Stand up to the bully - buy British!

valdavi

I like to buy British where I can to help with air miles on goods. To stand up to Trump though, would be more effective to NOT buy anything from the USA. We've all been deploring SE Asian goods because of sweated labour, but maybe that's a better option than buying something from Trump's USA? After all, the sooner ordinary Americans suffer because of these policies, the sooner we'll be rid of the menace that is Trump.

So you're happy to pay for cheap rubbish and keep slave labour going, but are happy to try and starve Americans into submission. Double standards or what.
No tarrifs, free trade world wide, that's the answer. Consumers benefit, through lower prices, and increase in product variety, lots to read about this, but seems much the better option. Still I know nothing. Just sick and tired of the world as it is today, including the UK.

It seems some posters have swallowed Trump’s rhetoric. It is too complex to go into here but it isn’t as simple as tit -for-tat. Along with many others, I haven’t eaten a McDonald’s for the last 50 years: eco disaster as far as I’m concerned. Also never go to Starbucks. As for Amazon, my method is to search for items on their website, find the company behind the product as it is very clearly stated and then if they are a UK company I find them through Google and buy direct. I have had conversations with small companies who are very grateful when people bypass Amazon as it costs them a lot of their revenue to sell through the US giant.

Do not visit the USA

If you need to go to North America then visit Canada.

I like to buy British where I can to help with air miles on goods. To stand up to Trump though, would be more effective to NOT buy anything from the USA. We've all been deploring SE Asian goods because of sweated labour, but maybe that's a better option than buying something from Trump's USA? After all, the sooner ordinary Americans suffer because of these policies, the sooner we'll be rid of the menace that is Trump.

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Walgreens also bought Liz Earle and the prices jumped. After 20-years of buying 'Cleanse&Polish' they priced me out of their market.
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I picked up from somebody else on Gransnet that there is an excellent Facebook group, called Buy British Made. You can search for products they have researched, today I’ve seen laundry baskets, and patio cleaners, and there are thousands of other products covered.

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You're just wanting here what Trump wants in the U.S. - to make imported goods too expensive so Americans buy American goods that are cheaper.

And, in the process, that creates more jobs for Americans.

But it's a good idea of yours for us all to just buy British goods, but not for him to want and encourage Americans to just buy American goods?

Very odd.
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I've been trying to buy British, in fact local, for a long time even before the current situation. Its just not always possible. There just aren't any British companies making or local retailers selling what I want at a price I can afford. Or I cant find a retailer locally selling the thing I need or want. Therefore I have to resort to buying online and that's almost always something imported. Even when I buy something from a local retailer I often find it was made in India or Taiwan or some such. I would stop buying USA goods but in some cases you don't even know that the company is a USA company in the first place. I just hope it all goes away in 4 years just like the jokers we have in charge here. Although, as far as UK is concerned, I can't see there's a better alternative either.

Cadburys is now owned by Mondelez an American company, which has since changed the recipe for Cadburys chocolates, (it is now has a dreadful taste) so boycotting Cadburys chocolate won't be a hardship

Asda is 10% owned by Walmart, it was sold to the Issa brothers and TDR Capital in 2021 but retained the 10%

I already try to buy British, not too easy. Trump will be history one day like everyone else. Vance seems a very controlling, cold person, he is as much a problem as Trump.

It's not tariffs as such, it's the trading deficit, hence the reason countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia etc have such high 'tariffs' imposed by USA, because Americans want to buy cheaper products. Whilst wanting to have more products made in the USA, it will take a number of years to get the manufacturing facilities in place so the American people will be paying more in the interim.
Fortunately I don't eat Macdonald's or drink coca cola, Starbucks etc I will certainly be looking to see where products are grown/canned etc to ensure they're not from the USA . I won't use X/twitter and I won't buy any American products on Amazon.

GrannyGravy13

It has just been on the ITV news that Jaguar Land Rover are halting all exports to USA.

We should be going to USA in October to stay with some of our GC’s other grandparents, we have decided not to go.

Good for them!

Allira

Yes, we charge tariffs on imports and most countries do too.

What is not clear to me is why has this caused so much economic chaos just now. Trump imposed tariffs last time he was in power; did it cause this chaos last time? Are these tariffs more widespread and stringent?

2020:
www.brookings.edu/articles/did-trumps-tariffs-benefit-american-workers-and-national-security/

Biden increased some tariffs Trump had introduced and dropped others.

What is different now?

Its the scale.

BTW, that article is very interesting as it showed tariffs were not at all the gain/gain hoped for in a number of ways.

It has just been on the ITV news that Jaguar Land Rover are halting all exports to USA.

We should be going to USA in October to stay with some of our GC’s other grandparents, we have decided not to go.

Yes, we charge tariffs on imports and most countries do too.

What is not clear to me is why has this caused so much economic chaos just now. Trump imposed tariffs last time he was in power; did it cause this chaos last time? Are these tariffs more widespread and stringent?

2020:
www.brookings.edu/articles/did-trumps-tariffs-benefit-american-workers-and-national-security/

Biden increased some tariffs Trump had introduced and dropped others.

What is different now?

ExaltedWombat

I don't know why we're making SO much fuss about this. We charge duty on imports. We call it 'VAT' rather than a 'tariff'. But it's the same thing.

No it isn't. Tariffs and VAT are not the same thing. Tariffs are import duties on goods when they first arrive in a country. VAT is a tax on goods and services, applied regardless of origin and applied all the way along the chain to the end consumer.

Galaxy

I am afraid Amazon is so good at what it does that generally people won't boycott it.

Please use OnBuy, a British ‘Amazon’ type company. When I’m tempted to use Amazon, I look at OnBuy first. Yes, the delivery may take a day or two longer and yes, occasionally my order is fulfilled via Amazon for some reason, but on the whole, OnBuy does a good job.
I recommend. WWW.onbuy.com

I don't know why we're making SO much fuss about this. We charge duty on imports. We call it 'VAT' rather than a 'tariff'. But it's the same thing.

Geordiegirl1 - What do we buy from Israel? 🤔 If I knew I’d avoid it. Fruit and veg perhaps?

I’ve posted about this recently. I’ve no interest in buying a Tesla, but I have an iPhone and an iPad.🙄 I don’t buy from coffee shops. I’ve just heard that Costa (previously Italian/British) is now owned by Coca Cola. I’d like to avoid Amazon unless I’m desperate. I’ve certainly no desire to visit America. I’d prefer to see Canada. 😎 Apparently lots of Canadians are cancelling their US ‘vacations’, i.e. holidays. 👏👏👏

You are right Petra Mercedes does have a plant just outside of Tuscaloosa Alabama. I’ve been a resident here for many many many years but that is my hometown and I can assure you that all of the jobs at Mercedes are held by residents there because Mercedes trains folks and they pay well but yes all of the parts come from other countries every single one of them including the seats. Mercedes is pretty much of an assembly plant. I need to understand more about the terrace that have been put on USA goods before a comment because quite frankly I don’t trust anything that Donald Trump does. What he’s done to retirement funds is criminal quite frankly because the majority of professionals who manage those funds are now buying T bills because stocks are extremely volatile and have gone down so much.

I think Mr. Trump is an isolationist and in the world we live in I don’t think that works very well. It’s been so embarrassing the things that he and the vice president have said about other countries and especially about the EU. Shameful!!

Perhaps boycott Israeli produce and Israeli supporting institutions in this country who help to arm them - and are Insurers of armaments.

It is reported that exports from the UK to the USA will be subject to a 10% tariff but certain products are subject to a higher tariff ie 25%.

One manufacturer of car parts who regularly exports to the USA has just had his order cancelled by the company which regularly buys from him. The parts are all crated ip and ready to go. They're worth £350,000 so his company may now fold, certainly jobs are in jeopardy.

My husband and I predominately purchase Spanish products however, never any from The Usa due to the MSG and toxic additives.

We love worldwide cheeses and during the Christmas / New Year´s Holidays we enjoy preparing Cheese Platters .. However, never cheeses from The Usa.

We never eat in any Usa Fast Food Chains.

It is a true horror what is going on in The Usa.

A crazy unempathetic, cruel and heartless criminal putting tariffs on "Penguin Islands", a felon, and a lunatic to say the least ..

It is a unbelievable !!