Summary
Trump announced that 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico will take effect on February 1, though a decision on including oil remains pending.
He justified the move by citing undocumented migration, fentanyl trafficking, and trade deficits.
Trump also hinted at new tariffs on China.
Canada and Mexico plan retaliatory measures while seeking to address U.S. concerns.
If oil imports are taxed, it could raise costs for businesses and consumers, potentially contradicting Trump’s pledge to reduce living expenses.
Canada and Mexico are still part of that North American free trade agreement thing. We (Canada) will just get our food from Mexico and South America like we’ve always done. We’ll just skip America.
Yeah, as a Canadian I’m down with strengthening our trade with Mexico.
Problem there might be transport. You need to do it without crossing a US border.
How much shipping goes between Canada and Mexico?
Maybe the free trade would allow trains and the like to go right through the USA without selling anything?
Why would the US want to do that?
Isn’t that the whole.purpose of the free trade agreement?
Right, but the tariffs will shoot that dead.
Only if sold in the US no? Not trying to be dense, but my understanding would be that it would apply to goods sold in the US not traveling through
I believe if a good enters a country it’s deemed as being imported, even if it’s getting exported immediately. At some ports they have areas where goods are deemed not to have entered the country and they can be put back on another ship. Drive it over “the border” though and suddenly you have to do all the paperwork and pay the bills.
I’m not aware of trains and trucks being considered as little bits of neutral territory moving across the country.
You mean the free trade agreement that Trump is currently trying to tear down?
Hell, he’ll probably ask y’all to pay taxes on transport, even for things you aren’t selling here.
Ah. You still dont understand how the US works. Send a small bribe directly to the Trump family and you can do whatever you like. I suggest using Eric Trump. If Dems are in charge send a bribe to AIPAC and they will give the dems their allowance. Either way its probably not even expensive.
Pfft… just buy some $TRUMP crypto coin. The graft is all out in the open now.
Also the “uncommitted” got their way and got Trump into power. So now AIPAC conspiracy stuff is just straight up antisemitism now.
Being called an antisemite doesnt have the sting it used to. Now it just means anyone the state of Israel disagrees with in any way.
back in the first episode, lord diaper whined, and whined and shit on nafta, forcing it to be ‘renegotiated’ by him. he just had to have his name on everything.
nafta was a long time in the making, from reagan, to bush, to clinton when it finally went into effect. it had bipartisan support in congress, a little stronger from the right.
undone by a single shart from an orange moron that leaked, and then magically ‘fixed’ by the same…
in the end, what mr. art-of-the-fucking-deal managed to ‘negotiate’ is almost entirely the same as the nafta he hated so much.
now he’s shitting on his own fucking deal. fuck’m.
i fully support your efforts to avoid our products and companies for the next few years. and if anyone up there wants to come renovate the white house again… i won’t be in your way.
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