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Originally Posted by Maruzo
US used to be home to many foreign customers who come from all surrounding countries to purchase everyday items because we had the best prices and largest quantities.
Now there's no financial benefit and these people have stopped coming.
The chinese vendors imports to their countries directly because the tariff there are low.
Thousands of businesses are affected. Many of them closed.
What are the financial effects? You go to the wholesale district of downtown Los Angeles, and the streets that were once jammed packed with customers from all over the south american countries have all but disappeared.
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Tariffs are meant to make things (from other countries) expensive so that local items are of either equal or cheaper, driving local businesses into producing them which keeps the funds local.
As for the missing crowds in LA, most of them are leaving, hiding, etc because they're illegal aliens. People from Mexico/Canada who cross the border to do some shopping do so legally. Therefore the crackdown doesn't affect them, it actually is a great example of just how many illegals you have/had and to be very clear people from the "surrounding countries" other than the two I mentioned weren't coming to the US for shopping as you implied. No one crosses through the various other countries to come to the US "to shop" so a Panamanian isn't driving (highway 1) 3,000 km for legal entry they would fly and that's a Miami entry port with a visa and neither they or anyone else is going to pay for Chinese crap in the USA that they can purchase in their home countries for less.
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