Trudeau announces 25 per cent retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods starting Tuesday

LeT's StArT a TrAdE wAr WiTh OuR AlLiEs -my fucking countrymen, apparently

I hate this fucking timeline

Here are some numbers to consider.

The US sold $441 billion worth of goods and services to Canada in 2024.

Canada sold $482 billion worth of goods and services to the US in 2024.

The US has a populating of 334.9 million people.

Canada has a population of 40.1 million people.

Per capita, every American man, woman, and child spent $1,316.81 on Canadian goods and services.

Candians spent $12,019. 95 on American good and services.

Who isn't pulling their weight in this trading relationship?

This isn't about illegal immigration and it isn't about the 20 lbs of fentanyl that tried to cross the border from Canada.

This is about the billionaire class raising taxes on the poor and raising prices for Americans.

Get ready, middle class, for our glorious new era of Trumpflation.

Trump is so horrible he got Americans to side with the country putting retaliatory tariffs on them.

Also it should be pointed out that Trump essentially declared war on an ally because he wanted to seize Canadian land.

Any talk about drug trafficking is silly since the first thing Trump did was pardon one of the biggest drug traffickers in the world, Ross Ulbricht

They should have made it 26%. Trump wouldn't be able to resist upping it to 27%, and they could just spend a day reaching the logical, yet stupid, conclusion to this mess.

I'm sure the Kamala timeline would have been Just As Bad (TM).

How are you going to have a trade war with a superpower? it's just a losing battle and it will hurt regular Canadians the most.

If this escalates, wait until Canada decides to stop buying US made weapon systems. It will be expensive and time consuming to retrain, but the US is not a reliable defense partner under the neo-Nazi GOP. The US MIC must see the writing on the wall.

American here.

Don't counter with tarrifs. Counter with embargoes. Trump loaded you a gun and handed it to you. Pull the fucking trigger already.

So from the conservative viewpoint, what is the rationale for the tariffs? Are people really supposed to believe it has something to do with fentanyl? Like do conservatives actually believe that or is there some other narrative besides Donald Trump is looking to flex his power?

Grow a spine and make it 100 percent. The quicker trumps masters learn it wont work the better.

honestly countries affected should just go the nuclear route and embargo the US. in retaliation. Canada especially.

Yes it will fuck both sides, but it'll get the point across these tariffs are stupid

Does this break/invalidate the existing free trade agreements between the countries? Does this mean that NAFTA and TRUMPFTA are now void?

Personnaly I would put a mirror tarrif. Tax the stuff going out to USA. Canadian economy will slow down, don't make life more expensive for Canadians. And that way Americans might notice it faster if they pay 50 percent more.

Hopefully this trade war doesn't devolve into an actual war....

As an American, I'm rooting for Canada.

But this all feels very by design of Putin to fracture US alliances.

https://youtu.be/lsO_SlA7E8k

The Trump administration says it put the tariffs in place to force China, Mexico and Canada to stop the spread and manufacturing of fentanyl, in addition to pressuring Canada and Mexico to limit any illegal immigration into the United States.

Can anyone else see any actual logic to this? Do the Trump Republicans really believe this, or are they just saying it? What do they really want to achieve, apart from Trump being able to see himself as a tough guy?

This is what we get now that prats are running the US economy on adolescent IQs and emotions.

So from my understanding and the consensus from Reddit/Lemmy when Trump first announced tariffs is this will only hurt consumers because the companies will pass the cost onto the consumer. Now that Canada is doing the same does this means that they are also passing a secret tax to their consumers as well? I'm not Canadian but I thought they were having a hard time with their economy right now so is this the best move to make for the consumer?

As an American, I don't see a choice. This is a trade war, shots were fired. I hope it's a short war.

Wouldn’t a subsidy or tax incentive for things produced domestically be a more beneficial way to combat tariffs?

Begun, the Bullshit Wars have.

Tat, meet Tit.

I order a decent amount of coffee from Canada and am pretty miffed about this on a personal level not to mention a philosophical one.

It's like "ok fine, we won't buy shit off eachother"

Last I checked US has a bunch of stuff they try to sell.

Good shove this shit down his throat.