The Tarriff Hype.

petros

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Pretty sure we have that in Canada at least 30 fold, with about 25% being at least second generation Canadians. Interesting question will be (& not even these vehicles entering American commerce), will whoever owns these vehicles be able to just cross the border to go get a jug of milk or take a weekend vacation in the U.S. while driving one?
Go to the US? Nah. Furthest they'll go is the outlet mall.
 

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Pretty sure we have that in Canada at least 30 fold, with about 25% being at least second generation Canadians. Interesting question will be (& not even these vehicles entering American commerce), will whoever owns these vehicles be able to just cross the border to go get a jug of milk or take a weekend vacation in the U.S. while driving one?
Yikes , good point . Never crossed my mind .
 
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What the Shit? Are this dudes meds conflicting?
I guess almost three hours have passed.
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If Trump’s eating spicy food tonight, I can’t even imagine what his 3 AM toilet tweets are gonna be like on truth social. I’m putting my $0.05 bet on my bingo card that he’s going to threaten to tariff Antarctica and threaten to invade (& annex) Lichtenstein.
(YouTube & Canada and China are doing way more trade together now)
Trump is renowned for changing his mind. This is nothing new.
 

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What the Shit? Are this dudes meds conflicting?
I guess almost three hours have passed.
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If Trump’s eating spicy food tonight, I can’t even imagine what his 3 AM toilet tweets are gonna be like on truth social. I’m putting my $0.05 bet on my bingo card that he’s going to threaten to tariff Antarctica and threaten to invade (& annex) Lichtenstein.
(YouTube & Canada and China are doing way more trade together now)
He says shit then the lawyers make him retract it and say "potash" to remind him of no food.
 

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…& America might want to look at which country is its biggest export market for the automotive industry…& what that’s worth in USD. That too can change much like Canadian booze preferences, just not as quickly.

Anyway, Donald Trump appeared to blank on a vow he previously made to Americans during an interview with The New York Times. In audio from the sit-down last week that has since gone viral, Times reporter Katie Rogers asked Trump when Americans could expect to receive the $2,000 checks he had promised, funded “based off of your tariff revenues.”
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Trump responded: “I did do that? When did I do that?”

“Well, I mean…,” Rogers began.
{Earlier in his second term, Trump similarly floated the idea of sending Americans $5,000 dividend checks using public funds saved through spending cuts and job reductions overseen by billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Those checks are still not in the mail…but that’s potentially a different story}
Or, they could actually be in the mail. No guarantee of delivery.
 

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Under what appears to be a one-way deal at this point, Carney said Canada will allow 49,000 Chinese-made electric vehicles into the country at a tariff rate of 6.1%. Carney characterized the 49,000 cap as a return to what Canada allowed into the country before the tariffs were imposed in 2024.

He also noted that it amounts to less than 3% of the new cars sold in Canada in any given year.

While we dropped our EV tariffs, China has not done the same on canola, lobsters, crabs, and peas. If China does reduce or lift their tariffs on Canadian agricultural goods, there is only an allusion to those tariffs being lifted from March 1 until the end of 2026, no real commitments beyond there. On canola, it would also still be a 15% tariff on seed exports. Mark Carney said on Friday that China was a more reliable and predictable trading partner than the United States.
Letting in 49000 cars a year makes the trade deal work. I didn't see anywhere that said Canadians have to buy even 1 of those cars.
 
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Letting in 49000 cars a year makes the trade deal work. I didn't see anywhere that said Canadians have to buy even 1 of those cars.
The cars will be purchased by various governments and their institutions. That is probably close to their yearly needs .