Exclusive-Trump would impose 25% tariffs on oil from Mexico and Canada under trade plan, sources say
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She just did.
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On the bright side, 99% of Canadians will be immediately priced out of driving a ICE car, so at least we won’t have to worry about that anymore
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The environmentalist in me is rather happy to hear this. Frankly, 25% is too low. Trump may be crazy, but if his trade war(s) mean higher prices on fuel for the biggest driver of climate change on the planet, I’ll take it
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If the orange idiot goes through with it I hope the Canadian Government rolls out the list of tarrifs they used last time targeting states that supported this.
I’d also love to see the following on the list of retaliation tactics
Time to invalidate any and all us owned drug patents in Canada, and encourage generic companies to go hog wild
While we are at it reduce maximum damages from IP infringement claims from media agencies to a nominal 20-100 $ fee or lower in response
Regulations on foreign house ownership would be a popular thing to play with just not sure how. But could be funny to see any trump owned or trump family adjacent properties taxed heavily and foreclosed/ eminent domained
The government should also put in place road blocks to refuse to tell the IRS any banking details of any Canadian accounts and tell them to pound sand or take years individually replying manually to any requests to see any US citizen accounts in Canada. Why bother helping them collect taxes.
Also would love to see trump refused entry at the border for the lulz
Anyway hopefully smarter people have appropriate counter measures for this. Tit for tat sucks but hopefully embarrassing/ appropriate retaliatory responses.
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No, that kinda fucks over most of us who are just getting by. If someone can’t afford to buy gas how would they be able to afford an EV? We need the prices to drop to a level everyone wants to buy an EV, not make every option cripplingly expensive.
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I like your anti-IP ideas. 🥲
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Only if corporate isn’t making money from the new regime. Otherwise it’ll be just vibes of cost of living
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You know, in this context it’s a bit refreshing to see Doug Ford’s reaction to this. Proactively whining at Trump instead of shitting on Trudeau. I’m a bit surprised by his take.
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Why is that? We would be able to import the US parts needed to build cars domestically as we do today. The tariffs would affect domestic production going back to the States. Even if Canadian autos go belly up because they can’t export to the States, we’d still be able to import US-made vehicles. What am I missing?
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Crab-bucket economics to go with crab-bucket foreign policy
Post-Soviet Russia is such a fuck-up of a nation-state that they only way they can look good is by dragging everyone else down to their level.
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Who’s going to print the Trump did this bowser stickers?
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Eh spare the IRS, its one of the most functional and least corrupt remaining bits of the US government and Trumps administration already tried to kill it last time.
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I’m probably wrong, but I’ve been speculating if the plan is:
- US imposes tariffs on its most valuable trading partners
- War in Ukraine “ends”; US stops sending weapons; Ukraine goes to Russia; US possibly threatens to pull out of NATO to accomplish this
- Tariffs stay in place for traditional US allies; US helps Russia rebuild economically by becoming its new best good trading buddy, tariff free of course.
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I think he’s just going to go to Russia for the fuel.
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These are all way better than any tariffs we could respond with.
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Pretty much every car built anywhere in North America has parts from at least 2 of the 3 countries, not to mention China. Sometimes parts end up going across the border multiple times before they end up as a fully assembled car.
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While I am kind of looking forward to the
show in Alberta over this, I just read that the USMCA forbids tarrifs on member countries. So, thanks to Drumpf, he legally cannot impose tarrifs on Canada or Mexico. -
This will make oil in the USA even more expensive, making alternate yet energy more attractive, and hopefully push us over peak oil. Assuming the USA has a domestic wind/solar industry…
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But can he illegally impose them?
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The guy has 34 felony counts on him, as is. What’s one more legal violation, at this point?
