Tariffs and Trade War explained in 2 minutes...👍👌
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If that is going to be the economic model then there is no such thing as reciprocal tariffs? If Kentucky bourbon wants access to canada they have to manufacture here. Is that the goal or does US only get to charge tariffs?
Great handle BTW! I know we have charged tariffs, didn't realize it was on so much stuff until recently. We don't want the dairy with hormones and antibiotics and vaccines etc.it was my understanding tat was the motivation for dairy tariffs. Can you even buy canadian dairy in the us? There is no US dairy here. Our dairy market control is ridiculous. We dump thousands of litres daily but that's a whole other issue. But hasn't US always tariffed a bunch of our stuff? Softwood lumber for instance. And wasn't all this part of the last trade deal, you know when christia freeland really beat up on trump in those negotiations.
Oh, I see, so there is an effort to offset by mixing and matching. But then we don't follow through or just change it as we go like adding "digital tax"?
Do you have a background in this realm?
I'm having lunch with former director General of canadian treasury next week. I'm going to pick his brain as well. I have not spent much time on trade issues. I'm finding it pretty interesting.
The freeland comment was a joke. I'm terrified of the deal jt is going to make. He will screw us over again.
Wait, I think I've got this figured out: Canadians have been paying an extra tax so to punish them, Americans must pay an extra tax which isn't fair so Canadians must pay additional tax and if they continue to do so, Americans will be charged even more tax.
Does that about sum it up? Sounds a bit scammy.
Who's FA and who's FO?
What if we say we don't want american dairy or American banks in canada? Processed foods with toxic ingredients, theres some legit reasons to not want some products here, Is that just unacceptable or are exclusion generally allowed?
There's got to be stuff we can just say no to and you've got a few of your own I would expect?
Was this a problem prior to trudeau? Must have been.