President Donald Trump He said he would impose punitive tariffs on US allies and rivals this weekend. We still don’t know what industry he will rule out (Trump has mentioned oil and gas) or how the target country will respond, but the agreement of an expert is that tariffs will raise the price of US companies and consumers.
Hurricane Milton, Huricanes Milton and Helena, thousands of Los Angelenos who have lost everything in the recent fire, and thousands of Los Angelenos in the present or near the future It is not especially welcome to the Floridian and North Caroline people, which have been damaged or destroyed by companies. It must be rebuilt in the face of more frequent and destructive climate change -oriented disasters.
Trump’s tariffs say that UC Berkeley’s HaaS School of Business, an economist for international trade, said, “California will fantasize the challenging environment when the Californian residents recover from LA fires.” . “25 %of the tariffs for foreign imports will be paid by residents of domestic California companies and people who consume wood, food, cement, plastic and other necessities. If tariffs are passed by an importer of these items, housing reconstruction can be much more expensive. ”
Consider the vulnerability: In 2022, according to the visual data edited by the OEC (Observatory of Economic Complexity), Canada was almost half the source of about $ 35 billion in China.
The United States imported nearly $ 3 billion in plastic building materials in 2022. I came here.
What is the $ 2.3 billion worth of cement American income? Turkey is the biggest source, but the runners are Canada and Mexico.
This continues. Most of the imported gravel and mashed stones are from Canada and Mexico. Nearly a quarter of imported bricks are supplied by China and Canada. The United States accounted for $ 43.2 billion in steel in 2022, and about 37 %of Trump’s goal is in three countries.
as guardianNina Lakhani reported that Trump’s deportation order was already posing a few days ago. The problem of the community due to fire and floods. It is difficult and dangerous to remove toxic fragments when you wake up, and it is difficult to find people who are willing to be willing to emerge at about 4 %of unemployment. Whether it’s better or bad, the United States depends Immigrants are often essential for unpleasant and unpleasant things for immigrants who are not documented.
At the best time, the construction industry depends greatly on immigrants, from the run workers, including carpenters, landscapes, mason, plumbing holes, roofs, tillers and welders, to contractors and skilled merchants. In some states, including California and Florida, about 40 %of construction workers are immigrants. Some have been temporarily protected by permanent residence, legal work, or temporary deportation until last week, but Trump rejected it. Others are illegally in the United States, so they are in the mercy of immigration and tariff execution (ICE).
As the administration pursued the deportation agenda, experts predicted that they would be economically destructive, and even legal immigrants would argue that they would be vulnerable to being swept away by ice attacks. Fearful workers Migra You can choose to avoid disaster recovery zones so that the area does not seduce the target for immigration execution.
Fear of labor shortages and deportation inevitably will inevitably slow down and increase costs. Double of deportation and tariffs can be fatal to recovery efforts. “Trump’s tariffs were crazy not to put it in too technical language. Joseph Stiglitz, a prominent economist at Columbia University, says Joseph Stiglitz, who won the 2001 Nobel Economics Award.
“It is worse in combination with the labor shortages that can occur in his immigration policy. Climate -related disasters such as Los Angeles forests will have greater demands for both construction workers and materials. Whether you like it or not, we rely heavily on both outside the border, and changes that can’t happen all night will change. ”
