tomahawk6 said:
Canada is at 270% on dairy so I am sure this is a ploy by Trump to see that reversed.
'Lies, damned lies, and statistics' they say...
So what is the issue, really...let's take a different look at things from the Trump Administration's focus on tariff percentages...
FACT*: The U.S. dairy industry exports 134% more, or
2.43 times the dairy products physically into Canada, than Canada exports to the U.S. Woah!
That's what some would call a physical trade surplus....for the U.S.! I thought Trump wanted to level all the surpluses/deficits? ??? Apparently only by the figures he chooses. Trump and the farmers of the U.S. dairy industry are probably quite happy
more than doubling the amount of Dairy exports they send North of the border, than Canada sends down.
Interesting that few to none really question the huge subsidies that the US Government provides American dairy farmers to allow them to charge such low prices pre-tariff. In many parts of the world, heavily-subsidized trade like that is called "dumping"...you know, like the U.S. forestry industry accuses the Canadian forestry industry of doing (yet the WTO says no)...but its okay to dump when it's America apparently.
All to say, that the issue is not quite the facile "remove the 'unfair' 270% tariff on our [heavily subsidized, but we'll never admit it] American dairy products" argument.
:2c:
Regards,
G2G
Fact refs: * - see "2017 - Dairy -
US to Canada.pdf below, column "KG, 2017", bottom row "TOTAL DAIRY PRODUCTS", amount:
145,329,818kg; an amount 2.34 times greater than the 62,196,598kg that Canada exports to the U.S. (see "2017 - Dairy -
Canada to US.pdf, same bottom KG-2017 cell)