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  • WOSU: Chinese Tariffs Could Cut Ohio Farmers' Income By More Than Half

    An Ohio State study finds that some Ohio farmers could lose more than half of their annual income if a threatened 25 percent tariff goes into effect on soybeans and corn sent to China.

    Ohio State researchers compiled data from six Ohio corn and soybean farms to create a representative Ohio farm that grows corn and soybeans.

    They estimate that the proposed 25 percent tariff on exports to China would mean a 59 percent loss in annual net income to a typical Ohio farmer. Projections show income would drop from $63,577 to $26,107, under the tariffs. That is based on historical trends in yields on corn and soybeans, and projections for price drops in both commodities.

    Soybeans are Ohio’s largest crop and the state’s top agricultural export.

    China threatened the tariffs after President Trump proposed 25 percent tariffs against Chinese exports like washing machines and medical products. Earlier, China retaliated against tariffs on steel and aluminum with limits on U.S. pork.

    That move also hit hard at Ohio farmers, who producce $600 million in pork products annually. But soybean tariffs would prove more devastating: They're Ohio's top crop, and China is the state's best buyer.

    The study predicts that, across Ohio, the loss of soybean exports to China would be an estimated $241 million annually. Every year, Ohio exports about 31 percent of the soybeans and 2 percent of the corn it produces to China.

    Ohio State says this is the first study on the impact of soybean and corn tariffs on the state.

    "There are farmers who are struggling across the state," said Ben Brown, manager of Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, in a press release.  "If the proposed tariffs go into effect, we're going to have farmers who will have to exit the industry."

    The financial losses come from an expected drop in Chinese demand for U.S. soybeans and corn, under the proposed tariff.

  • @jbluhm86 said:

    Daily Wire: Trump SAVAGES Harley Davidson For Moving Jobs Overseas In Response To His Tariffs: 'They Surrendered, They Quit!'

    bentariffs.jpg.af63d9e26768880d0109211c0fb9c579.jpg

    obamaocare directly interfered with the workings of companies.

    President Trump is actively trying to fix our gigantic give-away advantage trade deficit.

    For example - American farmers can't sell, or not much at all - their goods to the EU.

    Why? Because that gives the EU a giant advantage.

    Cars going to china? china has always put well over a 200% tariff on our cars.

    We only charge a ...2.5 was it? percent.

    That is what we have to fix, and other presidents left it alone.

    The time for us to play we-giveaway is over. It's something well over 800 BILLION

    in trade imbalance in the red.

    So, it might make you FEEL good, jblu, but the truth is, obamaocare legistlated companies, and

    PRes Trump is trying to make our giant trade imbalances around the world fair to HELP companies.

  • Yes jblu, stop feeling so much. 

  • woodypeckerhead translation:

    "I'm so ignorant, all I can do is be a woodpecker with stupid one-liners to try to

    participate in the forum, will You be my sex partner, Jblu?"

  • cal, lets not throw stones while living in glass houses k? u guys show up everyday attached at the hip and giving each other simultaneous reach arounds. 

  • only in your perverted dreams, weirdo.

  • only in your perverted dreams, weirdo.

    @calfoxwc said:

    only in your perverted dreams, weirdo.

    no u guys throat each other daily, thats a historic fact. now as to harley, they can blow me their bikes suck anyway. sadly i think victory folded, they made so much better looking bikes. heres hoping indian now makes up some more ground.

  • no, you still have it wrong. the fay woodpecker starts his crap in threads again, and only then do I

    start explaining to him that he is a pitiful consistently ignorant changer of thread subjects.

    then, he "learns" and stops for a while...

    but something sickly? inside of him makes his beak start pecking again. He doesn't know anything about anything,

    so he does is start up little bickering about posters, and not the subjects at hand. Maybe he has a learning disability.

    That would explain a lot, along with being a gay bird maybe.

  • @calfoxwc said:

    only in your perverted dreams, weirdo.

    no u guys throat each other daily, thats a historic fact. now as to harley, they can blow me their bikes suck anyway. sadly i think victory folded, they made so much better looking bikes. heres hoping indian now makes up some more ground.

    @clevfan4life said:

    no u guys throat each other daily, thats a historic fact. now as to harley, they can blow me their bikes suck anyway. sadly i think victory folded, they made so much better looking bikes. heres hoping indian now makes up some more ground.

    Buell is what is right with HD.

    XB9SX with the full smoke finish, fork sliders, select seat, frame pucks and third eye bars...      Sexy.  

  • no, you still have it wrong. the fay woodpecker starts his crap in threads again, and only then do I

    start explaining to him that he is a pitiful consistently ignorant changer of thread subjects.

    then, he "learns" and stops for a while...

    but something sickly? inside of him makes his beak start pecking again. He doesn't know anything about anything,

    so he does is start up little bickering about posters, and not the subjects at hand. Maybe he has a learning disability.

    That would explain a lot, along with being a gay bird maybe.

    @calfoxwc said:

    no, you still have it wrong. the fay woodpecker starts his crap in threads again, and only then do I

    start explaining to him that he is a pitiful consistently ignorant changer of thread subjects.

    then, he "learns" and stops for a while...

    but something sickly? inside of him makes his beak start pecking again. He doesn't know anything about anything,

    so he does is start up little bickering about posters, and not the subjects at hand. Maybe he has a learning disability.

    That would explain a lot, along with being a gay bird maybe.

    stop it woody knows more about alot of things than all of u put together, and he proves it daily. im not talking about his "opinions", those are his own and ur free to disagree. the problem is so many discussions start here on an errant foundation of facts. im not talking about msm supplued facts, i often see a blatant disregard for long established rules of classical physics. 

  • @clevfan4life said:

    no u guys throat each other daily, thats a historic fact. now as to harley, they can blow me their bikes suck anyway. sadly i think victory folded, they made so much better looking bikes. heres hoping indian now makes up some more ground.

    Buell is what is right with HD.

    XB9SX with the full smoke finish, fork sliders, select seat, frame pucks and third eye bars...      Sexy.  

    @tiamat63 said:

    Buell is what is right with HD.

    XB9SX with the full smoke finish, fork sliders, select seat, frame pucks and third eye bars...      Sexy.  

    the 2018 indian lineup gives me a legit halfie. polaris essentially merged the victory styling with the indian brand. too bad they're still as exp as harleys...ahh well. 

  • Bwahahahahahahahahaha.

  • @calfoxwc said:

    no, you still have it wrong. the fay woodpecker starts his crap in threads again, and only then do I

    start explaining to him that he is a pitiful consistently ignorant changer of thread subjects.

    then, he "learns" and stops for a while...

    but something sickly? inside of him makes his beak start pecking again. He doesn't know anything about anything,

    so he does is start up little bickering about posters, and not the subjects at hand. Maybe he has a learning disability.

    That would explain a lot, along with being a gay bird maybe.

    stop it woody knows more about alot of things than all of u put together, and he proves it daily. im not talking about his "opinions", those are his own and ur free to disagree. the problem is so many discussions start here on an errant foundation of facts. im not talking about msm supplued facts, i often see a blatant disregard for long established rules of classical physics. 

    @clevfan4life said:

    stop it woody knows more about alot of things than all of u put together, and he proves it daily. im not talking about his "opinions", those are his own and ur free to disagree. the problem is so many discussions start here on an errant foundation of facts. im not talking about msm supplued facts, i often see a blatant disregard for long established rules of classical physics. 

    Thanks, but slow down there. I'm completely serious when I say this, but we can't disregard the life experiences and knowledge that posters on here have gained. I'm admittedly less experienced, it's just a fact.

    But I do think many here have been so warped politically that common sense goes out the window to tote the party line. Throw in a constant stream / echo chamber of misinformation / alternate facts and you get this as a result. All as a marketing tool to drive clicks and get advertisers. By providing content that reaffirms beliefs and goes for certain feelings. 

    You're right though where there are posts where basic science or statistics is just clearly wrong. That's where literal established math is being shunned in order to promote the conclusion that feeds a pre established conclusion

  • https://goo.gl/images/PPbKGF

    thats my fav, it wins

  • @clevfan4life said:

    https://goo.gl/images/PPbKGF

    thats my fav, it wins

    "Lasers"

  • for as much general contempt as i have for the internet and what its become, without it i would have never seen trump photoshopped onto dr evil. just priceless sht

  • CBS MoneyWatch: Canada tariffs on $12.6B of U.S. goods take effect

    Canada has begun imposing tariffs on $12.6 billion in U.S. goods as retaliation for the Trump administration's new taxes on steel and aluminum imported to the United States. The tariffs went into effect Sunday. 

    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government released on Friday the full list of items that Canada is targeting. Some U.S. products, mostly steel and iron, face 25 percent tariffs, the same penalty the United States slapped on imported steel at the end of May. Other U.S. imports, from ketchup to pizza to dishwasher detergent, will face a 10 percent tariff at the Canadian border, the same as America's tax on imported aluminum. 

    President Donald Trump infuriated U.S. allies -- from Canada to Mexico and the European Union -- by imposing tariffs of 25 percent on imported steel and 10 percent on aluminum. Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said Friday they had no other choice and will not escalate the dispute, but also will not back down. She called the tariffs regrettable.

    Trudeau on Sunday spoke in Leamington, Ontario, where he thanked Canadians for standing united against President Donald Trump's sanctions. He urged Canadians to "make their choices accordingly" in considering whether to buy American products.

    The selection of Leamington, known as Canada's tomato capital, was deliberate. The town is home to a food-processing plant that supplies tomato paste and other products to French's, a major competitor of Kraft Heinz. Heinz left Canada and sold its Leamington plant in 2014, after 105 years of Canadian operations.

  • FoxNews 5 Cleveland: Steel tariffs starting to take toll on manufacturers in Northeast Ohio

    CLEVELAND - The cost of doing business with one commodity is creating a lot of concern in Northeast Ohio as the price of steel soars. One local manufacturer is painting a grim picture as the U.S. holds its position on imposing metal tariffs.

    "That type of cost increase is not built into our profit model," said Bill Adler, the owner of Stripmatic Products. 

    Adler said he is now paying a lot more for the material he needs to make automotive parts.

    "The markets we currently supply are probably 90 to 95 percent automotive," Adler said.

    Adler is worried about the fallout he’s already seeing and what it means long term if these tariffs stick around.

    “Our prices have increased from 25 to 50 percent depending upon the product we're buying," Adler said.

    The tariffs on steel are not only eating into profits, but stunting plans to diversify Adler’s business.

    "We have not been all that successful."

    A recent opportunity to start making parts for a different industry didn't pan out.

    "The cost of stainless with the import tariffs just disqualified us from really being one of the players and being able to make that food processing equipment," said Adler.

    That lost opportunity, along with soaring production costs, is poised to do long-term damage according to Adler.

    "It's going to affect our profits, our employee's profit sharing, their ability to get pay increases, our ability to add new people and invest in new equipment," said Adler.

    With the clock ticking, Adler is hopeful the over-saturation of foreign steel can be reigned in, and the tariffs will be rescinded.

    "The key to this is how do we find the right tool to get China to not overproduce? The import tariffs are keeping every manufacturer awake at night," said Adler.

    A recent estimate from a consulting firm predicts about 179,000 U.S. jobs could be lost, versus the 33,000 created as a result of the metal tariffs.

    The last time the U.S. imposed tariffs on steel was back in 2002. Adler said it took his company four years to fully recover.