Breaking News: President-elect Donald Trump said that he would impose a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico on his first day in office, a move that would scramble North American supply chains and impose heavy costs on businesses around the continent.
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Pretty sure the US has the fentanyl production scene dominated in North America, let’s hit them with reciprocal tariffs that we’ll lift when the US gets illegal firearms under control!
NAFTA was never meant to help the American working class. I’m surprised to see so many people against bringing manufacturing and jobs back to the US! 10 years ago this would have been a Bernie supporter’s dream come true.
Many US companies (I repeat US companies) have some production in Mexico (i.e. Fender ), thus DT is going to tax these companies twice. Dear fellow Americans, who voted DT, congrats for this bs.
Well, things are about to get really bumpy. This reminds me when Milei told Argentinians we was planning on "dollarinzing" their currency, and they thought that meant they would now earn their wages in dollars. Brace for impact.
Not exactly what he said. He said that IF Mexico & Canada don't take mesures to ⬇️ the amount of fentanyl & illegal immigrants getting through to the US, he would apply those tariffs. Sounds more like a public way to negociate... Trump rarely does what he says he will anyway! 🤷♀️🤦♀️
#Trump looks like a #Mercantilist. They view trade as a means of supporting domestic production and employment, and prefer to spur exports rather than imports. They do not like cheap imports at all, even though they can lower local business input costs. State capitalism? Cronyism?
If he does this his presidency is mortally wounded from day 1. 70 pct of products on amazon come from china. 50pct of Tesla parts come from china and Mexico. Couple this with lowering taxes? Inflation 4-5 pct.
One would think that there has to be a least one person in his entourage cadre of misfit toys, that has some fundamental understanding of economics and how tariffs work.
Canada imports mostly from US and Mexico while it exports Oil, timber and dairy. If trade with China is your target, you are blowing hot air with Canada and Mexico. The orange has to deliver a few quick fixes to win his fans.. so will do max visual damage that he can play to rile them up..
If people were angry about inflation under Biden they haven't seen nothing yet. I don't what to hear their moaning a complaining. They got what they voted for.
I was thinking about that…evidently his some in his base was surveyed and already think he has improved the economy despite not being in office yet. Will he simply announce on 1/19 that his threats worked and the fentanyl flow has slowed to a trickle so he won’t impose tariffs after all?
Trump legacy:
1/BRIC’s will expand even more
2/ China will sound “democratic”
3/ China together with an expanded BRIC’s will promote “come & trade with us now & leave US tariffs ..hey! We have biiiillions of consumers!”
4/In 2028,US will be the replica of North Korea.
Weeeel done Trump indeed…
Sadly, at the end of the day, most of the American people are severely undereducated. We take things at face value with little to no research or urgency to make sense of our world. I mean, there was a Google search spike, on Nov. 5th, asking “did Biden drop out?”
I'm often fond of saying that ignorance is a choice in the Information Age.
But there's so much junk information and counter ops for the average person to sift through, some of this is a result of late stage capitalism(info economy) where average joe after 2 shifts mentally collapses on the couch.
Indeed, from what he says, I don't think Trump understands how tariffs work. It's the US importers, and therefore civilians, who will pay this tariff, NOT Canada, Mexico,China or any other country.
so the USMCA free trade treaty trump negotiated doesn't mean squat.
he unilaterally breaks treaties whenever he want.
Other countries will ask if any treaty with the US is worth the paper its written on.
it would violate the USMCA free trade agreement that HE negotiated in his last term. 🤦🏻♀️ realistically, he's probably using these tariffs as a coercive tactic to get concessions he wants in USMCA's 2026 review, but who knows if he thinks that strategically or that far ahead...
I've read a few Japanese papers and they seem as reliable as anyone else.
Do you use the News feed? You get the stories as they come out. pretty awesome.
Get ready to open up your wallets on Jan. 20th as prices will rise. Musk said you’re going to feel the pain. He wasn’t kidding and Trump (who still doesn’t understand how tariffs work) wasn’t kidding. The idiots who voted for him didn’t believe it. A great example of elections having consequences.
Canada’s annual US bound Direct investments are worth more than we export in goods trade to US, more than $1/2 trillion/yr.
Think about that. Think about the US economic activity that won’t happen without it.
Нас Байден сортирует в США? и скидывает в СССР насиловать неграми, не в США же
нас как детей ниже сортируют цветом волос кого насиловать дальше, а кого достаточно и это моя история, от этого генетически все ненавидят насильников. Негры, насильники моей мамы сказали что цвет мокко можно оставить
Good comparison. And we’re still suffering. Except for the rich, of course, who are currently up in arms because they are being asked to pay more tax to pay for repairing the country.
A good amt. veggies,such as potatoes & carrots are from 🇨🇦 believe it or not.
These make up a big portion of what Vermont FoodBank gets & we distribute to our clients.
Usage up 250% from 3 yrs ago
Now food supplies will be down. Majority of our clients either didn’t vote or voted donnie.
Oopsies 🆘
Yes… it really is an ethical dilemma(for me) but I guess it’s lucky I don’t make the rules 😑
I have practice with this…when I worked (RN) I had to put aside these personal feelings so many times.
I don’t think Trump knows how beneficial having us as a neighbour is. At this rate America will only have good trade relations with Hungary, North Korea, and Russia. If one of two major parties can no longer be trusted, time for us to start a commonwealth union or something.
Mexico and Canada should make no effort to appease Trump. If he is forced to keep tariffs in place it will be very unpopular and he will be forced to back off. That would be a huge embarrassment for him.
Seriously what is his end game with the tariffs? How does this benefit anyone? Tariffs are a good way to get people to buy American, which might be meaningful of we still had a manufacturing-based economy.
The US imports more than $14 billion in fertilizer from Canada each year. Farms will go bankrupt because they won't be able to afford the cost increases.
Isn't he the one last time around who played the macho tough guy who just had renegotiate NAFTA with Canada & Mexico to get the best trade deal in the history of history, a great deal, a wonderful deal, a deal like, frankly, nobody has ever seen with numbers like these before?
Yep. His trade plan tanked And despite his breathtaking acts of cruelty in separating children from their parents during his last administration (and I smell Nazi boy Stephen Miller behind that one), he also never closed the borders. I don’t know why so many people believe in fairy tales.
I mean, the small print that the companies pay the tariffs and the costs are passed onto consumers, might have be worth lifting the paywall to help us avoid an autocratic dictator but ho hum, no biggie to inform the public when you can make a few bucks extra.
For you beer drinkers: Modelo, Dos Equis, Pacifico, Corona, and Tecate (Mexican) beers will go up in price, too! MAGA will have to go back to Bud Light and mess up their boycott!! 🤣
Funny how Trump supporters don’t seem to understand or care of the impact of Trump’s Tariffs. They seem to have forgotten how farmers had to be bailed out with government subsidies during his last term over his Tariffs.
Trump is dumb enough to say anything…..he will also back off when he realizes that this will drive more inflation than just about anything else he can do.
Ouch! If you are a North American, is highly educated, or skilled worker, willing to integrate into new culture and learn their language, don't mind the high income tax (you get free healthcare and education, most Scandinavian countries welcomes you. Including my country, Sweden.
He said a 25% tariff on all Mexican and Canadian products until they do their part in stopping the flow of drugs and invaders into our country!
Don’t we all want to stop the drugs and criminals?!
Sounds great. America first stops all illegal gun traffic into Canada that is fuelling gang violence and killing innocent Canadians, or we slap a 25% export tariff on goods we ship to US.
The only light in all this trump magat darkness is his voters are going to suffer greatly too - and will get zero sympathy or support from all of us who did not vote for this magat horror show when they get exactly what they voted for.
our neighbors ...figures...mexico and Canada hold your nose and stay tough American s may capitulate but not you all this will be over ...trump thinks you are weak
Haven't renewed my passport, not going into the U.S. as long as Trump is president I'm exercising my Canada first right here in my own country, not buying anything from the U.S. either.
Hopefully, the tariff announcement will serve as an impetus for Canada, Mexico, China, India, Japan, and the EU to meet and begin to plan for a world less reliant on the USA and to begin to develop other markets and trade relationships. Time to call the bully’s bluff.
Breaking News: President-elect Trump said that he would impose a 25% TAX on CONSUMERS WHO PURCHASE GOODS ORIGINATING IN Canada and Mexico on his first day in office, a move that would scramble North American supply chains and impose high costs on businesses around the continent.
That's more like it
That's why the failure to codify rights or outlaw behavior previously curbed by standards or flat out shame, will bite even the political parties who MAY actually be less corrupt & likely DO agree with basic principles of humanity's duty to humanity...
Well, they forgot that Trump inherited Obama's long fix of the economy after it was ruined by Bush, and Biden inherited Trump economy after it was ruined in just 4 years of his administration
Don't worry, they'll just blame their failures on Dems, despite having a supermajority and being incredibly vocal with their plans.. and the redhats will all suddenly develop amnesia.
Because Dems don't put a name on their accomplishments. Behind the scene they have been doing a lot. All people need to do is do a research and see the data for themself, instead of believing manipulated chart posted online. Immigration being one of many https://youtu.be/HyzGkEV3p2g?si=88wYuarcCH2HQ21Y
Yes, it taught us that media organizations are led by Billionaires whose own special interests supercede the Public good.
This is why Tariffs and the impact of them was not fully explained stems from the chaos created by Citizens United which is destroying democracy.
Absolutely. Fixing the influence of money in politics and media is essential, policies like tariffs will otherwise keep benefiting the few over the many.
“The USMCA is the fairest, most balanced, and beneficial trade agreement we have ever signed into law. It’s the best agreement we’ve ever made,” he said in January 2020.
Also Trump: that was the worst trade deal let’s tear it up and add 25% across the board
DT 'said' but will claim victory before inaugural saying CN/MX/CA have made great strides in decreasing 'flows' putting out numbers his sycophants will repeat, repeat and repeat. DT will lie that these countries fear his shadow and backed down. ANY other figures will be deemed fake only to hurt HIM.
He just wants to destroy this country …but Mexico, Canada and China are not going to sit back and allow this …they will have their own tariffs and then what ???
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Made Trump fold in 9 months as businesses were going out of business.
Doing this to your biggest trading partner is tricky.
They couldn’t catch me anyway 🎅🏻
Congrats corporate America, you elected the dumb*ss who will screw all your supply chains.
Congrats also to the dumb*sses who will suffer from this inflationary idiocy, cause corps ain't gonna pay.
I predict it will lead to a New Great Depression and a Class War as the prelude to a new Civil War.
America suffers from Electile Dysfunction re power of fake news and corrupt politics
so, this threat is not a lie.
https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-publications/quick-facts/Fentanyl_FY21.pdf
1/BRIC’s will expand even more
2/ China will sound “democratic”
3/ China together with an expanded BRIC’s will promote “come & trade with us now & leave US tariffs ..hey! We have biiiillions of consumers!”
4/In 2028,US will be the replica of North Korea.
Weeeel done Trump indeed…
But there's so much junk information and counter ops for the average person to sift through, some of this is a result of late stage capitalism(info economy) where average joe after 2 shifts mentally collapses on the couch.
he unilaterally breaks treaties whenever he want.
Other countries will ask if any treaty with the US is worth the paper its written on.
They'll defend the lower quality of life so long as it means they "own the libs."
They'll defend handing our country over to oligarchs all for their fervor for their god-king, Cheetolini. #MIDTERMS
And closing businesses when Canada will retaliate in kind. Like last time.
Perhaps if your paper hadn’t spent so much time pretending he was a viable candidate, we wouldn’t be here.
Do you use the News feed? You get the stories as they come out. pretty awesome.
Think about that. Think about the US economic activity that won’t happen without it.
Обезьян же не жалко. Если мы их добьем. что вряд ли( а углём красили волосы
нас как детей ниже сортируют цветом волос кого насиловать дальше, а кого достаточно и это моя история, от этого генетически все ненавидят насильников. Негры, насильники моей мамы сказали что цвет мокко можно оставить
ещё. те кто с волосами темными и ещё европейской внешностью - тех предков насиловали негры китайцы индусы. от этого индо-европейцы как бы
от этого и смех что мы их шлюхи. Настоящих блондинов нет больше, всех насиловали и все ваши
Дональд. ДОН он может русский или испанец?
These make up a big portion of what Vermont FoodBank gets & we distribute to our clients.
Usage up 250% from 3 yrs ago
Now food supplies will be down. Majority of our clients either didn’t vote or voted donnie.
Oopsies 🆘
I have practice with this…when I worked (RN) I had to put aside these personal feelings so many times.
Trump to Canada: “25% tariff”
Canada: “No”
Trump: “Give us your water and I’ll remove the tariff”
Canada: “Ok”
So he fucked up?
Don’t we all want to stop the drugs and criminals?!
That's more like it
Seems not. 70 million with dementia.
Others won't do it at any cost.
The hardest thing to combat is 100 ppl w 100 separate reasons they're willing to do it, DESPITE X,Y&Z.
Ppl had their chance.
This is why Tariffs and the impact of them was not fully explained stems from the chaos created by Citizens United which is destroying democracy.
Also Trump: that was the worst trade deal let’s tear it up and add 25% across the board
Since 2023, the safe third country agreement was modified. We are sending them back. Is that the flow he wants to stop?