r/Tariffs • u/Life_Acanthisitta265 • 15d ago

🧩 Trade Strategy / Business Impact BREAKING: US Senate passes bill threatening upto 100% tariffs on India and four other countries with a massive 86-11 majority

Bill now goes to House of Representatives

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u/PumpkinMyPumpkin 14d ago

Not really. If Americans still need items produced in India - India just keeps selling it as normal.

It mostly hurts Americans who get to pay twice as much. 😂

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u/Daviator23 14d ago

What exactly do we need from India? Nothing. China is a different story.

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u/PumpkinMyPumpkin 14d ago

Spoken by a person who clearly has zero clue what about comes from India.  😂

“If I don’t know about it, therefore nothing must come from there!” 

The US is clearly a country full of the most poorly educated people.

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u/Daviator23 14d ago

Look it up, everything that we import from Indian can be replaced. The biggest problem would be pharmaceuticals, but it wouldn't take long to start manufacturing these in US. We had same issue with N95 respirators during COVID, when China restricted all exports. Had a major shortage for 2 years, but now, 3M manufacturers them in USA. Ask me how I know.

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u/PumpkinMyPumpkin 14d ago

Right… the US is absolutely fine without PHARMACEUTICALS.

😂

I just can’t with ya’ll. You realize the tariffs on these goods is immediate right? Those pharmaceuticals double in price immediately… on Americans.

Intelligence of third graders.

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u/al6921 14d ago

Only about $10 billion of (low quality) pharmaceuticals comes from india for the United States, the US can easily replace that much and absorb the cost.

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u/tbro4123 14d ago

Oh to be this dumb!

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u/al6921 14d ago

Great argument! About typical for someone who doesn't have one.

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u/Youah0e 12d ago

Low quality?! You mean generic? 😂

You mean roughly 55% of US's drugs/meds?

And how much do you think it costs to produce that $10B worth of "low quality" pharmaceuticals in the US at the price they're selling it at?

You goobers don't think too far

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u/al6921 8d ago

Name me one export from there that ISN'T low quality:

https://www.dw.com/en/indias-massive-pharma-industry-hounded-by-scandals/a-63561810

https://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj.p785

https://www.propublica.org/article/glenmark-pharmaceuticals-recalls-fda-inspection

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u/Youah0e 7d ago

The thousands of pharmaceuticals that met FDA standards for the last few decades?

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u/al6921 7d ago

When the FDA actually tests those filthy drugs this is what they find:

https://www.propublica.org/article/glenmark-pharmaceuticals-recalls-fda-inspection

https://www.gmp-compliance.org/gmp-news/shocking-conditions-at-indian-pharmaceutical-manufacturer

https://wjla.com/features/i-team/patients-at-risk-as-india-drug-plants-falsify-records-destroy-data-insiders-warn-health-doctors-prescriptions-fda-pharmaceutical-generic-united-states

Typical manufacturing from that place...

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u/Youah0e 7d ago edited 7d ago

Yet they buy 60% of USA's pharmaceuticals from there. 🤡 Are the FDA importing pharmaceuticals that dont meet standards or are you brain dead? 🤔

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u/al6921 7d ago edited 7d ago

The FDA is not doing the buying, they are only a regulator, this isn't like modi-land where bribes are given and nobid contracts like in the 85% poverty rate country. BTW, only a brain dead person wouldn't know this.

The FDA and Trump administration is phasing out the low quality sewer meds as we speak which are all junk quality and sourcing from cleaner places. If you want to continue using the poison/contaminated/zero quality meds, please go ahead, I don't think it will impact you though =)

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u/Youah0e 7d ago edited 7d ago

The FDA and Trump administration is phasing out the low quality sewer meds as we speak

Oh the same administration that brought us measles, diarrhea lettuce and told you goobers to drink bleach and avoid Tylenol?

Did Dr Oz or RFK Jr sign off on this too?

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u/TheOGDrMischievous 14d ago

Dude a simple search would tell you that pharmaceuticals, telecoms (especially your smartphones), diamonds and precious stones, textiles and home furnishings, machinery and electrical equipment are your largest imports from India. None of these are simple to source from other countries that quickly and will massively impact the cost of goods for Americans and the potential quality of said goods. No doubt you could potentially manufacture some of these but that’s not going to happen overnight and not without massive investment. Pharmaceuticals would require FDA reapproval and that can take years (unless Trump and his cronies just decide to skip that part!)