Wednesday, 14 May 2025

Will Prices RISE? China Warns Wal-Mart Over Price Demands Caused By Tariffs

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Wal-Mart thought China would eat the costs of President Trump’s new tariffs?

I guess they really don’t know their business partner that well.

Because now China is trying to do the same to Wal-Mart.

They’re a perfect couple, if you really think about it. They’re in a constant competition to see who’s greedier.

Walmart’s strategy was to offset U.S. tariffs by pushing Chinese suppliers for price cuts.

Those in Beijing are not happy.

Chinese authorities summoned Wal-Mart executives, hinting that if they continue there will be “serious consequences.”

Feels like a scene out of a gangster movie.

Or even STAR WARS Episode I, The Phantom Menace. We’re literally living the opening scrawl of that movie.

“The taxation of trade routes (tariffs) to outlying star systems is in dispute.”

The funny thing is, the people that control the trading routes (The Trade Federation) in that movie have a Chinese accent, and they’re the ones protesting the tariffs sanctioned by the Republic (guess they would represent the US). Ha!

George Lucas might have been trying to tell us something.

Red State reports:

President Trump recently slapped some tariffs on various goods from China, and now Walmart, America’s largest retailer as well as America’s largest employer, is starting to grow concerned about the added cost. The chain relies on inexpensive goods from China, and those goods are about to get more expensive, and China is balking at absorbing the cost.

Walmart thought it could use its immense power as America’s biggest retailer to make Chinese suppliers eat the cost of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. But Walmart got a response it’s not accustomed to hearing: No.

Trump has slapped 20% tariffs — or taxes on imported goods — on all products coming from China. That’s put the squeeze on retailers like Walmart, which imports a lot of merchandise from China and sells those goods at the lowest price possible to American consumers. Walmart, in turn, has tried to pressure its Chinese suppliers to lower prices. But the Chinese government is having none of it.

The strong reaction from the Chinese government reveals how American companies are caught in the middle of an escalating trade war between the United States and China. While customers in the United States want low prices, that could be hard for Walmart to achieve if the Chinese government is stepping in, trade experts say. And if a company even as strong as Walmart struggles to hold down prices, it means that much smaller companies are going to be hurting, too.

On the national scale, China needs American consumers more than Americans need Chinese goods – but our industrial base is diminished, it won’t be rebuilt tomorrow, and Americans have been perhaps too accustomed to cheap towels, clothes baskets, flatware and the like from China, via Walmart and similar chains.

It’s an interesting problem for Walmart. Can China make this stick? Will Walmart eat the cost?

Walmart can either raise prices, risking a rebuke from US consumers that would impact its own bottom line, or press suppliers — risking the ire of the Chinese government.

Does this mean that you’ll have to start paying MORE to go through self-checkout?

Hey, if you want the privilege of acting like an employee, you should pay for it, right? I don’t think so.

Remember that time Wal-Mart called Josh Hawley a ‘sore loser” on X?

And not to mention, the insane control tactics China is using at their Wal-Mart stores that Democrats are dying to use on us:

So….what’s a guy to do?

This might help:

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    This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.

    View the original article here.


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