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Funniest possible treat shortage would be fireworks. Independence Day is only 2 months away. Fireworks were originally invented in China. 82% of fireworks in the world are made in China.
Every Independence Day of Trump's first presidency, the hogs went wild with fireworks. Imagine July 4, the first Independence Day of Trump's second term, and a shortage of fireworks. Hogs would go nuts.
I was imagining that hogs will decide to fire guns haphazardly in lack of fireworks. I hadn't considered hogs crafting homemade fireworks but that would be very funny as well.
I’ll bet anything that most of the fireworks will be procured before the tariffs. Probably a bit of an increase of prices, but not insane. Next year though? Lol
I did some websurfing, saw some various news articles on firework tariffs. Some firework companies have halted shipments. Then I came across the /r/fireworks subreddit. I'm seeing a lot of posts by people who are saying that they are firework retailers and have canceled their orders from China. Some posts say that the tariff on fireworks was at 59% as of 25 days ago. People are saying that 2026 is "America's 250th Birthday", 250 years since 1776. Time will tell, I guess
https://old.reddit.com/r/fireworks/comments/1jq6ief/what_are_you_going_to_do_about_tariffs/
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