Buying and supplying items including food and drink could cost businesses as much as a fifth more this year, which they will pass on to consumers, according to the international trade association, which represents 64,000 member organisations in procurement and supply chains across 150 countries.International shipping costs have been rising in recent months as global freight companies faced a string of challenges in moving goods around the world.Tensions in the Middle East and attacks on vessels travelling through the Red Sea by Houthi rebels prompted many major shipping firms to re-route their vessels around the Cape of Good Hope, adding cost and time to journeys.The prospect of Trump following through on his threats to impose tariffs of 10% on global imports into the US, along with a higher 60% tariff on Chinese goods has already prompted some companies to bring forward container shipments of goods to avoid such changes.However, pre-emptive measures such as stockpiling would only temporarily delay the impact of price rises, trade experts said, warning that any new levies could push up costs, disrupt trade flows, and spark retaliation against US exports.https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/07/consumers-price-rises-trade-experts-warn
>>1372988>Global instability and possibility of Trump administration imposing tariffs may disrupt flow of goodsGood, the US shouldn't trade with anti-freedom countries
>>1372988no matter what theyll say it's bidens fault.
>>1373016Leftists are blaming bird flu on Trump even thought it started and progressed entirely under Biden.
>>1373016Look HARD into a mirror, and say this," I made this bed, so now I gotta lie in it"
>>1373055doesnt matter when it started, the average schmuck voter has goldfish memory so whoever is sitting when the bad stuff starts to happen will get the blame.
>>1373011the world shouldn't trade with a parasite country like the US let them grow their own tree oil and food fuck you.you think buying stuff from other countries is a subsidy
>>1373055>Leftists are blaming bird flu on Trump even thought it started and progressed entirely under Biden.Lets just ignore how nothing in this article is relevant to bird flu....The existence of H5N1 predates biden's seat in the chair. It's presence in your country was recorded in 2004. So your claims that it 'started and progressed entirely under biden' are demonstrably false. Where trump starts to take blame is 2018/2019 - just before a major epidemic (not unlike what's coming, only this one will be fatal) decided it's a good idea to withdraw funding from things like CDC. Because who needs disease control.Did you like the covids? Because now you've actually got something to worry about. Second that mutates human to human it'll be everyhere before you can blink. It's a good thing everyone managed to demonstrate lessons about sharing air was learned. It's a good thing trump hasn't mentioned intent to make further cuts to things like disease control whilst simultaniously relaxing industrial standards to allow your food to drift further from what is acceptable in a civilised country with the resulting corner cutting making a ripe environment to encourage pathogen spread. Or you'd be a little bit fucked, really.
>>1373068What is your native language and what country are you from?
>>1373075guess where you are on the dunning kruger scale
>>1373068No one will ever allow a quarantine like that to ever happen again. Liberals turned out into a religion and made it a clown show. We need a constitutional amendment that businesses cannot force anyone to be vaccinated or wear a mask and the federal government is forbidden from paying corporations to make vaccines that don't treat anything
>>1373086george washington disagrees
>>1372988>international trade associationProbably not an unbiased source. jsGood thing libershits are so retarded they'll believe anything at this point.
>>1373088Rightwingers aren't smart enough to know what you're talking about
>>1373086You don't "allow" a quarantine to happen. It will happen when an outbreak hits. The only question is how many casualties you'll allow before you do.
>>1373088You're retarded >>1373130Samefag being retarded again>>1373146The "quarantine" did nothing during covid. You can't even call or a quarantine because everyone was still going out because protecting corporate profits were still the top priority. I might agree with you if everyone was ordered to stay in doors for two weeks and the only time allowed to operate were grocery stores. The fake quarantine we got was all political theater
>>1373202you think george washington is a retard for winning the revolutionary war with the help of primitive vaccines?
>>1373062Were you going around saying this since Jan20th 2021 ? I'd guess not.
>>1373202>The "quarantine" did nothing during covid.the words of a person that wasn't in a hospital during covid.
>>1373204This is a retarded strawman. What does a dead man, who is completely irrelevant to this conversation, have to do with this? Washington would have been killing liberals left and right during covid for their tyranny
>>1373216you're a complete dumbfuck so i have no faith that you'll absorb any history lesson i give you. enjoy your subpar life
>>1373212>Makes tiktok shorts while being "overwhelmed" intensifies
>>1373218I accept your concession, retarded shill
>>1373219>is literally paid to post disinformation on 4chan instead of helping the infirm
>>1373222nice get faggot. it's probably your crowning achievement in life isn't it
>>1373223>Says the retarded shill that spent 4 years claiming Jan 6 was terrorism
>>1373225well at least you tacitly admitted you're a shill
>>1373222trump himself said covid was airborne and 5x more contagious than the normal flu. quarantine slowed the fuckery down. hospitals were are max capacity.
>>1373218>Democrats >Teaching history Lmao lol even>>1373226Nice reading comprehension. You've outed yourself as an ESL third worlder>>1373230And he was initially mocked for it because he was completely wrong about it. Then liberals jumped on the covid fascism train and blew it out of reality
>>1373233>>1373233i envy people as monumentally stupid as you. it must be pure bliss
>>1373238No one envies you. You're speaking as though you're not the most retarded person in this thread
>>1373233>And he was initially mocked for it because he was completely wrong about it.That's literally not what happened.https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/stories/2022/03/united-states-deaths-spiked-as-covid-19-continued-figure-2.jpgThere are other countries aside of the USA with similar stats.
>>1373243Those stats are falsified because the US was trying to get the reported numbers as high as possible. Everyone that died in a car wreck in 2020 had covid listed as their cause of death
>>1373279the chart is all deaths regardless of cause.
>>1373279Fun fact: flu deaths were nonexistent. Sure is weird how the kung-flu was so problematic but the regular flu didn't matter all that much.
>>1373300Fun fact: On average, the flu kills around 36,000 people in the United States each year. That is 0.01070% of the population.
>>1372988Good. Lie in grave you've dug for yourselves, faggots, and know that I'll be right there to piss on it.
>>1373300By 'kung-flu' I take it you mean covid-19 which most likely was released by a US weapons lab on your east coast that got scorched earth after a failure in policy and procedure that could result in the release of an organism. A few months before the first detection in wuhan - which is where someone working on weaponising covids moved to when that lab shut down.It didn't matter that much *to you*. It was definitely wiping people out. The response to it wasn't strong enough IMHO, as evidenced by it's continued existence when it clearly could of been erradicated from the ecosystem in about a month. But the response was due to it being a new player in the game. It's sensible to excersize caution in these situations.But at least there isn't something serious in your ecosystem that's a little mutation away from going human ยป human 'cause otherwise you'd be about to have a serious problem because of all the fucknuckles like you being dipshits.
>>1373322You sound bitter and angry. What was her name?
>>1373346>A few months before the first detection in wuhan - which is where someone working on weaponising covids moved to when that lab shut down.I doubt this part.It seems to me more likely that the COVID research institute in Wuhan leaked it. But I do agree they held American funded research grants
I'm still unvaxxed and fine.
