# Get Ready to Pay More for Your Tires

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**Created:** [September 12, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-to-pay-more-for-your-tires/509852 "2009-09-12T22:02:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-to-pay-more-for-your-tires/509852/1 "2009-09-12T22:02:37Z")

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The Obama administration in its infinite wisdom [has decided to slap a 35% tariff on Chinese tires.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/11/AR2009091103957_pf.html)

So much for Obama’s rhetoric about free trade. This was a bone thrown to the United Steelworkers. American car buyers and tire buyers will pay the price.

And China is enraged about this. Expect some form of retaliation, which will do further economic damage. China has an awful lot of levers it can pull on the American economy, since it is a main supplier of goods and a main holder of American debt.

Would anyone like to defend this particular brand of idiocy?

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