Dear Mr. President;
Why Is the US Charging Tariffs on the Caribbean? A Question of Globalization and Unfair Trade
By Renaldo McKenzie, Author of “Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance.”
How can the United States justify imposing tariffs on countries like Jamaica, Haiti, and others in the Caribbean—nations whose markets have been devastated by the very multinationals and transnationals that the U.S. has supported for decades?
American corporations have long penetrated these emerging markets, flooding them with cheaper goods and services, eroding local industries, and reducing Caribbean nations to dependent capitalist markets. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), often under U.S. influence, has further entrenched these dependencies by enforcing structural adjustment policies that gutted public investment and local enterprise.
Meanwhile, the region sends hundreds of millions—if not billions—of dollars in royalties, profits, and remittances back to the U.S., continuing a cycle of extraction and economic subordination.
So why would former President Donald Trump—who claims to support fair trade—impose tariffs on these vulnerable economies?
The answer lies in the deeply unequal mechanisms of globalization, where the rules benefit the powerful and marginalize the developing world. It’s a game stacked against countries trying to build self-reliance and resilience.
One of my friends use to work for comcast comcastbusiness as a customer services rep (now called “Call Center Rep) getting $17 – $21 per hour in #Philly COMCAST laid him off and outsourced the job to The Phillines and Caribbean where Comcast pays Call Center Reps $1 – $3.50 per day. Yet we charge them reciprocal tariffs up to 10% plus direct tariff on others. They want to have their cake and eat it too. DONT BE GREEDY. GREED LEADS TO GLUT AND THEN DEATH.
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Guyana found oil but never had the capability and capacity to extract and enrich the oil. So they got US oil companies to help them. That help has costed them 78 % because Guyana only get back 12% of the profit after they pay the US companies. That’s a fact. Read it in My upcoming Book, Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered UnfairCompetition and the Death of Nations store.theneoliberal.com
To explore these ideas further, I invite you to read my book Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance, which provides a historical and critical analysis of these global dynamics.
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