John Emont
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first heard May 2025
last heard 18 Aug
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WSJ What’s News · Chips, Juice and Airplanes - Exemptions Confuse as Tariffs Kick In · 7 Aug 2025
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And so inevitably, countries that are quite poor can't buy a lot of U.S.
products.
And so they tend to have trade surpluses with the U.S., right?
So I think that's one reason why they're getting targeted the most.
Sometimes it definitely feels a little bit confounding.
Like, why would we be punishing Lesotho?
Other times, it maybe makes a little bit more sense, you know, if you adopt sort of a Trumpian frame of mind.
Like, for example, if you take India, right, which is still a rather poor country, but Trump has been clear that he doesn't want Apple's supply chain just to move from China to India.
He wants it to move from China to the United States.
So conceivably, one way to make them more likely would be to raise hefty tariffs on India, even though India is a poor country.
So I think it sort of depends when you look around the world.
Certainly, there are some examples.
I would say Lesotho being a prominent one where it is a bit confounding.
There are other times where if you look at the world the way the president does, countries like India, Vietnam, it makes more sense.
Thank you so much.
Producing a shoe is actually a lot more difficult than you might imagine.
So there's a reason why it's always done in a very labor-intensive way. And that's because the fabrics that make up a shoe, their dimensions change based on the temperature, based on the humidity. And so if you're, say, the person who's in charge of gluing the sole of the shoe onto the upper part of the shoe...
You can easily adjust if, say, you realize that this sole is a little smaller than the last sole. You'll still know where to put the glue. But a machine is going to really struggle if the dimensions of the shoe are a little different.
And then by the time they got it and they were feeling, I think, you know, rather proud of this fact, Nike had already moved on to a new shoe where that method no longer worked.
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