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• Don’t Like Trump’s Plan for the Economy? Let’s Hear Yours (Victor Davis Hanson)
“If you don’t believe that what Donald Trump is trying to do on debt, budget, workforce, trade, then come up with a better agenda. And show why it will work and why his will fail..”
Put your proposals in the budget negotiations.
———–Why Trump will fail.
Lacks Financial LiteracyWord salad.
Opinion polls
Irrelevant.
Nobody can predict tomorrow from tea leaves.
Changing Stability is -3.
Gov. require income
“tailored deals”
“incited”
tariffs at 104 percent
escalating trade war as a form of “blackmail” and “economic bullying.”
There is, now, outrage, hysteria.
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• White House Lacks Financial Literacy – ‘Tariffs’ Show (MoA)
Trump has decreed a minimum 10% tariff on imports from every country. the natural countermeasure.
The US President promised budget revenue from tariffs of $6-$7 trillion.
No tariffs were by the way introduced against Belarus, Russia and North Korea. This because of sanction, the U.S. has allegedly no trade relation with them.
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• The Tariff Issue (Paul Craig Roberts)
Trump has spoken of returning to tariffs as the source of government revenues and abandoning the income tax.
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• USAID Operations Rebooted in Several Crisis Zones (Sp.)At least 6 previously terminated USAID programs are being revived for emergency food assistance funding in Lebanon, Syria, Somalia, Jordan, Iraq, and Ecuador, Reuters reported.
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Executive Orders
April 8, 2025
AMENDMENT TO RECIPROCAL TARIFFS AND UPDATED DUTIES AS APPLIED TO LOW-VALUE IMPORTS FROM THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINABy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2483), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby determine and order:
Section 1. Background. In Executive Order 14257 of April 2, 2025 (Regulating Imports with a Reciprocal Tariff to Rectify Trade Practices that Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods Trade Deficits), I declared a national emergency arising from conditions reflected in large and persistent annual U.S. goods trade deficits, and imposed additional ad valorem duties that I deemed necessary and appropriate to deal with that unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security and economy of the United States. Section 4(b) of Executive Order 14257 provided that “[s]hould any trading partner retaliate against the United States in response to this action through import duties on U.S. exports or other measures, I may further modify the [Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States] to increase or expand in scope the duties imposed under this order to ensure the efficacy of this action.” I further declared pursuant to Executive Order 14256 of April 2, 2025 (Further Amendment to Duties Addressing the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People’s Republic of China as Applied to Low-Value Imports) that duty-free de minimis treatment on articles described in section 2(a) of Executive Order 14195 is no longer available effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on May 2, 2025.
On April 4, 2025, the State Council Tariff Commission of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) announced that in response to Executive Order 14257, effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on April 10, 2025, a 34 percent tariff would be imposed on all goods imported into the PRC originating from the United States. Pursuant to section 4(b) of Executive Order 14257, I am ordering modification of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) and taking other actions to increase the duties imposed on the PRC in response to this retaliation. In my judgment, this modification is necessary and appropriate to effectively address the threat to the national security and economy of the United States.
Sec. 2. Tariff Increase. In recognition of the fact that the PRC has announced that it will retaliate against the United States in response to Executive Order 14257, the HTSUS shall be modified as follows. Effective with respect to goods entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on April 9, 2025:
(a) heading 9903.01.63 of the HTSUS shall be amended by deleting “34%” each place that it appears and by inserting “84%” in lieu thereof; and
(b) subdivision (v)(xiii)(10) of U.S. note 2 to subchapter III of chapter 99 of the HTSUS shall be amended by deleting “34%”, and inserting “84%” in lieu thereof.Sec. 3. De Minimis Tariff Increase. To ensure that the imposition of tariffs pursuant to section 2 of this order is not circumvented and that the purpose of Executive Order 14257 and this action is not undermined, I also deem it necessary and appropriate to:
(a) increase the ad valorem rate of duty set forth in section 2(c)(i) of Executive Order 14256 from 30 percent to 90 percent;
(b) increase the per postal item containing goods duty in section 2(c)(ii) of Executive Order 14256 that is in effect on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on May 2, 2025, and before 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on June 1, 2025, from 25 dollars to 75 dollars; and
(c) increase the per postal item containing goods duty in section 2(c)(ii) of Executive Order 14256 that is in effect on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on June 1, 2025, from 50 dollars to 150 dollars.Sec. 4. Implementation. The Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the United States Trade Representative, as applicable, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, the Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and the Chair of the International Trade Commission, are directed to take all necessary actions to implement and effectuate this order, consistent with applicable law, including through temporary suspension or amendment of regulations or notices in the Federal Register and adopting rules and regulations, and are authorized to take such actions, and to employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA, as may be necessary to implement this order. Each executive department and agency shall take all appropriate measures within its authority to implement this order.
Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.DONALD J. TRUMP
THE WHITE HOUSE,
April 8, 2025Vietnam to buy US defence, security products to tackle trade gap
By Khanh Vu
April 8, 2025
HANOI, April 8 (Reuters) – Vietnam will buy more American goods, including defence and security products, and has asked for a 45-day delay in the imposition of U.S. tariffs, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said in a statement issued late on Monday.
Hanoi will also seek faster deliveries of commercial planes that Vietnamese airlines have ordered from the U.S., Chinh said at a cabinet meeting late on Monday.
The Southeast Asian country, a major regional manufacturing base for many Western companies, last year had a trade surplus of more than $123 billion with the U.S., its largest export market.Chinh said Vietnam had asked the U.S. to delay the 46% tariff rate that U.S. President Donald Trump announced last week to allow time for negotiations.
Vietnam was seeking to “negotiate with the U.S. side for balanced and sustainable trade, in line with the interests of the two sides,” the statement said.
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro highlighted major concerns on Monday, including transhipping from China, the dumping of seafood and other goods, and intellectual property issues.… Do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around, that’s what it’s all about!
Put your left arm in, take your left arm out. Put your left arm in, and you shake …
———–Trump’s trade strategy.
Properly identify what is the problem?
Not the illusion or diversion.
Too many bonds, ($37T), or too much Interest?
Who has got the problem?
Me or you?
Who should solve the problem?
The 8% or every one?
Which problem will tariffs address?https://usafacts.org/articles/which-countries-own-the-most-us-debt/
As of April 2024, the five countries owning the most US debt are:
Japan ($1.1 trillion),
China ($749.0 billion),
the United Kingdom ($690.2 billion),
Luxembourg ($373.5 billion),
and Canada ($328.7 billion).
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Who is prepared to negotiate?
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ADM Investor Services chief economist Marc Ostwald said, commenting on the roller coaster in the markets in the wake of the tariff announcement.
The situation is characterized by hopes that one of three power players: big banks, the Fed or the administration will intervene to return stability,
Ostwald says, with an infusion of mobilized bank capital, an emergency rate cut by the Fed, or a decision to relent by Trump needed to arrest the volatility.Paul Goncharoff says, commenting on the Trump tariff salvo.
“We will still have inflation, recession will visit us all, hard assets will replace soft money, dedollarization may in fact quicken, and the heightened military tension we see around us will not fully disappear until some understanding between the China and America contingents are reached,” the Goncharoff LCC director says. “There are two players at the high table – China and the United States.
The surrounding noisy gaggle of countries are important yet in fact secondary players. We are watching the geopolitical and economic world as we knew it being re-routed in very short order – in days and not decades,” Goncharoff explained.
———–Trump insisted. The tariffs represent “an economic revolution, and we will win… we will make America great again,”, “hang tough” in anticipation of the international community’s response to his economic policies.
You hate the Trump tariff solution.
Therefore, propose your solutions for the budget negotiations.His, Trump, policies seek to revitalize domestic manufacturing, reduce dependency on foreign goods, and address trade imbalances, particularly with China.
Additionally, tariff revenue contributes to lowering the national debt, reinforcing economic sovereignty.
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• Anti-Trump Protesters In DC Rally Against Musk’s DOGE Cuts, New Tariffs (NYP)
“subject to interpretation”
“Hands Off!” rallies.
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What and who runs the American judiciary. How much longer for John Roberts?• The Roberts/Eisen Drama Just Took An Even Darker Turn… (Revolver)
Read more…
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On the Zaporizhzhia front, a fighter of the Ukrainian “International Legion” has been eliminated.▪️Sergeant Vyacheslav Kucheruk was destroyed by an FPV drone strike.
▪️He was a staunch Russophobe and a participant in the “Maidan.”
▪️In 2015-2016, he killed civilians in Donbas as part of the 8th Special Forces Regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
▪️In 2022, he was seen fighting on the Kharkiv and Kherson fronts.
▪️In spring 2024, he joined the “International Legion” of Ukraine’s military intelligence.
Kyiv Under Strikes Again
Defense on Kupyansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Lyman Fronts Collapses MS 2025.04.06WAR – Did you notice the many changes used to make war?
Psychological – Lies and secrets, hypocrisy, anti war, peace, genocide
Armaments – Booths on the ground, Mercenaries
Electronic – Drones
Economic – Tariffs, DOGE, Lawyer warfare
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• Washington Calls Kiev: The Plan Has Changed (Pacini)
“The Ukrainian Problem”
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• The Clash Between Trump and Activist Judges Is About to Go Nuclear (Margolis)————
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• Obama’s Masterclass in Gaslighting (Margolis)————-
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• US Research Highlights RT’s Role In Media Landscape (RT)
In March, the former head of RT America, Ben Swann, called on US President Donald Trump to drop restrictions that his predecessor Joe Biden imposed against several Russian media outlets, including RT and Sputnik.Read more …
———–I call this a shutdown strike.
Automaker Stellantis has confirmed it’s shutting down its assembly plant in Windsor, Ont., for two weeks, largely because of U.S. tariffs on imported vehicles. Unifor Local 444 estimates roughly 4,500 people work in various jobs and trades at the factory.https://ourfiniteworld.com/
Gail Tverberg’s prescient analysis.
Advanced Economies Are Being Pushed Toward Financial Collapse
Posted on March 31, 2025 by Gail TverbergI expect to see more government organizations disbanding.
Eliminating governmental organizations is one way of saving energy.
This is what happened when the central government of the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
I would think that parallel kinds of changes could start happening in the next few years, in many parts of the world.At some time, perhaps as soon as 2025, the European Union could collapse.
If things are going badly for many member countries, they will be less willing to support the European Union with their tax revenues.
Other organizations that seem like they could be in peril include NATO and the World Trade Organization.These are a few ways simplification might take place:
[a] High level government organizations might start disappearing. For example, the European Union might not get enough funding and would stop. Or something similar could happen to the International Monetary Fund or the World Trade Organization.
[b] Programs that we expect to be funded by the US Federal Government might be handed over completely to the states, to be funded or not, as the finances of individual states permit. Examples might include Medicare, Medicaid, and even Social Security.
[c] There could be major banking problems, perhaps simultaneously in many countries around the world. The debt bubble holding up stock markets could pop. Governments would try to compensate, but they might not be able to do enough. Or governments could inadvertently create hyperinflation if there is virtually nothing to buy with the newly printed money created to offset widespread bank failures.
[d] There could be a great deal more sharing of homes and of apartments. The current arrangement of many single people living alone, either in an apartment or a stand-alone house could be replaced by many more roommate situations. Multi-generational families living together may become more common.
[e] Healthcare may become much simpler and local. Instead of seeing an array of specialists at a distance, people may walk to a local health provider. Medications from around the world are likely to drop greatly in quantity. Government programs to care for the seriously disabled elderly seem likely to be scaled back.
[f] Universities may be slimmed down greatly. There is no point in educating a huge number of individuals who cannot get jobs requiring a university degree.
[g] The huge amount of effort that goes into taking care of lawns in the US may disappear. Instead, people will put more effort into growing crops locally. Some people may choose to raise chickens, as well.
[h] International travel for pleasure will likely disappear, except perhaps for the very rich. Even business trips will become very uncommon. The amount of goods and services transported internationally seems likely to shrink.
[i] Many types of optional activities that now take place by car may be replaced by more local versions, which will be reached by walking, or perhaps by bicycle. For example, visits to restaurants may largely disappear, but eating with nearby friends or relatives in homes may increase. Visits to churches may drop greatly, as they did during Covid-19 restrictions, but they may be replaced by groups meeting in homes. Gyms for recreation may disappear, but people may obtain more exercise from their gardens and their need to walk to appointments.
[j] Very strange political leaders may take office. One person rule takes much less energy than transporting many representatives to a central location. Some of these leaders may take over as dictators.
Cannot keep spending money that you ain’t got
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-down-third-mq-9-reaper-drone-72-hours
Houthis Down Second MQ-9 Reaper Drone In 72 Hours
US strikes against Houthis could exceed $1 billion by next week…Keep calm.
Be happy.
It’s not your peace plan or your economic plan to save the world.
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The world is falling in line with Trump’s plan
We can’t keep doing what we are doing.
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• Trump: This Is A Great Time To Get Rich (RT)
Why does the press never report that the end of income tax is also part of the plan?
———–• Why Are People So Angry About Trump’s Tariffs? (Victor Davis Hanson)
the Trump tariffs for heading us into a recession, if not depression, when the only great depression we’ve ever had was not caused by tariffs but by Wall Street?
And no president, no administration, no Congress in the past has done anything about it.
Done anything about what?
Leveling tariffs on our products that we don’t level on theirs.
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• Trump’s Tariffs Will Turn EU Economy Into ‘Decaying Corpse’ – Medvedev (RT)———-
• You Wouldn’t Want to Be Him on That Dreadful Day (Kunstler)International lawfare is about the last remaining tool in the “Globalist” kit-bag for “color revolution,” which means regime change by underhanded means, election interference being the favorite device.
• John Roberts Needs to Do His Job Already (Skeet)
We are in the midst of a judicial coup.Justice Roberts is also not so dumb as to not realize exactly what the Left is doing.
It’s obvious to everyone that they’re trying to jam Trump up in the red tape of a judicial bureaucratic nightmare to slow down or stop his agenda.
It doesn’t matter if every single case reaches the Supreme Court and every single case results in the Supreme Court siding with Trump.
Such a process can take months or years to adjudicate each case.
That’s the point.
The process is the punishment, and the Left is using it as an unconstitutional veto.
They’re hoping to string Trump along until the midterms, where they hope to regain control of Congress and launch a few dozen or so impeachment proceedings against him (about which Roberts will make zero statements about the abuse of impeachment powers).————-
What is the plan to save the world and have peace?
• Canada Will Lead The World – PM (RT)Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has condemned US President Donald Trump’s new slate of tariffs, declaring that Ottawa stands ready to become the global economic leader in place of Washington.
He delivered the remarks on Thursday as he unveiled retaliatory measures for Trump’s claimed “reciprocal” tariffs, which include an additional 25% automobile industry tariff on Canada.
Ottawa has responded by tariffing all cars and vehicle content imported from the US that is not compliant with USMCA, a cornerstone free trade pact between the US, Canada, and Mexico.
(Canada is also spending money that does not exist.
Canada need more income.)
———-Gilbert Doctorow Did not propose to Jeff Sachs, a better way of eliminating the deficits and saving the empire.
I read “the hill” article and the interview with Tucker.
Again, the killing is still going on. No help from the experts to make peace and a better world.Jeff Sachs.
Did not propose a better way of eliminating the deficits and saving the empire.
Cool invisible cape
https://x.com/simpatico771/status/1907851369798635687First you need to know the root of the problem you are trying to solve;
So the real problem is how to make the USA competitive againThe big picture, (topology).
Two system.
Trump’s Liberation Day, the tariffs war, and the rules-based global trading system,
Change will produce a Winner, (convergence),
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• President Trump Ends Duty-Free De Minimis Treatment for All Chinese Goods (CTH)The de minimis exemption has been cancelled for all products coming out of China.
There is no way for manufacturers in China, marketed into the USA, to be able to survive if they are forced to collect and organize the requirements for U.S. custom and import duties.
They will simply dissolve.
All relevant postal items containing goods that are sent through the international postal network that are valued at or under $800 and that would otherwise qualify for the de minimis exemption are subject to a duty rate of either 30% of their value or $25 per item (increasing to $50 per item after June 1, 2025).“reciprocal tariffs” ( cost of mfg in Us)
China, branded one of the “worst offenders”, (cost of mfg in China), raising total duties to at least 54%.
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• Third Parties Attempting To Derail US-Russia Talks – Putin Envoy (RT)He noted that the negotiations have been accompanied by “a lot of rumors, incorrect quotes, and incorrect interpretations.”
“A lot of people are interested in preventing the development of our relations. We are seeing a coordinated campaign in the media, attempts by various politicians to undermine the relations between Russia and the US, and attempts to distort the statements made by Russia,” the diplomat said. “It happens on a daily basis.”—————-
“There are probably 150 people who control healthcare in America …And they don’t want anything to change.”
• Dr. Oz Will Save Medicare, Strengthen Medicaid, Secure a Healthier America (DS)
help us in our mission to Make America Healthy Again.
Medicaid and Medicare are on a path that should concern all Americans.Medicare, the government-run health insurance program for seniors, will fall off a financial cliff in as little as a decade—maybe even sooner.
Meanwhile, Medicaid, the program that pays for health care for the poor, now covers more people than Medicare, placing an enormous strain on both state and federal budgets.
As a nation, we face a chronic disease epidemic, and along with it, a crisis of unsustainable rising costs, high demand, and worsening patient outcomes.
Over the past five years, Medicaid spending has surged by some 50%—another unsustainable trend that diverts funds from schools, roads, bridges, and high-speed internet.
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https://x.com/McCulloughFund?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1907511535078936726%7Ctwgr%5Ef9f35519b75e7cec3918ec25a81a31d7d2a7cd11%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2025%2F04%2Fdebt-rattle-april-4-2025%2FWATCH – Dr. Mary Talley Bowden STUNS Tucker Carlson
9 MILLION American children have received the latest COVID-19 mRNA booster shot… and no one’s talking about it.
———–In topology,
a coffee cup and a donut are considered topologically equivalent because they both have one “hole” or “genus one” and can be continuously deformed into each other.
In Convergence,
it is when two or more things come together to form a new whole,Other worst option to tariffs
more taxes
war
poverty
migration
recession/depression
Uncontrolled implosion
depopulation/genocideFurther Amendment to Duties Addressing the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People’s Republic of China as Applied to Low-Value Imports
Executive Orders
April 2, 2025
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2483), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered:Section 1. Purpose. Many shippers based in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) hide illicit substances and conceal the true contents of shipments sent to the United States through deceptive shipping practices. These shippers often avoid detection due to administration of the de minimis exemption under section 321(a)(2)(C) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1321(a)(2)(C)).
As noted in Executive Order 14195 of February 1, 2025 (Imposing Duties to Address the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People’s Republic of China), as amended by Executive Order 14228 of March 3, 2025 (Further Amendment to Duties Addressing the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People’s Republic of China), these exports play a significant role in the synthetic opioid crisis in the United States. In Executive Order 14200 of February 5, 2025 (Amendment to Duties Addressing the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People’s Republic of China), I suspended the elimination of duty-free de minimis treatment on articles described in section 2(a) of Executive Order 14195. The Secretary of Commerce has notified me that adequate systems are now in place to process and collect tariff revenue for covered goods from the PRC otherwise eligible for duty-free de minimis treatment under 19 U.S.C. 1321(a)(2)(C). Accordingly, duty-free de minimis treatment under 19 U.S.C. 1321(a)(2)(C) shall no longer be available for products of the PRC (which include products of Hong Kong) described in section 2(a) of Executive Order 14195, as amended by Executive Order 14228, including international postal packages sent to the United States through the international postal network from the PRC or Hong Kong, that are entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 am eastern daylight time on May 2, 2025. Additional duties for such imported merchandise shall be collected at the rates described in this order.
Sec. 2. Assessment of Duties on Low-Value Products of the PRC. (a) Other than articles sent to the United States through the international postal network (for which a duty is separately provided as described in subsections (b) and (c) of this section), all shipments of articles described in section 2(a) of Executive Order 14195, as amended by Executive Order 14228, that are products of the PRC or Hong Kong; that are sent to the United States; that are valued at or under 800 dollars and that would otherwise qualify for the de minimis exemption authorized in 19 U.S.C. 1321(a)(2)(C); and that are entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 am eastern daylight time on May 2, 2025, shall be entered by a party qualified to make entry under another appropriate entry type in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) operated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the Department of Homeland Security, with all applicable duties, including those imposed by section 2(a) of Executive Order 14195, as amended by Executive Order 14228, and paid in accordance with the applicable entry and payment procedures. Executive departments and agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, through CBP, shall take all necessary actions to effectuate the objectives of this order, consistent with applicable law, including through temporary suspension or amendment of regulations or notices in the Federal Register. The United States International Trade Commission shall continue to act ministerially by modifying the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS), as needed, to reflect the actions set out in this order.
(b) Imposition of Duty.
(i) All postal items containing goods described in section 2(a) of Executive Order 14195 and sent to the United States through the international postal network from the PRC or Hong Kong and transported by carriers that are valued at or under 800 dollars and that would otherwise qualify for the de minimis exemption authorized in 19 U.S.C. 1321(a)(2)(C) shall be subject to the duties described in subsection (c) of this section. In order to address the threat of the PRC’s failure to act to blunt the sustained influx of synthetic opioids into the United States, while allowing for the orderly flow of legitimate international mail, the duties imposed in subsection (c) of this section, except as required by applicable law, are imposed in lieu of any other duties that the shipments would otherwise be subject to, including the 20 percent ad valorem duty established in Executive Order 14195, as amended by Executive Order 14228; most-favored nation rates embodied in the HTSUS; and duties imposed pursuant to section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974.
(ii) CBP is authorized to require the carrier transporting the international postal package into the United States to remit payment of the duty described in subsection (c) of this section to CBP monthly or on such other periodic time frame as CBP determines appropriate, and CBP may issue regulations and guidance as necessary or appropriate to implement and enforce this requirement.
(iii) All carriers that transport international postal packages from the PRC or Hong Kong to the United States as part of or on behalf of the international postal network must report to CBP the total number of postal items containing goods and, if electing the duty rate specified in subsection (c)(i) of this section, the value of each postal item containing goods, transported per conveyance, in a timeframe and manner prescribed by CBP. CBP may require submission of documentation and information from the carrier to verify the total number and value of individual postal items containing goods to be electronically transmitted through the ACE.
(c) Duty Rates. Transportation carriers delivering shipments to the United States from the PRC or Hong Kong sent through the international postal network must collect and remit duties to CBP under the approach outlined in either subsection (c)(i) or subsection (c)(ii) of this section. Transportation carriers must apply the same duty collection methodology to all shipments; however, transportation carriers may change their collection methodology once a month or on such other periodic timeframe as CBP determines appropriate, upon providing 24-hour notice to CBP.
(i) Ad Valorem Duty. 30 percent of the value of the postal item containing goods for merchandise entered for consumption on or after 12:01 am eastern daylight time on May 2, 2025.
(ii) Specific Duty. 25 dollars per postal item containing goods for merchandise entered for consumption on or after 12:01 am eastern daylight time on May 2, 2025, and before 12:01 am eastern daylight time on June 1, 2025, and 50 dollars per postal item containing goods for merchandise entered for consumption on or after 12:01 am eastern daylight time on June 1, 2025.
(d) Bond Requirement. Any carrier that transports international postal items containing goods from the PRC or Hong Kong to the United States, by any mode of transportation, must have an international carrier bond to ensure payment of the duty described in subsections (b) and (c) of this section. CBP is authorized to ensure that the international carrier bonds required by this subsection are sufficient to account for the duty described in subsections (b) and (c) of this section.
(e) Discretion to Require Formal Entry. CBP may require formal entry, in accordance with existing regulations, for any international postal package that may otherwise be subject to the duty described in subsections (b) and (c) of this section. An international postal package for which CBP requires formal entry will not be subject to the duty described in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, and instead will be subject to all applicable duties, taxes, and fees in accordance with all applicable laws.
Sec. 3. Implementation of Duty. The Secretary of Homeland Security is directed to take all necessary actions to implement this order. Consistent with section 4 of Executive Order 14195, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Commerce, is authorized to take such actions, including adopting rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to implement this order.
Sec. 4. Homeland Security Authorities. Nothing in this order limits the ability of the Department of Homeland Security to use any available legal authorities granted to ensure compliance with the provisions of this order.
Sec. 5. Monitoring. Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the United States Trade Representative, shall submit a report to the President regarding the impact of this order on American industries, consumers, and supply chains and making recommendations for further action as he deems necessary, including a recommendation on whether extending de minimis ineligibility to packages from Macau is necessary to prevent circumvention of this order.
Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
DONALD J. TRUMP
THE WHITE HOUSE,
April 2, 2025.Fact Checking:
If you got no money/loan then you will do without.
Global Tariffs will be paid by those people who will borrow/go into debt or spend their saving to pay.You hate Trump and his “Tariff war” solution.
Therefore, Propose something that will be better and solve the $36 Trillion problem.‘Liberation Day’ . Tariff War. Just another Secret War
I made/changed the rules, now, pay up. The president’s executive orders.
My way or the highway.
Passthrough passes of tariffs
You left the USA for profits, so now, come back or pay up.
You couldn’t exploit the US workers anymore and went to Asia to exploit, now, its time to come back.Secrets and Lies can be expensive.
———–Depopulation. Genocide. Just another Secret War
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been behind the push for America to destroy Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Iran.
America has been Netanyahu’s pawn for decades.An attack by B-2 bombers on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure would destroy the targeted sites, and unleash radioactivity endangering the lives of tens of millions in Iran and hundreds of millions beyond.
Due to radioactive drift, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, eastern Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan also would be severely impacted.
In practical terms, given proximity to Iran, and the direction of the wind, high levels of radiation-induced illness, some fatal, and sharp increases in cancer and birth defects would occur.
Radiation would contaminate and ruin food supplies, agricultural land, farm animals, and water resources hundreds and even thousands of miles from Iran.The eastern regions of Turkey, northwestern India, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan would be exposed to moderate contamination.
Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Egypt’s Sinai could be affected, depending on the wind.
Israel has long fanned existential fears by conjuring the threat of a nuclear attack by Iran, while being indemnified by the U.S. for its self-styled “defensive” aggression in Gaza, where at least 50,000 Gazans have been killed and over a million Palestinians driven from their homes.
While the widely publicized intent of President Trump to bomb Iran imperils Iran and neighboring countries, it also makes Israel vulnerable to a massive counterstrike from Iran and puts in the bullseye all U.S. troops in the region within 2,500 miles of Iran.
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Just another Secret War
• Unconquerable Yemen (Pepe Escobar)soon it becomes clear that Yemen is fighting yet another lethal chapter, now against the Trump 2.0-led CENTCOM, of what is a 10-year war, initiated in March 26, 2015.
“in which all the rich Arab countries” (with the exception of Oman) stood “under the cloak of the most powerful imperialist country in an unsacred coalition against the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula”.
A trademark “coalition” of willing vassals, led by Saudi Arabia and for a stretch also the UAE, with the U.S. under the Obama-Biden racket “leading from behind” and providing the weapons alongside the British, not only bombed Yemen indiscriminately but also imposed a devastating blockade of air, land and sea, preventing the arrival of medicine, fuel and food, and generating at least 2.4 million displaced people and a cholera epidemic.
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Just another secret.• Unearthed FBI Chat Logs Reveal ‘Gag Order’ On Biden Laptop Exposé (HUSA)
The chat logs, published Tuesday by the House Judiciary Committee on X, show that the gag order extended to an FBI analyst who attempted to alert social media companies that the laptop was authentic—before these companies moved to censor the story’s spread.
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Just another secret.“NGO” and “money-laundering” are almost synonymous.”
• Elon Musk Calls For Arrest Of ‘Fake NGO’ Leaders (NYP)
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Just another secret.• Democrats Attack Musk and Everything that They Once Believed in (Turley)
“Age of Rage”, it is common for people to become the very thing that they despise in others, jettisoning their most cherished values to strike out at those they hate.
Since the election, Democrats have shown that very self-destructive quality of rage in adopting anti-immigrant, anti-free speech, anti-labor, and even anti-environmental positions to get at Donald Trump or his supporters.
It consumes every part of a person.
It is addictive, and it is contagious.
What these rage addicts will not admit, however, is that they like it; they need it.Many Democrats seem to have lost a capacity for shame.
They are disgusted only by the refusal of others to yield to their demands, not the use of any means to achieve political ends.
The question is, what do Democrats like Fahy now stand for when everything they are is now defined by those they hate?
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Regulating Imports with a Reciprocal Tariff to Rectify Trade Practices that Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods Trade Deficits
Presidential Actions, Executive Orders April 2, 2025https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/
Regulating Imports with a Reciprocal Tariff to Rectify Trade Practices that Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods Trade Deficits
Presidential Actions, Executive Orders April 2, 2025Deepseek must be interfering and acting like a Ouija Board to stop/control what I can communicate.
The Ouija Board, or the talking board, is simply a flat board that contains a specific pattern of numbers and letters that can, in theory, be used to talk to the dead.
The Ouija board is often tied to the occult.• DOGE Finds Massive Social Security Fraud Scheme (ZH)
https://x.com/america/status/1906888422498722196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1906888422498722196%7Ctwgr%5Ebaa4ce42648c923fe6fef85f6a2f4c972fab9db8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2025%2F04%2Fdebt-rattle-april-2-2025%2Fone Wisconsin voter asked Musk: “You found a lot of fraud in Social Security. Do you know whether the Attorney General will investigate and prosecute that fraud?”
Musk responded: “I believe someone is going to be arrested tomorrow, because there’s someone who actually stole 400,000 Social Security numbers and personal information from the Social Security database… And was selling Social Security numbers and all the identification information in order for people to basically steal money from Social Security.” “This is a particular avenue of fraud for illegal immigrants and voter fraud – because the main way identification is established in the US is via Social Security. If you comprise the Social Security system, you can basically get people to get defacto registered to vote – even if they’re not citizens – and get a bunch of benefits and to milk the system – this is pretty insane,” Musk said.
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• USAID and the Architecture of Perception (Stylman)
No domain is untouched – markets, tech, culture, health, and obviously, media – and you’ll find the same design. Intelligence agencies are deeply embedded in each domain because shaping how we perceive reality is more powerful than controlling reality itself Just as fiat currency replaced real value with declared value, we now see the same pattern everywhere: fiat science replaces inquiry with predetermined conclusions, fiat culture replaces organic development with curated influence, fiat history replaces lived experience with manufactured narratives. We live in an era of fiat everything – where reality itself is declared, not discovered. And just as they create artificial scarcity in monetary systems, they manufacture false choices everywhere else – presenting us with artificial binaries that obscure the true complexity of our world.
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https://x.com/ivan_8848/status/1906842335696011626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1906842335696011626%7Ctwgr%5Ebaa4ce42648c923fe6fef85f6a2f4c972fab9db8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2025%2F04%2Fdebt-rattle-april-2-2025%2FProf. Jeffrey Sachs: I’m speaking of Netanyahu.
He is a mass murderer.
He is a killer.
He commits war crimes.
And he has control over American foreign policy and over American domestic policy now.
That’s the fact. The U.S. government is run by Israel, by the Israeli government.
Why and how, it’s a little hard to say, but it is the unbelievable fact that this brazenness, this recklessness, this cruelty, this arrogance from this extremist Israeli government controls American policy vis-a-vis speech in the United States now.
It’s shocking but true.
————A.I. abilities required for rebuilding a better society
SAGE is better/less painful than bankruptcy. (a controlled demolition.)
SAGE is cutting gov. expenses and with increasing cost/taxes/tariffs for buyers of imports.
SAGE and tariffs will attack $36 T debt.
SAGE and tariffs will have lots of unintended consequences.Peace demonstrations are labeled antisemitism.
https://www.highereddive.com/news/harvard-university-faces-9b-federal-funding-review/744029/
The Trump administration is reviewing billions of dollars in federal grants and contracts to Harvard University over what it claimed was a failure to protect Jewish students from antisemitism.MOTIVATORS, MANIPULATORS, ILLUSION
Words are meant to manipulate your thinking, and to motivate your action, and to accepting/doing/approving, what I do.
Watch what I do.
Peace, War.
Hate, Love.
Action, Inaction.
MUSK, WHISTLEBLOWER
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https://x.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1906738799557898447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1906738799557898447%7Ctwgr%5Ed4ec31447e741174487540d5890cf7e7e9fa83ec%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2025%2F04%2Fdebt-rattle-april-1-2025%2FNYT story confirms what we already knew: The Pentagon and the CIA have been running almost every aspect of the Ukrainian military for the entire war.
US provided targeting data for inside Russia and Biden lied to America about US boots on the ground.
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https://www.kunstler.com/p/convergence-calling
• Convergence Calling (James Howard Kunstler)https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html
Jeff Childers gives us the gist of the New York Times abandonment of the ruling lie. https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/narrative-whiplash-sunday-march-30
• Deep State Uses NY Times to Announce Its Withdrawal from Ukraine (PCR)————
lawfare – legal battles – words
• Le Pen Conviction ‘A Very Big Deal’ – Trump (RT)
• Le Pen Sentence a ‘Declaration of War by Brussels’ – Salvini (RT)Le Pen has been a prominent critic of NATO’s policies in Eastern Europe and has opposed Ukraine’s accession to the military bloc.
She has also advocated against the EU’s anti-Russia policies.
In the 2022 presidential election, she advanced to a runoff against Macron, securing around 41.5% of the vote. Earlier this year, polls suggested that Le Pen would secure 61% of the vote against her main rival in the upcoming presidential election.
The conviction of Le Pen and the disqualification of Georgescu occur amid an emergence of political movements across the EU opposed to the bloc’s policies.
A number of French and foreign politicians have condemned the court’s ruling as undemocratic.
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ILLUSION OF CEASEFIRE – PATH TO PEACE———–
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• Current Status: FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino (CTH)
• Transactional Weakness Tips The Balance of Power (Alastair Crooke)———-
• Gold in Hyperdrive in Hyper-Levered House of Cards – Bill Holter (USAW)“DOGE is basically exposing that the United States is corrupt and a shitty place to do business.”
DOGE and all of this slush money being paid out.
Look at the 14 magic money machines that Elon Musk has found.
All this money being spewed into the economy registers as GDP.
So, if you shut those spigots off, you are shutting off the money, and the real economy slows down.
What you are doing is cutting off new money to the Ponzi scheme, and no Ponzi scheme can survive without continually getting new money coming into it.”
Holter also says, “The United States was considered for years and years the safe haven because of its pristine rule of law.
When you pull the curtain back and everything is rotten, confidence breaks.
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https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/spanish-fluke-repeat-covid-jabs-provoke-two-kinds-inferior-antibodies
• Repeat COVID Vaccines Provoke Two Kinds Of Inferior Antibodies (JTN)—————–
TAE is a projection from a two-dimensional surface
The “holographic universe” theory proposes that our three-dimensional reality might be a projection from a two-dimensional surface, much like a hologram, and is encoded with information.
