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

[HavokFour]

Seems like a fair trade. The alcohol thing is the one they keep bringing up the most, after all.

Carney says lifting U.S. liquor ban depends on Trump ending assault on steel, autos, lumber​

 

[RangerRay]

Seems like a fair trade. The alcohol thing is the one they keep bringing up the most, after all.

Carney says lifting U.S. liquor ban depends on Trump ending assault on steel, autos, lumber​

Isn’t that some provinces doing that on their own?

 

[brihard]

Isn’t that some provinces doing that on their own?

Yes. I imagine provinces whose major industries have been targeted by tariffs are willing to play ball on reciprocal policy adjustments.

 

[Eaglelord17]

Remember it isn’t a liquor ban, it is certain provinces alcohol monopolies just not buying American liquor, a distinct difference.

Seeing as many of my coworkers and friends have lost their jobs and my job was put at risk, directly due to Americas games with steel tariffs, I am not exactly in the mood to be accommodating them.

THEY should be the ones coming to the table with concessions and a apology not the other way around.

Anything else seems like the peace in our time declaration.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Seems like the Brits are next up in the cross hairs on the Digital Services Tax ......

Trump warns of ‘big tariff’ if UK doesn’t drop digital services tax on U.S. tech firms

The tax is a 2% levy on the revenues of search engines, social media services and online marketplaces that derive value from U.K. users.

www.cnbc.com

• Trump has threatened to impose steep tariffs on the U.K. unless it drops its digital services tax on U.S. tech companies.
• The tax is a 2% levy on the revenues of search engines, social media services and online marketplaces that derive value from U.K. users.
• “If they don’t drop the tax, we’ll probably put a big tariff on the U.K.,” Trump said.

Trump is basically telling the US, you don't have any right to tax any US corporation. This has nothing, nothing to do with trade as I see it, the American 'consumer' is not getting 'ripped off', American manufacturing is not be sent away to another country. Its about taxing a US corporation.

 

[Brad Sallows]

• The tax is a 2% levy on the revenues of search engines, social media services and online marketplaces that derive value from U.K. users.

It's also, as stated, a tax on revenues, not on profits. That alone would be a sticking point.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Interesting take and watch

 

[HavokFour]

Trump offers immediate tariff relief to Canadian aluminum and steel companies that commit to U.S. expansion​

Riddle me this, how does one move the lakes and rivers powering the aluminum smelters? They're the entire reason it's both cheap and viable up here.

This "offer" was also extended to Mexico.

The US is already having issues just powering all the datacenters being built, in both power generation and the overall sorry state of the electrical grid countrywide.

 

[Altair]

Trump offers immediate tariff relief to Canadian aluminum and steel companies that commit to U.S. expansion​

Riddle me this, how does one move the lakes and rivers powering the aluminum smelters? They're the entire reason it's both cheap and viable up here.

This "offer" was also extended to Mexico.

The US is already having issues just powering all the datacenters being built, in both power generation and the overall sorry state of the electrical grid countrywide.

I think I saw it posted here, but I'll say it anyways.

Trump put tariffs on Canadian Aluminium. Made it expensive. We shifted our trade to Europe. America bought their Aluminium from the gulf states as a result.

Now that the strait of Hormuz is closed...

 

[HavokFour]

Don't care much for the current federal NDP, but Kinew continues to be my favorite Premier of the bunch.

Manitoba won’t put U.S. liquor on shelves until Trump drops tariffs, releases Epstein files: Kinew

American liquor will only return to Manitoba store shelves if the U.S. drops all tariffs on Canadian goods, Wab Kinew said Friday.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

[HavokFour]

Here we go again.

However it'll be a little different, to avoid a repeat of what happened and what was said during his last visit.

The Canadian Embassy confirms it will have a representative in attendance.

Conservative MP Jamil Jivani returns to Washington to meet with U.S. trade rep

During a previous trip to the U.S. capital earlier in the year, Jivani met his longtime friend Vice-President JD Vance and stopped by the White House, where he said he

www.thestar.com

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[HavokFour]

Carney says there's only 'one negotiator' with the U.S. after Conservative MP's latest trip to Washington​

Interesting bit at the tail end of this article, at an event that included Jivani and 39 others.

Unsurprisingly they do need something from Canada, and would very much rather that boat not be rocked.

The meeting lasted more than an hour, and the sources who were not authorized to speak publicly about what was said told CP that Greer also told attendees that the Trump administration is not looking to disrupt the energy relationship between the two countries.

According to the sources, Greer said the United States is looking to work with Canada on energy and critical minerals development in ways that are mutually beneficial.

Greer also said Canada should not attempt to use those resources as leverage during the upcoming review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, the sources said.