Birth control and beer kegs: How Trump's tariffs will hit Middle America

[DonViejo]

By DOUG PALMER 06/13/2018 04:39 PM EDT

Birth control pills, lawnmowers and flat-panel televisions are among a long list of goods that could get more expensive after President Donald Trump slaps 25 percent tariffs on a list of Chinese imports.

The final list of items facing penalties is due out Friday, and a wide range of U.S. consumer favorites is likely to be on it, despite a scramble by many affected businesses to get their items removed – or to get competitors’ products on.

The intense activity was on display during three days of hearings in late May, when the Trump administration heard testimony from more 100 witnesses. Many predicted higher prices and shortages of everything from pharmaceuticals to snow blowers.

Prasad Pinnamaraju, chief operating officer of Novast Laboratories, a U.S. subsidiary of Chinese pharmaceutical company Novast Holdings, said women could have trouble getting birth control pills, which were on a preliminary target list Trump released in April. Pinnamaraju’s company supplies about 10 to 20 percent of the U.S. market, he said.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/13/trump-tariffs-middle-america-644687

[uponit7771]

1. They'll blame Obama after Red Don tells them to

[lark]

2. Some of the more ignorant will do that, yes.

But the business owners will know it's the tariffs and that it was drumpf that implemented them and they will be very unhappy with him and if they aren't total racist douchebags might be a Dem vote after they're feeling the hurt of the drumpf/putin economy.