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Tariffs helping to cause inflation...

HoustonHusky
HoustonHusky Member Posts: 6,023


https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-29/ive-never-seen-anything-china-reels-pork-prices-explode-record-levels

The 27% surge in pork prices - a core component of the Chinese CPI basket - lifted the headline inflation index by 0.59%. It could not have come at a worse time: due to the trade war between the US and China, Beijing's tariffs on U.S. pork have increased prices of American meat.

Traditionally, Chinese people typically eat far more pork than other meat; in fact China is the single biggest consumer of pork in the world. However, a customer at a wholesale market in Beijing told the WSJ her family was now eating more chicken than pork. Indeed, as pork prices rise to levels that are prohibitively high for many, consumers are changing their buying habits, pushing up prices for other meat. Chicken breast is about 20% more expensive than a year ago, while duck breast has nearly tripled in price to 14,600 yuan (US$2,125) a tonne, making duck farmers into overnight millionaires.
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  • GDS
    GDS Member Posts: 1,470
    You think the tariffs are to blame for swine flu which is raging in China? Wow...
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,915 Standard Supporter
    GDS said:

    You think the tariffs are to blame for swine flu which is raging in China? Wow...

    The tariffs caused the typhus and plague in CD's backyard.

  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 18,069 Standard Supporter
    Keep rooting for the away team. You do know that the internet has more than Hardcore Husky? You should try it out sometime. Enter pork African swine fever in this search engine called "Google". Then get back to us with your apology. Tariffs will impact US prices. In this case, you are either being used or being stupid. Try to avoid both. If you don't think that we should have fair trade with China and that we should allow their continued intellectual property theft. Then just say so. I don't. Trump doesn't. Every dem presidential candidate does. Pick a side. I usually go with the home team.
  • HoustonHusky
    HoustonHusky Member Posts: 6,023
    GDS said:

    You think the tariffs are to blame for swine flu which is raging in China? Wow...

    No fucktard. I said "helping". As does the article. You going HondoFS on us?

  • Bendintheriver
    Bendintheriver Member Posts: 7,251 Standard Supporter

    GDS said:

    You think the tariffs are to blame for swine flu which is raging in China? Wow...

    No fucktard. I said "helping". As does the article. You going HondoFS on us?

    "going"? More like, or maybe I should say, exactly like "gone".
  • HustlinOwl
    HustlinOwl Member Posts: 953
    The tariffs in 2016 must have really been a kick in the balls.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,915 Standard Supporter
    Nobody noticed the graph is about Chinese porking?

  • GDS
    GDS Member Posts: 1,470

    GDS said:

    You think the tariffs are to blame for swine flu which is raging in China? Wow...

    No fucktard. I said "helping". As does the article. You going HondoFS on us?

    The rise is Chinese pork prices is because they are eventually going to have to cull 80% of their pigs. Tangentially that’s also what’s allowing them to essentially cut off all us soybean purchases. The double whammy with tariffs is what is killing US farmers.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,915 Standard Supporter
    GDS said:

    GDS said:

    You think the tariffs are to blame for swine flu which is raging in China? Wow...

    No fucktard. I said "helping". As does the article. You going HondoFS on us?

    The rise is Chinese pork prices is because they are eventually going to have to cull 80% of their pigs. Tangentially that’s also what’s allowing them to essentially cut off all us soybean purchases. The double whammy with tariffs is what is killing US farmers.


    Buy buy buy
  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 38,838 Standard Supporter
    edited August 2019
    Saw lots of cheap pork in the stores week! Ribs on the smoker!