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Summary
Trump announced that 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico will take effect on February 1, though a decision on including oil remains pending.
He justified the move by citing undocumented migration, fentanyl trafficking, and trade deficits.
Trump also hinted at new tariffs on China.
Canada and Mexico plan retaliatory measures while seeking to address U.S. concerns.
If oil imports are taxed, it could raise costs for businesses and consumers, potentially contradicting Trump’s pledge to reduce living expenses.
Yeah, as a Canadian I’m down with strengthening our trade with Mexico.
Problem there might be transport. You need to do it without crossing a US border.
How much shipping goes between Canada and Mexico?
Maybe the free trade would allow trains and the like to go right through the USA without selling anything?
Why would the US want to do that?
Isn’t that the whole.purpose of the free trade agreement?
You mean the free trade agreement that Trump is currently trying to tear down?
Hell, he’ll probably ask y’all to pay taxes on transport, even for things you aren’t selling here.
Right, but the tariffs will shoot that dead.
Only if sold in the US no? Not trying to be dense, but my understanding would be that it would apply to goods sold in the US not traveling through
I believe if a good enters a country it’s deemed as being imported, even if it’s getting exported immediately. At some ports they have areas where goods are deemed not to have entered the country and they can be put back on another ship. Drive it over “the border” though and suddenly you have to do all the paperwork and pay the bills.
I’m not aware of trains and trucks being considered as little bits of neutral territory moving across the country.
Ah. You still dont understand how the US works. Send a small bribe directly to the Trump family and you can do whatever you like. I suggest using Eric Trump. If Dems are in charge send a bribe to AIPAC and they will give the dems their allowance. Either way its probably not even expensive.
Pfft… just buy some $TRUMP crypto coin. The graft is all out in the open now.
Also the “uncommitted” got their way and got Trump into power. So now AIPAC conspiracy stuff is just straight up antisemitism now.
Being called an antisemite doesnt have the sting it used to. Now it just means anyone the genocidal state of Israel and their supporters disagree with in any way. Seems like weaponized language quickly loses meaning.
I think this has passed a lot of people by. When Trump announced his crypto scheme he was saying to the world “This is how you buy the power of the president with no paper trail”. Foreign powers can funnel billions through it for favours.
It’s corruption on a unprecedented scale, even for a political system that runs on continual “fund-raising”.