This is a sad commentary about how perverted the Trump plan to "Make Americas Great Again!" is doing an about face. Canada and Mexico are Americas closest trade partners and now this road block is thrown down by the White House. I sincerely hope both nations will respond in kind and impose tariffs on major items the export to the US.
Us imposes steel/aluminum tariffs
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Geography puts us in a bind. When it comes to software or any nontangible product sellable online like apps for example, we can sell those worldwide. But as soon as we throw transportation costs into the mixt, the US is our most beneficial trading partner due to population and proximity (all other factors being equal). that said, all things aren't equal right now. The US doesn't want to trade with us. Now had Trump picked a trade war with Canada only, we would have found ourselves in a tough spot. The good news is, Trump wasn't that smart. he picked a trade war with Canada, the EU, Mexico, China, and others I'm sure. So now the US faces multi-front retaliation. This puts more pressure on the US to smarten up.
That said, though the US is and will remain our most important trading partner, we should never sign an exclusive bilateral trade deal with the US ever again. Any future trade deal should be an open agreement allowing either partner to trade with any other state we want to trade with. So no more country-of-origin provisions for example. No US trade agreement with Canada should restrict Canada's freedom to trade with other states too, and the same should apply in reverse too.
I disagree. That will just aggravate the situation. Instead, they should not retaliate and Canadians and Mexicans should just boycott the US at the grassroots. The EU and China should join in this. No legal retaliation, just people freely choosing to boycott the US.
Brilliant.....and people effective. No wars needed.
and totally counter aggressive. I am in.;-)
Very well put. AGREE.!!!
Nothing overly AGGRESSIVE.....nothing "legal"........ just people power. I tis the consumer that matters in all this anyhow.
Mass mailings.....coming up. I want to phrase it in the most effective and positive light possible. It is a nothing to lose proposition......
and if no NON American substitute.......do without.;-)
Hmm. I have friends in Scotland.....who are quite politically active...... in a non aggressive way. ;-)
That's an understatement. If my memory serves me, that last 'Art of the Deal' led to the deaths of millions.
Seems like Walter doesn't know the history of war and carnage that the last bout or protectionism led to. Those who don't know history are bound to repeat it.
Or you can just cut a few thousand worthless bureaucraps off the public tit.
Eliminating subsidies to bankrupt solar power companies would go a long way as well.
Good luck with that. Canadian lefties are so protectionist that you can't even transposer a case of beer from one province to another.
But Obummer had social license to kill our Forest industry becasue well you know the trees in Canada need protecting so US timberbarrons can make healthy campaign contrabutions.
You truly have no clue about commerce.
See above.
Sounds like the perfect opportunity for a Canadian re-make of Smokey and the Bandit.
Somebody call Paul Gross.
Just as soon as they Ake a solar powered semi. Wouldn't want any carbon spewing diesel in the environmentally friendly film industry.
A lot of the fresh food on our tables originates in the US, most of the year round.
ah yes, food - guess that would be the exception wouldn't it LOL. Guess we need to start growing more of our own via individual greenhouses
Not a bad plan, I would say. We used to feed the British Empire and we have lost the ability to feed ourselves. We've paved over a lot of our best farm land. My grandfather was a fruit farmer who grew cherries, peachs, plums, pears, apples and grapes for processing, canning and fresh consumption. Canning and processing left Canada decades ago. Fresh consumption is pretty time-limited. That agricultural area is now either paved over or totally covered in vinyards for wine production (a noble pursuit, I will grant you but not a strategically necessary one). The world and this country would be a better place if we grew more of our own food, again.
It's the best farmland in Canada with the best local maritime climate to go with it, all on the same lattitude as Florence, Italy. That's one of the reasons why there's a large city here but the monster has consumed it's own ability to feed itsself.
I have my victory garden ... all 160 square feet of it.
It's better than nought and it is surprisingly productive. My grandfather whispers in my ear as I plant it, every year.