Jacob Jensen
@JJensen2020
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Trade Policy Analyst at @AAF. WFU24. All views are my own. Author of “The Shipment” weekly trade news.
Joined June 2024
RT @KobeissiLetter: Is PPI inflation set to rise further?. The Philly Fed Prices Paid Index jumped 8 points in August, to 66.8, the highes….
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Fun Fact of the Day: . Did you know that Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour had a $5 billion economic impact in the US? . That’s larger than 33 countries or the bottom 10 economies combined!.
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RT @JJensen2020: New research on the de minimis threshold, a trade rule that saves U.S. consumers billions of dollars annually. Check it ou….
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This research looks at the economic harm of eliminating de minimis, a trade rule that allows imports below $800 to enter free from tariffs and fees.
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RT @JJensen2020: De Minimis is pro-US consumer and eliminating it will hurt lower income Americans most. #DeMinimis #congress #trade #C….
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Furniture Tariff Investigation News: . Amazingly, it turns out tariffs on furniture might be invoked via the Section 232 national security investigation on lumber as a derivative product. Does this mean plastic furniture is safe? .#Tariffs #TrumpTariff #Furniture.
Furniture Tariff Investigation: . President Trump just announced that there is now an investigation into implementing a tariff on furniture that should be completed in 50 days. Most likely this will be a Section 301 anti-dumping or unfair practice case, unless national security.
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Furniture Tariff Investigation: . President Trump just announced that there is now an investigation into implementing a tariff on furniture that should be completed in 50 days. Most likely this will be a Section 301 anti-dumping or unfair practice case, unless national security.
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RT @fredcashton: I wrote about this with @JJensen2020 for @AAF. We concluded that firms could leverage their position to lobby for tariff e….
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Executive Summary President Trump has advanced his economic agenda by, on the one hand, directing agencies to reduce anticompetitive regulations and, on the other, imposing broad tariffs, yet these...
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RT @fredcashton: Bingo. Bringing back a few papers I've written for @AAF that directly address Dr. Gramm's thesis in his @WSJopinion piece.….
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He will be traveling to Germany next week to discuss strategic partnerships. This builds on past comments that Canada seeks to become much closer to the EU in order to diversify away from the US.
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Canadian Press Conference News:. PM Carney continues to stress that Canada has the best trade deal in the world with an avg tariff of just over 5.5% . Despite the 35% tariff on paper, most Canadian goods coming into the US are now exempt under the USMCA.#Canada #TrumpTariffs.
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Important Points from PM Carney:. - The historic integration between Canada and the US has come to an end .- There is a need to strike new trade deals and look to other markets .- Past strengths have now become vulnerabilities . This is not exactly reassuring of relations.
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Canadian PM Press Conference: . Carney has formally announced the end of Canada’s retaliatory tariffs beginning September 1. Canadian tariffs on steel, aluminum, and autos will remain in place until negotiations progress further. #Canada #steel #TrumpTariffs.
Press Conferences: . President Trump is to hold a major announcement in the Oval Office soon. Prime minister Carney is also about to hold a press conference soon. Could this be a tariff pause or trade deal announcement? .#Canada #TrumpTariffs #Trump #BreakingNews.
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Press Conferences: . President Trump is to hold a major announcement in the Oval Office soon. Prime minister Carney is also about to hold a press conference soon. Could this be a tariff pause or trade deal announcement? .#Canada #TrumpTariffs #Trump #BreakingNews.
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RT @KobeissiLetter: BREAKING: Canada is removing many of its reciprocal tariffs in an “olive branch” to President Trump, per Bloomberg. Th….
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RT @scottlincicome: AriZona Iced Tea won't increase its famous 99-cent price, so instead the company will absorb $40M/yr in new aluminum ta….
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Don’t Count Your Inflation Reports Before They Hatch:. In this week’s Shipment, I discuss last week’s PPI report, inflation, and rising retail prices. U also briefly touch on the US-EU trade deal. Take a look! #PPI #inflation #Powell .
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(Not So) Fun Fact: The Trump Administration expanded the 50-percent steel and aluminum tariffs on Monday to include more than 400 derivative products, impacting roughly $180 billion in imports....
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RT @AAF: Before President Trump’s “Liberation Day,” coffee import tariffs ranged from 0% to 0.1%. In June, they jumped to 9.3% and are set….
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RT @scottlincicome: NBD, just an exponential increase in US coffee tariffs. as if that made any sense at all (via @AAF @JJensen2020) http….
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