Wonder if pork will be cheaper?????

[FredK]

Now that China slapped a 25% hike on it. Trade war stuff.

[Billy_Rightwing]

I'm really worried that a pork chop will cost 2½¢ a pound more.

[mgrist]

Darn and I like pork, I'm with you billy, I may not get to sleep tonight.

[Kevin]

And when we retaliate on other goods and they retaliate on other goods etc. etc. etc., will everyone be so unconcerned?

[Mike]

I already do my best not to buy anything from China. I'm more than happy to pay more for made in America.

Added on edit, I absolutely refuse to buy food products like meat, seafood etc. from there or anywhere else in Asia.

[Kevin]

In reality, so do I Mike. I'm OK with buying American even when it costs more. I like supporting the home team over the visitors. Heck, I drive a Chevy truck and a Chevy SUV. And my "fun" car is a 76 Eldorado convertible. I've invested a lot in American goods.

I just wonder if other folks, who might be living a little closer to the edge than I am, might have a problem.

[wacojoe]

I have real concerns with doing “free trade” with a country that makes a habit of hacking our secret government networks and stealing our designs. When you see them fly our F-35 Strike Fighter and call it their J-31, it ought to raise concerns and call for response. That trade is a bit too free for my tastes.

[Phillbo]

How do you tell where the meat you buy is coming from? I've never thought to look. I never buy frozen meat so assumed it was local.

I do stock on Steak and Shrimp when in Mexico.

[Mike]

The country of origin is right on the package.

You have to be careful because they sometimes get tricky and say something like "sold by the Mississippi Gulf Shrimp Company" (fictional name I hope) and then in small print say "imported from Thailand". Uh uh, I ain't eating that!

[Phillbo]

I guess that makes sense that i have never seen that then.I only buy meats from the butcher and it comes in brown wrapping paper.

[Kevin]

What a coincidence! The wine I drink comes in a brown paper wrapper as well!!

[Phillbo]

Better than a box.

[TxMusky]

Boxes are brown! That's just boxist

I try to stick with good old Texas beef, although I bet some of it comes from Kansas or further north. Chicken used to come from Texas until a couple of the big producers here closed down. Raeford Farms and Tyson.

[Honda]

It was a trump policy so many will have problems with it simply because of that.

[Kevin]

True enough. However, you'd be wrong to believe that the source of many people's opposition to higher tariffs stems only from the fact that it is Trump who is doing it.

For example, I went to college in the 1970s and the orthodoxy then was that higher tariffs only beget higher tariffs, impoverishing everyone. Trump was still experiencing his own Vietnam by facing down sexually transmitted diseases at that point.