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CAN-USA Tariff Strife (split from various pol threads)

Turns out from what I've read this morning that our 'new' date for an agreement has been pushed back to 1 Aug. So this 'new' 35% tariff is his attempt to draw a red line under the 1 Aug date.

What everyone seems to be forgetting is that NONE of these 'agreements' (such as the UK or Vietnam ones) are in fact law until Congress votes on them and it passes within Congress. Up until then, there is NOTHING preventing Trump from ignoring the agreed upon agreement because its not become law in the US.
Lack of legal authority isn’t something he appears to feel particularly constrained by.

The funniest one currently in the Tariffs mess is his personal interest in hitting Brazil over the legal treatment of their former president. And he still pretends like it’s an emergency and his Congress goes along with it.

 
Confirmed, didn't even make it to Tuesday.

CUSMA-compliant goods exempt from Trump's latest tariff threat on Canada

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Survey says .....
Interesting seeing why people are confident or not, and which sectors they want to protect ....
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Deets on when/how the polling was done
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Statement also attached as PDF if link doesn't work for you.
 

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Trump is coming after the Cdn Dairy clique. That will be very, very interesting.
 
Oh? What did you see on that?
Seems to be part of the latest letter ...
... with highlights mine from the letter shared via Truth Social
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Also brought up earlier this year a bit ....
... with this reminder on how much Canadians surveyed by Angus Reid & Co. want to hang onto supply management (even in AB)
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DST was legislated, then cut, so don't see how supply management is completely safe - except for the political capital needed if it's cut.
 
Why do you say poor-quality American product? Millions of Americans eat and survive. Also, visitors/snowbirds.

Add: Carney has spoken about a new agreement with Europe, but we struck a free-trade deal with the EU in 2014 under the former Stephen Harper government and it still isn’t fully ratified. There are still 10 countries that have yet to fully approve the deal and, of course, it no longer applies to Britain. Negotiations with the U.K. for a trade deal broke down in early 2024 over Canada’s refusal to allow British cheese-makers greater access to the Canadian market.

 
Why do you say poor-quality American product? Millions of Americans eat and survive. Also, visitors/snowbirds.



Of course the American product won't kill people any more than Canadian product will. It's a matter of how you want to spend your money.

Comes down to wanting to shop local versus shop "WeSaySo Big Box" chain store. Local often costs more, but keeps profit in town. WeSaySo costs less, but shopping there enough means local shops where the profit is kept/spent in town shut down.

Different folks'll have different views on which they prefer.
 
Why do you say poor-quality American product? Millions of Americans eat and survive. Also, visitors/snowbirds.



Because the American dairy industry regularly uses chemicals and hormones that are not fit for human consumption here and in Europe. Combine that with their subsidy regime which is just supply management on the demand rather than supply side and thats what makes it so cheap. Dumping is a serious concern here as we could not compete with their prices.
 
Australia and New Zealand dumped their dairy protection rackets decades ago and are thriving like never before. New Zealand dairy puts our stuff to shame. And in Europe, they have butter that spreads at room temperature!
 
Australia and New Zealand dumped their dairy protection rackets decades ago and are thriving like never before. New Zealand dairy puts our stuff to shame.
But does AUS and NZL have a market 10 times their combined size right next door that can crank up its production by about 5 per cent and swamp their domestic markets?s
And in Europe, they have butter that spreads at room temperature!
Europe may not be the best example if you want to show systems where there's less protectionism and subsidy than Canada :) They have reasonably strict tariff and import quota controls, too - mind you, we can't compare with the range of products available and the competition that keeps folks alert, too.
 
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