Wir könnten bald überall leere Regale sehen. Hier ist, welche Gegenstände zuerst verschwinden könnten.

I swear to god if you mothercluckers all go for the toilet paper again I’m gonna lose my mind.

No but in all seriousness, it’s going to be awful. Things you don’t even expect will begin to be in short supply. Shit like ziplock bags, doggie poop bags, cardboard boxes, spray bottles, air fresheners, anything made in China. And if you’ve lived in the US for the last 30 years you know that’s pretty much everything on the shelves.

Disposable lighters are mostly made in China, so there may be a return of matches and zippos.

It’s not the availability of product it’s the price of product. At the consumer level.

Above that at the industry level it’s entirely different. If companies can’t afford to make the product then they won’t. If companies don’t think customers can afford over the counter medicine or school supplies or toys then they just won’t make them or ship them to USA. There’s price gouging yes but at a certain level even CEOs know customers won’t pay too high a price especially if their margins stay the same and the price increase is just to pay Trump and Republicans.

And it’s not just tariffs either. China took a page from USA’s playbook and is now doing to USA what USA has been doing to China for years. Don’t forget that during the Great Supply Chain Break of 2020 countries wanted to get trade back up and running. Now, you have China and Japan that don’t want to pay extortion money to Trump. Slight difference but it is there.

China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/china-just-turned-off-u-s-supplies-of-minerals-critical-for-defense-cleantech/
> What China did wasn’t a ban, at least not in name. They called it export licensing. Sounds like something a trade lawyer might actually be excited about. But make no mistake: this was a surgical strike. They didn’t need to say no. They just needed to say “maybe later” to the right set of paperwork. These licenses give Beijing control over not just where these materials go, but how fast they go, in what quantity, and to which politically convenient customers.
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> The U.S.? Let’s just say Washington should get comfortable waiting behind the rope line. The licenses have to be applied for and the end use including country of final destination must be clearly spelled out. Licenses for end uses in the U.S. are unlikely to be approved. What’s astonishing is how predictable this all was. China has spent decades building its dominance over these supply chains, while the U.S. was busy outsourcing, divesting, and cheerfully ignoring every report that said, “Hey, maybe 90% dependence on a single country we keep starting trade wars with and rattling sabers at is a bad idea.”
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> Try ramping up your semiconductor fab or solar plant when your indium source just dried up. It’s a fun exercise in learning which of your suppliers used to be dependent on Beijing but never mentioned it in the quarterly call.
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> The materials China just restricted aren’t random. They’re chosen with the precision of someone who’s read U.S. product spec sheets and defense procurement orders. Start with dysprosium. If your electric motor needs to function at high temperatures—and they all do—then mostly it is using neodymium magnets doped with dysprosium. No dysprosium, no thermal stability. No thermal stability, no functioning motor in your F-35 or your Mustang Mach-E. China controls essentially the entire supply of dysprosium, and no, there is no magical mine in Wyoming or Quebec waiting in the wings. If dysprosium doesn’t come out of China, it doesn’t come out at all. It’s the spinal cord of electrification, and right now China’s holding the vertebrae.
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> So here we are. China has responded to Trump’s tariffs by cutting off U.S. supply of some of the most essential ingredients of the modern world.

Remember, people in China can buy stuff made in China. People in USA can’t buy all the stuff they want made in USA. Most USA factories are dependent on a foreign country to make a finished product. Except Twinkies. I looked that up yesterday. We good there except for the plastic to put the Twinkies in.

“Fourth of July is one of the nearest major holidays, and it’s when you might first notice a major shortage, be it your desired grill or fireworks. That’s because seasonal items like American flags and fireworks are largely made in China.”

OF FUCKING COURSE.

School supplies and disposable items will be an obvious big hit. I’m curious how this will affect everything else as well.

Headed to out to buy the next show size up today. 

I know this isn’t the point, but it’s kind of sad that this article listed plastic cups under household essentials. 

Honestly, reading this article really makes the tariffs sound not that bad and the article almost comes off as an argument in favor of tariffs. It boils down to „essentials will be available but the cheap knickknacks you’re all addicted to will go away.“

Don’t get me wrong, I think tariffs are bad, Trump is evil, and I am not trying to defend him or his policies. My point is just that this article specifically presents the tariffs in such a way as to make it look like people are over exaggerating about their effects. The things they’re mentioning aren’t significant at all and it feels petty to focus on them.

Lumber is tariffed. That impacts home prices, repairs, and thus insurance and rents as well. Huge ripple effects and very significant. Plastic cup shortage is honestly for the best though.

Toilet paper you say?

1 – Freedom

2 – The constitution.

3 – etc.

If nobody puts controls on place, you know they will double whatever the cost is to them when adjusting their prices and we will never see it go down even if the tariffs end.

I already got a pack at Costco recently for this reason. I think the warehouse was also overstocking paper to beat tariffs in case of overbuying

Unintended benefit: maga will not be able to buy Trump merchandise because it is all made in China

I was at the pet store yesterday to buy turtle food and filters for my little beta aquarium. Turtle food, it’s frozen, was in stock, no issues.
I found two packages of filters, both the wrong size. Checked the label, made in China.
Asked the girl behind the counter if they had any replacement filters in the store room.
She advised they had not gotten any in.
I found them on Amazon. I HATE. Amazon. I don’t want my fish to die before his time.
Not a huge thing in the overall scheme I know. I live in a rural area, no big box stores around. It’s more than an hours drive to the Pet Store, which is local, not a national chain store.
I’m venting , I know.
I thought I had everything I needed for this tariff BS. I was wrong.

BuT hE iz oWniNg tHe lIBS. 

Roscoe T. Goober, from the holler. 

Now would be a good time to invest in a bidet. They’re stupid easy to install and cut down on toilet paper A LOT. I use like 8 squares per shit, and you’re ACTUALLY clean.

Fuck the paper industry, that shit is mega evil for people and the planet. Took me 20m to install a bidet, I will never go back.

„Don’t have to worry about high prices if there’s nothing to buy! Thanks Donald!“

– Some of his dumbass supporters probably

Bananas are slim where im at right now.

empty shelves, power outages, dirty tap water. Just the start.

Brought to you by the people who said that they couldn’t vote for a Democrat because of inflation.

Everyone is talking about tariffs and prices on imported goods.  

Let’s remember that American companies selling American products are likely to raise prices as well, BECAUSE THEY CAN….

I run intermodal freight, and the rail yards have noticeably fewer trailers, and the Walmart I went to earlier always had a full yard, but only had maybe 1/3 of the loads it usually does

Oh it’s happening. You can’t just turn the economy on and off like a fucking WiFi router. It will be months. And all thanks to inbred country cousin fucking mental maga nut heads

This is heading towards the fall of the union shortly after an American leader visits a grocery store in China.

4th of July is gonna be fuckin weird without cheap Chinese fireworks