There’s plenty of non-Trumpy places in FL as well
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If Canada wants to continuously “dump” cheap goods on us year after year I’m confused what I’m meant to be upset about.
Maybe you are not upset but apparently some US politicians and business leaders are.
I would add that if the government provides significant cost support to a producer it could qualify as dumping. That is where it gets tricky.
Yes, sadly tariffs are back in vogue across the political spectrum in the US. I thought NAFTA was very good and in my experience no one read it, merely taking Trump’s word that it was a bad deal.
I agree. This is the reason that US milk exports to Canada could be regarded as dumping because of US farm subsidies: Canada in contrast has no government financial support to farmers.
The “reason” the US lumber lobby has given for Canadian lumber being dumped is the sourcing of timber. In Canada, most the timber is bought from Crown land under competitive auction. In the US, most of the timber is on private land owned by billionaires and/or large companies who charge more for their timber. If there was not a competitive bidding process in Canada, I would argue that there is a subsidy.
An analogy might be to slap tariffs on all Canadian products because we have a public healthcare system that is less expensive than the US private one. I have never bought that argument either.
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Poll out today shows Canadian Liberal Party Leader contender Mark Carney is favoured 39.6% to 26% over Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre to be the best Canadian leader to deal with Trump and his tariffs. Tariff threats could well be the main election issue here so the Conservative Party may be in a closer race than expected in our probable spring election.
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Targeting Japan now with Tariffs.
Posted on X of course.
I remember well the great ketchup war when Heinz closed its huge Leamington, Ontario factory in 2014 and moved that production to the US. A huge swell of support for French’s ketchup over Heinz resulted. To make a long story short, Heinz eventually went back to producing Ketchup in Canada in 2020.
This is one of many things that Trump doesn’t factor into his tariff war. If companies shift production to the US from Canada to avoid his tariff, the US could then lose Canada as a market. Canada could revert to its pre Canada-US free trade situation where there were many more smaller factories in Canada producing just for the Canadian market. Those factories shifted production to the US after the free trade agreement when the tariffs were removed.
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Sorry, but Trump DNGAF about what happens to others. He is not trying to get others to win. Hurting is more satisfying.
By Region. Kraft Heinz Statistics also show that the highest net sales in 2023 were captured by the North American region, resulting in USD 18.4 billion . Moreover, Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), with USD 3.9 billion, and Latin America, with USD 2.2 billion, were the second and third highest net sales regions.
Assuming Canada is ~10% of the NA sales, they represent less than 2/24.5B. I hope the drop in sales gets noticed, but on its own it seems unlikely to be particularly painful enough. Heinz would put much more than that at stake by saying anything negative about Trump and his tariff war.
Seems like Trump could take a chunk out of the 5.9 billion with additional tariffs and a similar response by the population. Perhaps French’s and other producers could capitalize on being non-USA producers of products
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I don’t care if they stay quiet about Trump. My question is wouid they move production from Canada to the US just to appease Trump? The jobs they would create in the US to sell ketchup to Canada could disappear if Canadians don’t buy their product after shutting down the Canadian plant.
25% on Steel and Aluminum now
Aluminum will hit Canada, while the Steel will be mostly from China/India/EU.
He did this in 2017 as well and then did an exemption for Canada because it was illegal under the free trade agreement. I don’t think he cares about international agreements this time around.
You’re figuring it out.
Is he even allowed to do this under the best agreement ever that he signed?
I.mean, did Trudeau once roast him, or something? That triggers his baby act.
Canada is the largest supplier of both aluminum and steel. Canada also imports aluminum from the US (5 billion vs 14 billion exported). The imported aluminum is from recycled sources which are becoming increasingly important…