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

[Halifax Tar]

So does that mean all the other countries around the world have already surrendered and we are just the last that may do so?

Unfortunately Jen isn't a member here, I don't think, so we can't ask her.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Unfortunately Jen isn't a member here, I don't think, so we can't ask her.

Doesn't matter, what I was stating is a fact. A fact that it seems others don't want to acknowledge or be aware of.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Doesn't matter, what I was stating is a fact. A fact that it seems others don't want to acknowledge or be aware of.

Ummm ok. #elbowsup!

 

[ModlrMike]

Ten weeks. We have to hold firm for ten weeks. If either, and certainly if both houses change hands, then that changes everything. A minority, lame duck president will be entirely different than what we have now.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Ten weeks. We have to hold firm for ten weeks. If either, and certainly if both houses change hands, then that changes everything. A minority, lame duck president will be entirely different than what we have now.

I hope that you are right.

 

[Brad Sallows]

They did have a deficit with the US, not ‘if’ and it still got them a 10% tariff against them.

The point is that if Trump thinks a trade balance has a win side ("surplus") and a loss side ("deficit"), he is taking the wrong position. Countries with trade deficits (US trade surplus) are the ones he should be going after, because being on the "deficit" side is theoretically the place to be.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Trade and the future of CUSMA isn't just in Trump's hands. Some people still think there's too much latitude for Chinese products to find their way into goods manufactured/assembled in Canada and Mexico and consequently enter the US enjoying the advantages of the trade deal. Their objections are also part of the mix. Regardless what anyone thinks the threshold numbers should be, the factor can't simply be wished away.