 and 25% to compensate for the new import tax.

“With 145%, it is basically hibernating the company,” he said. “It will be: license my worker, turn off the lights and may find a hobby.”

Levi is among several business owners who have sued Trump in the United States International Trade Court to block the import taxes of the day of liberation, arguing that Trump does not have the authority to impose them under the 1977 law that he cited, the International Law of Emergency Economic Powers.

“It does not seem to be an emergency,” said Jeff Schwab, principal lawyer of the Liberty Justice Center, the non -profit organization that manages the case. He pointed out that the commercial deficit of the Nation, which Trump cites as a basis to declare his “emergency”, has existed for decades. “I don’t think a commercial deficit is unusual or extraordinary,” he said, citing the specific language of the law.

The interrupted supply chains caused shortage and increase prices during Covid pandemic, since companies around the world were beaten with the waves of a new deadly disease. This time, however, economic calamity is not a contagious virus, but an American president who does not seem to understand how international trade works, but based his decisions on his erroneous beliefs.

In recent days, Trump has re -expressed the statements that countries that run a commercial surplus with the United States are, by definition, “stapling”, that the European Union was created specifically to “screw” the United States and, in particular, that tariffs that impose imports are paid in some way by the export nation.

In recent interviews and publications on social networks, Trump has affirmed that the United States is collecting “billions” of dollars per day of its tariffs, and that this money is being raised from other countries.

Trump’s “billions’ statement is almost certainly very exaggerated. In any case, all US rates are collected by the US Customs. Uu. As the goods enter the entry ports and are paid by US importers. With few exceptions, these are wholesalers or manufacturers who then transmit those costs to consumers in the form of higher prices.