U.S. imposing 220% duty on Bombardier CSeries planes

[White_Unifier]

U.S. imposing 220% duty on Bombardier CSeries planes - Business - CBC News

I think the US was stupid to impose such a tariff since it will hurt the US just as much as it will Canada.

That said, there is a silver lining in this. Maybe it will make Canadian businesses think twice before begging the government for corporate welfare (i.e. subsidies).

 

[Durry]

The US gets extra duty money and it hurts them???? Who is the stupid one??

 

[White_Unifier]

The US gets extra duty money and it hurts them???? Who is the stupid one??

True, the US suffers less from it than Canada does since at least it's the US that collects the tax. If Canada must engage the US in a trade war, I'd propose a flat Canadian export tax of XUSD/KG and XUSD/KW. If the US wants to keep our products out, then we might as well be collecting that tax.

 

[lone wolf]

...but it was okay for Boeing to dump 707's all over the world to kill foreign aircraft industries

 

[White_Unifier]

...but it was okay for Boeing to dump 707's all over the world to kill foreign aircraft industries

That's a different matter. Canada never should have subsidized Bombardier. Even from a socialist standpoint, had Bombardier moved to a poorer country with a skilled and educated workforce, that could have helped it to distribute wealth to those countries. By making average Canadians pay taxes to subsidize rich CEOs to discourage them from moving their business to a poorer place stinks on every moral front.

 

[lone wolf]

What's different? Who made up for less-than-cost American airliners flying British banners? How many Saabs fly into Pearson?

The only thing different is my-shit-don't stink got a whiff of its own cess pool

 

[TenPenny]

Not very many.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Let's impose the same tariffs on all of the Boeing products. There is nothing that Boeing makes that Airbus doesn't also make.

That's a different matter. Canada never should have subsidized Bombardier. Even from a socialist standpoint, had Bombardier moved to a poorer country with a skilled and educated workforce, that could have helped it to distribute wealth to those countries. By making average Canadians pay taxes to subsidize rich CEOs to discourage them from moving their business to a poorer place stinks on every moral front.

The Americans susupidized Boeing, Lougheed, Mc Douglas and all the others in spades, over the years. There are airplane graveyards out in the desert full of thousands of NEVER FLOWN, NEVER USED airplanes ... literally thousands of them, all paid for by the public purse.. If that isn't a subsidy ...

This is just one more example of the usual bullshyte American Entitlement.

 

[taxslave]

That's a different matter. Canada never should have subsidized Bombardier. Even from a socialist standpoint, had Bombardier moved to a poorer country with a skilled and educated workforce, that could have helped it to distribute wealth to those countries. By making average Canadians pay taxes to subsidize rich CEOs to discourage them from moving their business to a poorer place stinks on every moral front.

That is Bombardier's only reason to exist. To create good pay cheques for otherwise unemployable machinists in Quebec.

 

[Curious Cdn]

That is Bombardier's only reason to exist. To create good pay cheques for otherwise unemployable machinists in Quebec.

It's just Quebec, is it? Theresa May was sure trying hard to hold on to those 5000 jobs at Bombardier's Short Brothers subsidiary in Belfast ... particularly considering that the keys to her coalition government are held by ten Northern Ireland seats.

Ontario companies get whacked too as do all sorts of American subcontractors. Canada isn't grown up enough to do high tech things like make aircraft, it would seem. Every other country that does subsidized that industry up the yinyang, morning noon and night but us paroquial Canadians behave like Calvanist beancounters all the while complaining about them Frenchees..

 

[Durry]

True, the US suffers less from it than Canada does since at least it's the US that collects the tax. If Canada must engage the US in a trade war, I'd propose a flat Canadian export tax of XUSD/KG and XUSD/KW. If the US wants to keep our products out, then we might as well be collecting that tax.

You're kind of a dumbo, I don't think anybody cares about your stupid proposals.

 

[Curious Cdn]

It will be interesting if, while trying to kill off Bombardier, the Yanks cause Theresa May's government to fall ... after all of the mewling and grovelling back there in London and the near DEMAND for Donald and Melania to see the Queen. There is a direct link between those thousands on Bombardier jobs in Belfast and May's future.

 

[MHz]

What to do, what to do? Burn it to the ground and collect the insurance.

 

[Bar Sinister]

Looks like Boeing is out of luck in its sale of aircraft to Canada. There are lots of other manufacturers who build warplanes.

 

[Curious Cdn]

It looks like we're headed for a wider trade war with the United States.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

It looks like we're headed for a wider trade war with the United States.

Nah, just wave something shiny at President Drunkuncle and tell him Boeing supports Black Lives Matter.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Nah, just wave something shiny at President Drunkuncle and tell him Boeing supports Black Lives Matter.

Just telling him that they're in Seattle might be enough.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Just telling him that they're in Seattle might be enough.

Good point. Seattle went for Clinton. One of three things President Drunkuncle knows about it, the other two being coffee and flannel.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Good point. Seattle went for Clinton. One of three things President Drunkuncle knows about it, the other two being coffee and flannel.

Then, there's that MSN thingy where all of the fake news comes from.

 

[taxslave]

The tarrifs on softwood lumber is of far greater concern than selling a couple of taxpayer subsidized planes.