Trump pledges to go ahead with 25% tariffs on Canada, Mexico from Saturday

The US president says he ‘may or may not’ exclude oil imports from tariffs.

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So let me get this right, if you suck the tip and placate his ego no tariffs (see china, the one he ran on) but if you dont you get them. So this isnt about american jobs/prices at all...... who could have seen this coming. Good thing he is ganna buy Greenland, you wouldnt want a country that comes together of states that wanted to be joined, its all about false power of money.
Serious question, especially if he goes through with the tariffs on Taiwan: what is the likelihood of electronics prices in EU going down, if any?
- Serious question; why would they go down?
  
  Tariffs are not meant to drive down prices, they're meant to drive UP prices of foreign goods to make domestic ones more competitive.
  
  If US imposes tariffs, China will sell less to the US (if only because not all customers will be able to afford the tariffs). It stands to reason they would want to get rid of this excess somewhere as opposed to getting stuck with unsellable goods ad infinitum. I just wonder if there would be such an excess and if they would "dump" them aliexpress style on the EU market which doesn't cost them an arm and a leg in tariffs.