America's Trade War

When you mention the word war, there is never a winner. The New York Times reported in July that the US Tariffs on Chinese imports have raised $US20.8 billion, but President Trump has already pledged $US28 billion to help American farmers reeling from tit-for-tat tariffs leaving the US with a deficit of over $US7 billion. When you start to look closer, is this all about supporting non performing businesses or perhaps a re-election campaign?

In business, we all have customers who can be demanding and what we do is build the bridge to the middle ground, walk over that bridge and work on doing business – we also call it that the customer is always right.