• MTK@lemmy.world
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    Lol, one visit to Vietnam can easily show you why an SUV is not going to be a hit there. It’s basically motorcycle country. Cars are pretty common too, but motorcycles are basically THE form of transportation there.

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      I’m in Hanoi right now. Theres quite a few SUVs and crossovers. Maybe between 1:4 and 1:8 cars to bikes.

      Mostly Kias and Toyotas, I saw 1 Ford Explorer.

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      And their streets are narrow, especially in the French quarter of Hanoi and other older areas. The vehicles in use currently are often very small to make it easier to navigate the narrow roads (and street/laneway parking) and like you mention - the scooters, which are like 90% of vehicle traffic.

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    So he’s putting tariffs on Vietnamese imports but exports are unburdened… So he’s basically creating a trade deficit? The thing he railed against months ago?

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      I don’t think i follow your logic, theoretically this would reduce the trade deficit. The US would be importing less from Vietnam because the people in the US have to pay 20% more, and the US would be exporting more to Vietnam as the price of the US good would be cheaper then they were before with no duties.

      The US would be exporting more and importing less so the trade deficit will go down.

      I don’t think that’s how it will work on reality as even with that 20% goods produced in Vietnam will still be cheaper then those made in the US. Same with US goods in Vietnam, where even if they don’t cost any more then the equivalent Vietnamese good due to tarrifs, they’ll still cost a lot more due to labor and shipping costs.

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      9 hours ago

      I stopped trying to make sense of fascist’s activities based on policy, morality, or even consistency, and now see them as doing or saying whatever is most advantageous at the time, even if it directly contradicts their previous assertions. Now their actions almost always make sense and are very predictable.

      You can’t reason with people like this, only maneuver them into a position where what you want is also most beneficial (or least detrimental) for them.

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      10 hours ago

      The worm eats well done steak with ketchup. Statistically he should have choked many times.

      *I have zero data to back this claim, just an assumption that it would be more likely to choke on shoe leather

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    11 hours ago

    “I hate communists!” except the one that buy my Large Engine Vroom Vrooms. Thank you for your attention on this matter.

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    I have never once heard anyone ever refer to an SUV as a ‘Large Engine Vehicle’. Am I just unaware, or is this trump being a complete idiot again?

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      The term large engine vehicle sounds like came from the same guy that coined big dick energy

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      He didn’t actually say this, someone with access to his TS/Twitter account did. They don’t know wtf SUV stands for and probably made it up.

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        So they also have to imitate his illiterate misuse of title case for Important Words, random quotation marks for “emphasis”, and littering of SHOUTY WORDS, not to mention his bizarre self-aggrandized tone and his ridiculous ways of ending messages that he thinks makes them look more important? Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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            Debatable who’s using Titlecase improperly, the Ones actually using it to convey Meaning and structure a Sentence, or the Ones afraid of Capitalisation and Compoundwords slightly longer than Banana. #Mikrofonfallenlassgeräusch

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              Live Winnie The Pooh:

              “When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”

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      13 hours ago

      I’d say it is an obvious way to try to confuse BEV with LEV… To sell more ICE-cars…

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    Yes, the country known for driving scooters instead of cars will start buying SUVs that don’t even fit the streets in many cities

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            11 hours ago

            *banh mi

            But yes, so very delicious. So fresh too.

            SUVs won’t work in Vietnam, not when you have Grab and scooters everywhere. It might become a rich person thing to drive around in those awful yank tanks but that’s hardly a market.

            This just sounds like the VN government is just making a nothing deal sound good for Trump. Americans paying tariffs for incoming VN products versus Vietnamese paying nothing for incoming American SUVs? A product that most Vietnamese won’t find useful at all?

            Ugh.

            I want some bread now…

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              11 hours ago

              Oops, wrong spelling!

              But uh, yeah, I agree, Trump got played, SUVs will take off in Vietnam as well as McDonalds did.

              Trump is an actual idiot.

              Not like, ad hom insult idiot.

              He is just actually an idiot.

              He still doesn’t understand what a trade balance even is, or that services/digital goods we export aren’t part of that number.

              He’s a spoiled brat that’s gotten as far as he has by being an abusive narcissist who csn just buy his way out of everything with daddy’s money.

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              Literally banh mis and other Vietnamese basically street food, pho, stuff like that, is why McDonalds didn’t take off.

              Vietnam has some truly tasty and cost effective cuisine, and McDonalds was largely only eaten by corpo types just as a flex of how much money they have.

              Its less nutritious, less tasty, and more expensive than what the Vietnamese have been eating for 100s, 1000s of years.

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        11 hours ago

        …what? Being good off-road, or on bad roads, is [supposed to be] the entire point of SUVs.

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          They’re just a classification meant to evade certain regulations to sell worse cars based on a few metrics regarding things like clearance. Given the point is to avoid having to make a decent car…

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          @grue yeah, so the commercials say. The ones I’ve driven haven’t been particularly better than sedans except higher clearance… making them more likely to rollover or break axles instead of scrape oil pans.

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      don’t be surprised when the capitalists see this obvious issue as an “opportunity” for development of bigger streets etc. ie: profit.

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    Why would Vietnam be paying the tariff on Vietnamese goods going into the US? I swear the definition of a tariff changes every time I see it mentioned.

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      He’s always said that tariffs are paid by the exporting country to the importing country. He’s wrong of course, but at least he’s consistent.

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        It’s not wrong, it’s a lie. He does absolutely know how tariffs work, but he also knows that most Americans don’t, I can promise you, if you ask a dozen random strangers who pays the tariffs, you will end up hearing the presidents words.

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    I’m so confused? Why would Vietnam agree to a one sided “free” trade agreement.

    Assuming trump has wildly oversimplified the details to sound better than they are.

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      I suspect they are “caving” a lot like Mexico and Canada “caved” earlier-the request made is already fulfilled.

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      Because they get cheaper tariffs on exports to the US, in the knowledge that they don’t want to import much at all from the US, so it makes Trump think he has something when he has nothing.

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      For Vietnam a bad deal is probably better than no deal. But also, don’t believe anything Trump says.

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      Some countries are caving to US on war. Some on trade. VN was threatened with 46% tariffs. The 40% transhipment rate is something easily avoided. I doubt VN will import more from US. VN making a deal can still provide best value apparel to US

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      US goods will be cheaper in Vietnam compared to other countries in the region. US companies will be more likely to invest in Vietnam compared to other countries in the region. If 20% is low relative to where their regional competitors end up it’s not a bad deal. I don’t think a lot of US produced goods compete with local products so its not likely to cause domestic industry much problems.