The Tarriff Hype.
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$7 for a chocolate bar? it better be damn good.
92g Lake Ontario Canada Bar
Ingredients: Milk chocolate (sugar, whole milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, soy lecithin, natural vanilla flavour), Filling (Vegetable oil [palm and/or sunflower and/or rapeseed], nonfat dry milk, lactose [milk], soy lecithin, natural and artificial maple flavours). Contains: Milk, Soy...peacebychocolate.ca
It better be bigger than my shoe.
The conflict between the Canadian and U.S. government has evolved from a trade war into a war of words.
After days of strident comments and insults towards Canada from multiple U.S. government officials, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Americans should “stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough, and start being serious.”
The prime minister was reacting Tuesday to various insults and online memes lobbed at Canada from Trump government officials as the dust settles on the failed bilateral negotiations and renewed trade war between both countries.
Carney tells U.S. to stop 'doing memes' and 'throwing shade' as war of words escalates — National Post
'It's beneath their office,' Carney grumbled to reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday
sadly its only 92g.It better be bigger than my shoe.
The conflict between the Canadian and U.S. government has evolved from a trade war into a war of words.
After days of strident comments and insults towards Canada from multiple U.S. government officials, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Americans should “stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough, and start being serious.”
The prime minister was reacting Tuesday to various insults and online memes lobbed at Canada from Trump government officials as the dust settles on the failed bilateral negotiations and renewed trade war between both countries.
I believe there was some American official that was also complaining about Doug Ford for the same thing…
Carney tells U.S. to stop 'doing memes' and 'throwing shade' as war of words escalates — National Post
'It's beneath their office,' Carney grumbled to reporters in Ottawa on Tuesdayapple.news
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is set to introduce legislation to stop U.S. President Donald Trump's latest tariffs as Democrats ramp up their affordability messaging ahead of midterm elections.
The new bill backed by the Democrat from New York attempts to rein in the latest tariffs on Canadian goods and the separate duties the Trump administration says are linked to non-American forced labour in supply chains. A coalition of U.S. states is already challenging the use of Section 301 for the forced-labour duties so he’ll have to make something else up. The legislation is largely symbolic, since it's unlikely to pass a Republican-controlled Congress or overcome Trump's presidential veto.
Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego, a Democrat, came to Ottawa on Tuesday to share the message that many Americans disagree with Trump and his "dumb" tariffs targeting Canada. He said there should be technical and specific trade talks, like the CUSMA negotiations that took place during the first Trump administration. "I'd rather be doing that than this tariff policy, which is basically being done by Twitter," Gallego said.
Schumer's new legislation — which would repeal both sets of tariffs and require refunds — comes as polling shows that Trump's tariffs on Canada and the president's executive order renaming Lake Ontario as "Lake America" are widely unpopular.
The bilateral tensions could prove to be a boon for Democrats in high-stakes contests in states that do substantial trade with Canada, including Michigan, Maine and Ohio. Some Republicans are already breaking away from Trump's trade policy and messages disparaging Canada.
Schumer's bill is co-sponsored by 13 other Senate Democrats, including Ron Wyden of Oregon. They've called repeatedly for Congress to take back its power over taxes and tariffs from the executive branch.
"Congress has to stand up to Trump, end his trade war with Canada and repeal the outdated law he's using to tax nearly everything we need to get by," Wyden said in the news release. U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell and 87 other congressional representatives have written a letter to Trump calling on his administration to recognize the importance of the U.S.-Canada relationship.
“Canada is not an adversary. Canada is a close friend, neighbor, ally, and economic partner whose security and prosperity is deeply intertwined with the United States," the letter said. "Your Administration’s escalating and chaotic use of trade barriers against Canada is putting this relationship at serious risk." The letter said tariffs and "increasingly adversarial rhetoric" are creating uncertainty for businesses, workers, farmers and consumers on both sides of the border.
Schumer to introduce bill targeting Trump's latest tariffs on Canada — The Canadian Press
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is set to introduce legislation to stop
The Liberal government is planning to impose countertariffs on U.S. goods valued at $27.6-billion as of Sept. 8. This is in response to Mr. Trump’s new 50-per-cent tariffs on about $28-billion worth of Canadian goods, imposed after trade negotiations between the two countries collapsed on Aug. 21.
Ottawa open to resuming trade talks once U.S. changes its tone, Carney says — The Globe and Mail
Prime Minister credits by-election victories to nationwide support for his government’s approach to trade and the economy
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Politico on Monday that Canada could see additional tariffs, “and you could see import bans or prohibitions similar to the ones that Canada has imposed on us earlier. The comment appears to be a reference to restrictions imposed by most provinces related to the sale of U.S. alcohol. Mr. Greer’s office did not immediately respond to a question about which products could be affected and when.
Asked what conditions would be required for the U.S. to return to the negotiating table, he said there is not “a better deal out there available for the Canadians.” The President’s trade agenda is facing pushback from Democrats ahead of the November midterm elections, where Mr. Trump’s Republican Party is at risk of losing control of the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate as well.
How Trump’s trade war with Canada threatens Michigan — MS NOW
As a critical Senate race is taking place in Michigan, the state is feeling the impact of Trump’s trade war with Canada. Alex Wagner, MS NOW Senior Political Analyst and host of Runaway Country on Crooked; Catherine Rampell, MS NOW Analyst and Economics Editor at The Bulwark; and Molly-Jong...
This from the American finance minister over a trade and Trump tariffs dispute? How quickly that mentality turns to an American military option or implied threat there of.
The Donroe Doctrine
Donald Trump has ditched MAGA isolationism in favour of the Monroe Doctrine, a 200-year-old foreign-policy roadmap that claims American power and influence over the Western Hemisphere. There are 35 sovereign states in the Americas, most of which are entirely or mostly in the Western Hemisphere...
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Among these cases, the rollback of Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1934 is perhaps the most instructive – not least because Section 338 of that Act is the basis for Mr. Trump’s new 50-per-cent levy on some $28-billion worth of Canadian goods.
As the Smoot-Hawley tariffs took their bite into personal incomes and national wealth during the Great Depression, domestic political pressure to ease trade restrictions grew. Democratic candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1932 election campaign included a commitment to lower import taxes to revive commerce. After winning the election, Roosevelt was able to overcome resistance even within his own party to secure Congressional approval granting the president the authority to negotiate reciprocal tariff reductions with the U.S.’s trading partners.
Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act - Wikipedia
Opinion: Don’t worry, Canada. The trade war will end, and end quickly — The Globe and Mail
Negotiations don’t end tariff wars. Changing domestic political tides and power shifts do.