Summary
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denounced Trump’s sudden 25% tariffs, warning they threaten American jobs and will inflate consumer costs.
He revealed that Trump refuses to take his calls and sharply criticized claims linking tariffs to illegal immigration and fentanyl crossing U.S. borders.
In retaliation, Canada and Mexico imposed matching tariffs, targeting crucial American exports like auto parts, agriculture, and red-state staples like famous Kentucky bourbon.
Trudeau warned American factories may shut, citing integrated supply chains.
Who would risk investing millions into a factory when you have no idea when your materials could be randomly taxed/tariffed. Was literally working on factory plans in Troy, MI when this put a permanent hold on it. Relying on Quebec aluminum like many others. No sense continuing if we have to use Chinese aluminum, just expand the China facility instead.
I work in automation in SEMI. My idiot conservative boss is convinced that this will help us by bringing manufacturing from Mexico.
Does he not know about the Mexico Tariffs? Is he planning to just become Mexican when the USA goes to shit?
He thinks it will make manufacturers come to MI because they won’t want to pay tariffs.
Minimum wage in MI is $10.25 USD PER HOUR, and the Mexico minimum wage PER DAY is supposedly $248.93 PESO equal to about 12 USD and potentially rising, so your boss
might have a point if the US workforce doesn’t just leave the country themselves.is wrong, the manufacturing is staying in Mexico.EDIT: Mexico minimum is per day not hour.
I had to look that up, because it didn’t sound right. Turns out it’s 248.93 pesos per day, not per hour
Ah shit you’re right, mb. Yeah, Manufacturing is staying in Mexico.
I was wrong with my numbers earlier, made an edit.
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Christ- mexico was becoming a good ally for manufacturing.
Lot of engineering is being shipped off to China since big companies like localization to prevent tariffs. Mexico was helping to soothe that.
We’re so fucked lol