President Donald Trump said he would follow through on his threat to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico on Feb. 1, citing the flow of fentanyl and large trade deficits as among the reasons for his decision.

This dummy doesn’t even have demands. Hopefully the rest of the continent holds out and demonstrates to the US its dependency on its neighbors.

  • CleverOleg [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    27·
    3 days ago

    The “reason” is Trump is using tariffs as a negotiating tactic. The US has a lot of leverage on the rest of the world; it’s just never used because destroying your soft power is a bad long term strategy. Trump thinks either Canada will accept tariffs and thus get a bunch of free money from Canada, or that the tariffs will cause Canada to give up “something” in renegotiating trade terms.

    • someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      17·
      2 days ago

      or that the tariffs will cause Canada to give up “something” in renegotiating trade terms.

      The American dairy industry has been salivating at having access to Canada for decades. They’ve been successfully kept out so far because domestic farmers want to maintain higher prices and because everyone else wants some basic quality control in dairy products.

    • sexywheat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      or that the tariffs will cause Canada to give up “something”

      We’re all kind of nervously laughing up here when the Burger Reichers keep saying “51st state”

      You’re joking, right? It’s a joke? anakin-padme-2