The tariff clown car rolls on - Canada edition
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Well, "you're not allowed to" raise tariffs on Canada and Mexico either, according to the USMCA that Trump himself signed, but he does it anyway only because Congressional Republicans are jellyfish.
@Piano-Dad said in The tariff clown car rolls on:
Well, "you're not allowed to" raise tariffs on Canada and Mexico either, according to the USMCA that Trump himself signed, but he does it anyway only because Congressional Republicans are jellyfish.
Wahhhhh...more "that's illegal" screeches from the Toddler-in-Chief.
President Donald Trump shared his intent to purchase a Tesla
on Tuesday to support Elon Musk as the electric vehicle maker’s sales and share price face pressure from the CEO’s foray into global politics, most notably as head of Trump’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency.
“I’m going to buy a brand new Tesla tomorrow morning as a show of confidence and support for Elon Musk, a truly great American,” Trump wrote in a post published early Tuesday morning on Truth Social.
Trump said “radical left lunatics” are “illegally and collusively” boycotting Tesla, which the president described as one of the best automakers in the world. This action, Trump said, was meant as an attack on Musk and what he stands for.
It is not illegal for consumers to boycott companies. The Supreme Court in 1982 ruled the First Amendment protects Americans’ rights to protest private businesses.
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Tariffs, from the CBC.
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Canada on Wednesday announced new trade duties on some $21 billion worth of U.S. goods in response to President Donald Trump implementing universal steel and aluminum tariffs.
America's northern neighbor is the largest foreign supplier of steel and aluminum to the U.S., and experts have warned Trump's duties would be passed on to consumers.
In a news conference Wednesday announcing the retaliatory duties, a Canadian government spokesman called Trump's tariffs "completely unjustified, unfair and unreasonable."
"The U.S. administration is once again inserting disruption and disorder into an incredibly successful trading partnership and raising the costs of everyday goods for Canadians and American households alike," said François-Philippe Champagne, Canada's minister of innovation, science and industry.
Canada's announcement comes despite a detente having been reached Tuesday with the Trump administration to resolve threats of a 25% surcharge on American consumers of Canadian electricity. Trump had threatened Canada with steel and aluminum tariffs climbing to 50% if the province of Ontario followed through on the surcharge.
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50% tariffs on Canadian import:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4dzq3x3e1o... Trump has imposed a 50% tariff on a wide range of goods imported from Canada, in retaliation for what he called "unequal treatment" of US cars, dairy and alcohol.
It may reads like deja vu, but it's 2026 July news.
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This is all so frustrating but what drives me most crazy is the dairy. We do let dairy in - but only a small amount because we make our own. Dairy is not something we need to import. And the safety inspections and requirements differ here so that’s another layer. I don’t understand the idea that another country should be required to import stuff we don’t need.
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About the tariffs on alcohol...
Anecdotally, folks in my area are fine with them putting US booze back on the shelves to placate the US, though most people say they wouldn’t buy it anyway. I’ve heard folks suggest that we should put it back on shelves but on the bottom shelf, which I think is a great gesture.
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Crucial trade talks between the United States and Canada to stave off punishing new tariffs by the Trump administration on Canadian goods collapsed late Friday, with Canada saying it would retaliate “dollar for dollar.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said he had decided to suspend the talks because the American side had introduced last-minute terms that were “unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal.”
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