‘No room left for Mexico or Canada’ to make a deal, Trump says

U.S. President Donald Trump says his long-threatened trade war is going ahead with tariffs on Canadian goods set to take effect just after midnight and there’s nothing Canada can do to stop them.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said the United States has been “a laughingstock for years and years” and he needs to take trade action against its continental neighbours.

He said Canada has allowed fentanyl to flood into the U.S. despite data that shows the claim is false.

“Very importantly, tomorrow, tariffs, 25 per cent on Canada and 25 per cent on Mexico, and that will start. So, they’re gonna have to have a tariff,” Trump said.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    Is the end goal here is to bolster our own economy by making US goods prohibitively expensive for Canadian citizens to buy, in turn making Canadians more likely to purchase Canadian goods (which is what we are trying to do anyway)?

    The end goal of retaliatory tariffs are to make US businesses lobby their government to have our tariffs removed so that they can resume sales.

    We should put export tariffs on energy and other critical goods that US needs in order to raise US inflation without cost to Canadian consumers, and with a boost to Canada revenues. It is the US consumer impact that would affect popular opinion against the tariffs.

    FFS, we should make sure China buys our agriculture instead of US agriculture.