Middle East

[cowboyinexile]

okkkkkaaaay then....

Trump threatens 50 percent tariffs on Iran arms supplies​

President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened 50 percent tariffs on any country that supplies military weapons to Iran, though it’s not clear he has the legal authority to do so.

“A Country supplying Military Weapons to Iran will be immediately tariffed, on any and all goods sold to the United States of America, 50%, effective immediately. There will be no exclusions or exemptions!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.


While the president previously wielded tariffs to pressure other countries to bend to his will, the Supreme Court in February took away the main legal justification — a 1977 emergency law — he had used to slap those levies on countries at will.

The tariff tools he has left at his disposal are more limited and cumbersome, requiring more specific justifications and more thorough investigations before tariffs can be imposed.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about what legal authority the president plans to use to enforce his threat.

Trump could, for instance, try to use Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, which allows the president to impose tariffs of up to 50 percent. However, that statue is supposed to be used to combat foreign discriminatory trade practices or restrictions against U.S. goods — a legal stretch in the case of weapons sales.

So self tariffs?

 

[steross]

This is a very expensive and drawn out d!<k measuring contest

And penises tend to shrink as you get older.

 

[steross]

You can skip this thread and just watch this. Nails the whole war right up to the ceasefire that lasted about the time it takes me to take a dump of if I bring my phone. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DhR7Wrdcj/?mibextid=wwXIfr

 

[GratefulPoke]

You can skip this thread and just watch this. Nails the whole war right up to the ceasefire that lasted about the time it takes me to take a dump of if I bring my phone. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DhR7Wrdcj/?mibextid=wwXIfr

 

[TheMonkey]

So self tariffs?

Aren’t they all?

 

[TheMonkey]

And penises tend to shrink as you get older.

Which is why it’s drawn out and expensive. Those atomic microscopes are expensive and slow.

 

[TheMonkey]

You can skip this thread and just watch this. Nails the whole war right up to the ceasefire that lasted about the time it takes me to take a dump of if I bring my phone. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DhR7Wrdcj/?mibextid=wwXIfr

 

[cowboyinexile]

Aren’t they all?

 

[CowboyJD]

This is a very expensive and drawn out d!<k measuring contest

This was an attempt by Trump to declare victory and walk away.

The Iranians aren’t having it though because they realize he’s thrown himself into a quagmire.