5d ago

Carney 'disappointed' as Trump increases tariffs on Canada to 35%

www.bbc.com

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said he is "disappointed" by an increased tariff on some exports to the United States.

Donald Trump escalated a trade war by boosting the tariff rate from 25% to 35%, saying that Canada had "failed to cooperate" in curbing the flow of fentanyl and other drugs across the US border. The Canadian government says it is cracking down on drug gangs.

However most goods from Canada will dodge the import tax imposed by the US thanks to an existing trade treaty, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

Economists and financial analysts have warned that the new levies will raise prices for businesses and consumers in the US and weigh on the economy, predictions that the Trump administration has dismissed.

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Canada had "failed to cooperate" in curbing the flow of fentanyl and other drugs across the US border. The Canadian government says it is cracking down on drug gangs.
Hey, you hacks writing this: there is no massive flow of drugs going from Canada to the USA. Stop letting the orange rapist get away with this lie.
- Maybe the Americans could focus on keeping all their guns out of our country instead
  
  Considering the US government is one of the largest traffickers of firearms in the world, good luck with that one.
  People: stop that
  US Government:
- As well Canada has nothing to do with stopping people from bringing stuff across the border into the states.
  When you drive across the border, you are talking to American border control and they decide to let you in or not.
  It's America that needs to step up their security if they want to stop something from coming in, not Canada.
- Donald Trump escalated a trade war by boosting the tariff rate from 25% to 35%, saying that Canada had “failed to cooperate” in curbing the flow of fentanyl and other drugs across the US border. The Canadian government says it is cracking down on drug gangs.
  When you add the part of the sentence you removed back into it, it doesn't say that Canada has a massive flow of drugs heading across the border. Interesting how context matters and cherry picking helps no one eh?
  
  Hey, you hacks writing this: there is no massive flow of drugs going from Canada to the USA. Stop letting the orange rapist get away with this lie.
  Here's my original post again. I bolded the key part: it's Trump telling the lie, and the news organizations are credulously repeating it.
  This same article doesn't provide any pushback to this claim until much later in the article, and then it only says that, "Carney said Canada accounts for only about 1% of fentanyl imports into the US," instead of calling it what it is: a lie.
  This is what has my onions cheesed: that major news outlets are uncritically repeating all the fetid slop that spews from Trump's mouth. Another example was the 'Governor Trudeau' bit from a few months ago, where I saw one clip of a gormless CNN anchor nod their empty head and chuckle as Trump's lapdog displayed the most wanton disregard for civility and the truth.
“Elbows disappointed” isn’t really t-shirt material. I’m hoping for a stronger response soon.
- The reality is that the 35% tariff doesn't actually amount to much since USCMA/NAFTA basically shields 80-90% of Canadian goods.
  The nasty ones are the processed lumber, steel and aluminium tariffs.
- However most goods from Canada will dodge the import tax imposed by the US thanks to an existing trade treaty, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
  Perhaps the stronger response is not coming.
- That's up to us now I feel. I've been avoiding the USA and their products since the tariff bullshit began. As long as the citizens are united, we can show them.
- Maybe he will type out a strongly worded letter and even slam him if things continue on.
- Here go
- His strategy is bond pressure. Considering CA Intel services work for a living they probably already have a copy of that NSA report the election was stolen and are changing strategy.
The experiment is over! Let's just move on and take care of our own affairs - increase domestic trade and improve relations in other markets to diversify our economy. We don't need this $h!t. Let's keep lines of communications with the US open but move them down on our priority list (only because we're not a$$h0les).
- We should be converting to electric train manufacturing for Chinese levels of public transit. A Canada ready for climate change doesn't need much of an auto industry. Electric cars are for the rich and low density rural areas. We need Chinese levels of electric train building now. Public Transit on electric subways and trams, regional transit on higher speed electric trains and high-speed bullet trains on high density corridors.
  Fuck the US's Steel and Aluminum tarrifs and Fuck the US auto Industry.
  Let's build an affordable utilitarian EV industry that builds 1 pickup and 1 ~~sedan~~ hatchback and 1 minivan to meet most of Canada's rural needs and then lets use our Aluminum and Steel to build the Transit of the future right fucking now.
  I don't want to sell copper, aluminum or steel to the states when we have such tremendous nationbuilding to do at home.
  
  Also a hatchback please.
Appeasing fascists has never worked and never will work. They will never stop and they will take any attempt at compromise as weakness and it'll encourage them to increase the pressure. It was like that with Hitler. It's like that with Putin and it's exactly the same pattern with Trump, even if it hasn't escalated into military confrontation yet.
I wonder what be the effect if Canada enacted an additional tax on exports of certain products to USA particularly needed by US (lumber, foods, fertilizer) so that the bumped up price increases don't all go to Trump's tax cuts for wealthy?
- And use the resulting funds to make refunds later to exporters in proportion to how much they ship those same items to non-US countries. Make it cheaper for EU, etcetera, to get those things and establish trade patterns.
Who cares about Epstein? I mean we got Canadian tariffs to worry about over here! Guys. Cmon. Look at the Clinton’s! Look at Obama! Tariffs!! The bigliest!! Forget about Epstein bro, look at this thumbnail of a boat!
- Unfortunately Trump didn’t have the privilege of going to pedophile island to fuck children with Jeffrey Epstein, who stole Trump’s underage girls from Maralago whom he immediately gave up on looking for and which he never felt compelled to report.
  Jeffrey Epstein was a great guy and a lot of fun, and some people say he even likes women almost as much as Trump, and many of them are on the younger side.
  It really is a shame that after spending all that time together objectifying young women at elite parties for the rich, Jeffrey Epstein turned out to be such a prolific objectifier of young girls for the wealthy elite.
  How could Trump have seen this coming?
  Only 99% of the signs were there!
That's what you get for trying to recognize a nation that were trying to genocide.

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