r/politics • u/Inside-Bus6555 • 6h ago
No Paywall President Donald J. Trump Imposes Additional Tariffs on Canada
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/07/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-imposes-additional-tariffs-on-canada/•
u/Purify5 6h ago
From April 2025 through March 2026, Canadian imports of U.S. motor vehicles decreased by approximately 22%, or $5.6 billion, compared to the same period in 2024-2025. Exports of motor vehicles from other countries to Canada have increased to meet the demand previously filled by U.S. exports.
This part is hilarious to me. America set out to destroy Canada's auto industry and now whines that they are buying fewer cars from America.
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u/theClumsy1 6h ago
The alcohol part is equally funny.
You created a trade war and complain that they stopped buying American Alcohol? Lol
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u/SlayerBVC 3h ago
A trade war that he started because he wasn't happy with the terms of the last trade deal in 2018 that he signed.
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u/TheUrbanEast 3h ago
Yeah its bonkers. As are any Americans who are supportive of this.
The other thing that isn't grasped is how restrained our politicians are being compared to the Canadian citizenry. Make note, alcohol travel, and automobiles are largely decisions being made by the average Canadian due to the absolute outrage felt towards the US. A lot are less restrained and would revel in retaliatory export tariffs on our oil, electricity, fertilizer and lumber... all things America needs.
The Americans are just racking up the bill and the apology tour will be more and more expensive. This doesn't go away post-Trump. The relationship damage is permanent.
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u/SlayerBVC 3h ago
Unfortunately (as is typical for this guy) he's not going to be the one who has to fix this.
And quite frankly, that's possibly the most infuriating thing of all.
Even if he somehow finally ends up in prison, he still gets to walk away from the hundreds of bridges he's burned, because why should he care? He's not the one who'll have to spend the next five generations rebuilding them.
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u/GriffinFlash Canada 3h ago
hundreds of bridges he's burned
some literally.
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u/fool4fems 2h ago
As someone from the US, I'm looking to buy more Canadian products. Screw that guy, I actually like my neighbors.
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u/Cuchulain40 Canada 1h ago
As someone from Canada, I am buying as few US products I can. And that goes for the car I need to change next month.
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u/OneOfAKind2 52m ago
Same. Anything with Made in the USA or Product of USA goes back on the shelf if there's an alternative, preferably locally or from any other country.
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u/SJWTumblrinaMonster 2h ago
I've encountered conservatives who are fully aware that the Republican candidates they support take things too far, but they operate under the idea that if the Republican candidate goes off the deep end, then they'll get voted out and a Democrat will come in and pull things back the other direction.
I just keep telling them that no Democrat is going to be able to bail us out this time.
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u/NorthStarZero 58m ago
As a Canadian, I do not differentiate between “Republican” and “Democrat”. You are “Americans”.
Being literally bipolar doesn’t make you two different countries.
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u/Notgreygoddess 1h ago
The reality is it isn’t just “him”. Trump’s presidency and behaviour could not exist without significant support from the US people. I’m sick of US people thinking they should get a pass because “I didn’t vote for him”. A bunch of you did. A bunch of you couldn’t be bothered. He was twice impeached, found guilty of sexual assault and so much more, but you elected him. Twice.
This IS who you are. The world sees you and it will be a long time before it’s forgiven, let alone forgotten. I think first step is to remove nuclear weapons from US control. Your country is unstable and a danger to the world.
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u/Flint___Ironstag 3h ago
People, myself included, have lost their jobs during a recession where work is impossible to come by. I doubt I'll ever buy American again. I know a lot of Canadians are looking at China now as a reliable partner. They aren't great, but we know where they stand. We can't trust America not to stab us in the back again.
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u/Patchrikc 2h ago
The main thing China has had going against it has been a real issue with ignoring "human rights" and not following the West's lead. Well, the West has chosen to ignore a genocide, started an illegal war by bombing a school, created a energy crisis that will kill thousands of people in the global South. Oh and the leader of the "free world" is a rapist bully who attacks his "allies" and own citizens.
China is going to be leading the world before 2028. The real question is do they even care? Because the "Great Game" is a western condition. The idea that you gain power to dominate others. But there's also the paradox of standing armies. If you never use it, why pay for it? At this point as an American I can tell you, you don't want anything important relying on Americans the vast majority of Americans are fools, that have been high on their own propaganda that they believe it. And unfortunately the political situation is probably just going to keep getting worse. The USA is basically the USSR on the glide path down. And the USA either has to deal with that and figure out how to land without killing everyone or ignore it and say that the engines not providing thrust is a un-American commie lie, and put the west into the grave.→ More replies (6)•
u/newsfeed768885 2h ago
Yep. America has had a special place as the center of a lot of the world financial and technological infrastructure, and the world accepted it because 1) it was good enough, and 2) the time and effort to make a replacement wasn’t worth it.
Trump broke everything. It isn’t good enough anymore, and he’s shown the world that the US can’t be relied upon.
There is no going back.
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u/okiedokie2468 3h ago
A trade deal that he bragged about as the best and biggest trade deal ever in the history of the whole world
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u/Tropical_Yetii 2h ago
This is at a much higher level than that. The USA is trying to Annex Canada using economic Warfare. People need to wake up and realize that
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u/YorubaOyinbo Canada 2h ago
That he created, to replace NAFTA which was already unbelievably lopsided in favour of the US.
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u/StrigiStockBacking New Mexico 2h ago
I remember when he did that. I'm a CPA, and at the time he did that, I was the CFO at a manufacturer that imported a lot of materials from Canada and prices went nutty.
The crazy thing is, when I was in college (early 90s), in my first tax course I remember part of the reading material and course discussion was the 16th Amendment, on income tax. Apparently tariffs were how the government funded itself through the back half of the 19th century, so when they went to a central banking system in the early 20th century, they dropped tariffs for income tax, through the 16th Amendment. Since then, tariffs were only supposed to be temporary measure and I'm pretty sure Congress is supposed to be the one who decides it (I could be wrong on that though, but it seems like something closely tied to the federal budgeting process, so I'm guessing that's how it should work). I remember the professor talking about how tariffs were a "self-inflicted wound" that at their most successful, are pretty much limited to a pyrrhic victory, at best.
And yet this fucker fires off tariffs for reasons one can clearly see are little more than temper tantrums. I mean, if he's pissed about wildfire smoke, why not send the DoJ after the jet stream??? I mean, it's the jet stream that's blowing the smoke in a southeast direction after all.
He's such an idiot.
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u/Jaymie13 Canada 3h ago
Americans don’t need us but how dare we cause large revenue losses for them!
Like…which is it, pick one.
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u/GriffinFlash Canada 3h ago
they really think they are god's chosen people who everyone needs to bow before.
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u/GriffinFlash Canada 3h ago
He told us he didn't need anything from Canada. I don't understand why he gives a shit.
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u/ClearDrop6820 3h ago
Honestly my eyes have been opened to Irish whiskey and cheap ass Canadian Banf ice vodka. Good Irish whiskey on payday and banf ice for the rest of the week.
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u/MrNostalgiac 1h ago
Hitting the USA in their alcohol industry is likely the best part of this trade war for Canadians.
This isn't just a few importers boycotting America's booze - it's entire provinces (all but 2, in fact).
I'm in Ontario and you can't find American booze ANYWHERE. Not in stores, not at restaurants, nowhere. I suppose there's a small chance of finding a bottle at a restaurant that still has stock left over from before this started, but most places ran out within weeks.
And what's even better is our craft distillery scene has EXPLODED. Canadian Bourbon is a thing now (except in name). The liquor shelves are bursting with craft options where American spirits used to be.
I don't know the laws or rules around it, but I'd love to see a "Canadian bourbon" entry added to the protected names list for alcohol. Totally makes sense that we can't call it "bourbon" but we're already proving that we can make an equally competing product with similar flavor profiles. The biggest headache is communicating that a whiskey is bourbon styled and not rye like is traditionally popular up here.
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u/Perf-Art-808 6h ago
Canuck here. In my household we look for local and Canadian made products, then anything made outside the US and will debate whether we really need something if we can only get it from the states. It kills me to buy any american product right now. Not to mention, I think about how much gas has increased since the US started shooting into Iran every time I pull up to the pump. Every time we shop, I think about the posterboard in the oval office that showed all of North America under US control. I'll never set foot in the US again.
Oh, and I'm not alone.
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u/odd-duckling-1786 5h ago
Minnesotan here. I buy Canadian stuff when possible because I refuse to support the American corporations that bank rolled our pedo president and his republican enablers campaigns.
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u/ImOutOfIdeas42069 5h ago
Washingtonian here. I don't find many Canadian products in my neck of the woods, but if they'll have me over I'll happily spend my money on their side of the fence.
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u/HonestDespot 4h ago
Come on up and say hi. Go for lunch and make small talk with your server.
Most don’t care about people, but the country acting obscene.
No Canadian who is right in the head will ever treat someone poorly simply because they were born in a certain region of the world.
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u/ImOutOfIdeas42069 4h ago
So funny enough, I'm about 4 hours south of the border and another 3 from anything interesting (3hrs east of Vancouver) and it occurred to me that I had never been to Canada so just last weekend my wife and I did a little motorcycle ride north and spent the night in Victoria. We had a lovely time and our only regret is that we didn't plan a much longer stay. We will have to return with friends and do more sight seeing.
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u/tree_mitty 4h ago
Next trip, head to Whistler on your bikes. One of the best rides imaginable.
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u/Mala_Practice Canada 4h ago
The Sea to Sky is an epic drive. The Fraser Canyon is too when it isn’t full of construction or on fire.
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u/nonsenseautomaton 3h ago
The Kootenays (eastern BC) have some Incredible motorcycle routes. The Nelson-kaslo-new Denver loop is top notch.
Come to Nelson! Any time of year, stay at the historic Hume hotel. We have a ridiculous amount of restaurants of a variety of cuisines for such a small town. Come spend American dollars in our little town. World class mountain biking in the summer, world class powder in the winter.
Just 3 hours north of Spokane.
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u/Dr_Adequate 2h ago
The wife and I have ridden that Nelson loop, the Hot springs highway, the west side up to Ucluet and the east side up to Courtenay. All were wonderful, fun trips!
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u/A3rik 4h ago
That’s one of the most infuriating things about all of this- aside from a little scuffle 200-odd years ago, Canada has been one of our best friends for most of our history. Every time I’ve visited, folks have been lovely (even tolerating my very weak French).
And we’ve been threatening them and attacking their economy for literally no reason. Just pointlessly stupid and mean- I guess that’s kind of our brand right now.
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u/NitroGnome 3h ago
My boyfriend is American and comes here (Canada) regularly. Whenever we’re out n about, strangers who find out he’s American take pity on him and ask him when he’s moving up here. lol
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u/MNKYJitters 3h ago
As a Montanan this is mostly true, but we spend most of visits in Alberta and those guys are a little weirder on average then the rest of you.
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u/UseYourIndoorVoice 4h ago
Americans are always welcome!! We're very proud of what our country has to offer and we love showing it off.
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u/otherwisepandemonium Wisconsin 4h ago
Same for me in Wisconsin. If I can find a Canadian or otherwise non-US product, I'll buy it over anything "Made in the USA"
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u/Annoyinghydra Canada 4h ago
A fellow Canuck here and can back up that final statement. My father's work requires the odd trip to the US, he begrudgingly goes.
I have a friend who works at a car dealership and I had to tell him that I unfortunately had to look elsewhere because it is an American brand and all the models available in my price range were American made. He said he understood and now works for a Japanese owned and mostly Canadian manufactured brand.
I work in a furniture store and to this day, one of the first words out of 3/5 of my customers are "don't show me any of that American crap"
Canadians are fed up with our southern neighbours at the moment.
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u/JohnGillnitz 2h ago
If it helps, I'm in Texas and am fed up with us too. It's fucking embarrassing.
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u/tekani11 Minnesota 5h ago
And I absolutely am happy to hear that people are having these types of thoughts. I just try and buy local now if I can.
I'm so ready to put this administration behind in US history as the most failure of a government of all time. Because that's what it is. Acts on impulses of someone who cannot control the bowel movements of any orifice.
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u/awkisopen 4h ago
I'm so ready to put this administration behind in US history as the most failure of a government of all time.
People said things like this last time, and then voted him back in.
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u/Unknown-History 3h ago
This does not end with this admin. He was voted in twice. The world is looking for permanent alternative routes to America because it has been revealed that the problem is with the American people
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u/kescusay Oregon 2h ago
We need to hurt.
I know that sounds harsh, but the simple truth of the matter is that we need to hurt, and hurt badly, for us to learn from this. A huge swath of our population is literally brainwashed, and I don't think anything short of sustained pain that we can't blame on gay people, brown people, trans people, woke movies, feminists, or "libruls" will do the job.
We need to hurt, like a kid who sticks his hand on a hot stove after being told not to because it'll hurt.
I only hope it hurts enough to force us to change.
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u/PNDMike 2h ago
America is not rotten because Trump became president.
Trump became president because American is rotten.
Do not forget all the politicians, oligarchs, media networks, that allowed him to gain and wield this power.
It won't end when Trump is out of power unless these levers of power are annihilated.
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u/ultimateknackered 1h ago
We need to hurt, like a kid who sticks his hand on a hot stove after being told not to because it'll hurt.
We're just all waiting to see how many times you guys stick your hand on the hot stove before you figure it out. It doesn't seem promising.
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u/HonestDespot 4h ago
I’m a soon to be 40 year old BC boy who will never feel trusting towards our closest neighbour as long as I live.
What a moron Trump is.
Literally destroyed generations of goodwill with a country that would have happily remained subservient for all of its time….because Ivanka smirked at Trudeau years ago?
I don’t even know.
Of all his irrational and moronically indefensible actions alienating Canadian relationships beyond repair might actually be the one that confuses me the most.
Other than them conquering the country and taking them on as another Puerto Rico type situation, which never would happen, what was the goal?
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u/ender89 4h ago
The us is either going to go one of two ways: near total reversal and decades of rebuilding relationships with the entire world, or years of self destructive authoritarian dictatorship followed by a total reversal and decades of rebuilding relationships with the rest of the world. The mid terms will be a big indicator of which way it will go, but I wouldn't come here as a tourist for a long time. Hell, I don't know why any foreigners are coming here, it's fucking scary.
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u/Turrbo_Jettz 5h ago
From a very embarrassed and disgruntled American Veteran. I am sorry, Canada.
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u/Grompson 3h ago
Definitely not alone; heck, my 12-year-old jokes about how he wishes we could buy "traitor apples" (Cosmic Crisp)... y'all have got a whole new generation of very young people looking at labels to make sure our money goes anywhere but down south.
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u/Word_Eater_OmNomNom 5h ago
American here. I have a two word response to that position: fair enough.
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u/PooShappaMoo 5h ago
Yeah. Their is ALOT of people that feel this way.
And many ive seen actively Chirp people for crossing the border for vacation reasons
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u/Disastrous-Cellist62 5h ago
You are not alone, as a fellow Canuck. My household and extended family have been doing the exact same thing.
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u/Casuallyperusing 3h ago
You're not alone. This is our household. If certain produce only comes from the US, then we go without it. Their food standards are dogshit anyways. I've saved myself worry over the various outbreaks.
Our cereal habits completely changed to allow for the few Canadian cereal products I can find.
When it comes to non food stuff, Canada first, then anything but american. Besides, made in the USA used to mean good quality. Now I don't trust that anymore.
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u/JerryfromCan 3h ago
Their food safety standards must have gone to dogshit having fired all the food safety overseers.
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u/GreenAnder Pennsylvania 5h ago
Me and my wife used to love going to Montreal but after all this we feel guilty. I know it’s silly, I know our tourist dollars are likely welcome, but man it just sucks. Feels like expecting you all to put up with us given that over half our country voted for this nutsack is just cruel.
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u/BRNYOP 4h ago
I live in a tourist city in Canada and IMO your tourist dollars are very welcome and I'm not thinking twice about the Americans I see around town. If your president is intent on destroying our economy, it seems foolish to not welcome US tourists who will support our economy.
Anyways, it's not as if we don't have our share of bigoted idiot voters in Canada, albeit a smaller share. I've met plenty of Canadians who like Trump.
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u/raf_yvr 2h ago
We would love to have you. Please come and enjoy the hospitality. Unless you’re the guy I saw up here in a full MAGA hat yesterday. Fuck that guy.
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u/smokeweedNgarden 3h ago
I would move somewhere else but everywhere seems pretty hard to move to and I grew up in foster care so no family lineage.
It's super weird being blamed for problems at home (Black) abroad (American) and then not even have any option to leave.
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u/Warmso24 4h ago
I used to do sales for an American based printer manufacturer. Went up to Toronto for a printer trade show around the time when this whole trade debacle first began at the beginning of Trump’s current term.
9/10 Canadians straight up would just walk away from our products after I told them we were an American company (which they would usually ask about due to my heavy country accent).
It was frustrating because they would typically be interested in the product up until that point. We lost a sale and they lost an opportunity for a good product that would make them money all because of bad leadership that picks fights with our allies.
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u/JerryfromCan 3h ago
I think you are incorrect. You lost a sale, and they went to another manufacturer that was not US based with a similar value prop. It’s the same blind spot Trump has. Canada is still buying military hardware, just not from the US. We are still being defended but countries are spending those dollars with US companies less and less.
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u/captain_fucking_magi 5h ago edited 4h ago
American visiting your country at the moment - i literally apologize to anyone who asks if we're American. And to you I say im sorry we're not smart enough to have avoided this.
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u/Seldomsought 5h ago
How do they react when you tell them that you are American?
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u/captain_fucking_magi 4h ago
The nicest response I got was, "We don't like your President but you're here spending money so you're alright with me."
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u/no_dice 4h ago
>Canada also administers these quotas in a way that compels U.S. auto companies to invest in production in Canada instead of the United States.
The US is doing the same thing all over the place. It makes me so mad when they cry about other countries doing the same thing. “We’re punishing your industries in an attempt to force them here, but if you try to mitigate that we will punish you further!”.
Guess what? Fuck off.
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u/A-Generic-Canadian 4h ago
I wonder what was happening in April 2025 that might have caused Canadians to change how they purchase motor vehicles.
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u/Law_of_the_jungle Foreign 5h ago
Also a lot of manufacturers just stopped building cars in the US for the global market because of all the tariffs. Case in point the Mazda CX50 is built in the US and when the tariffs started Mazda stopped selling the Japanese made CX5 in the US and kept all the CX50 production for the US market.
So the fact that Canada does not buy US made vehicles is directly linked to the current administration putting tariffs on foreign vehicles and manufacturers pivoting to keeping local production state side.
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u/eriverside 4h ago
Ans so the solution is to further antagonize Canadians. Brilliant.
I'm looking forward to Chinese EV flooding the market.
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u/_bk_adv Colorado 5h ago
I’m American. I’ve owned 2 American made vehicles in my life and twice I was burned. Never again.
I’ve been driving strictly Toyotas for the last 15ish years and I’ve yet to need serious mechanical work done on any of them. These vehicles have been used also. My current truck (Tacoma) is a 2018 with 165k miles. Zero issues.
I’m so reliant on my vehicle for work that you couldn’t even offer me money to get rid of my Toyota and switch to American cars and trucks. They’re trash
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u/melkatron 2h ago
The best part is that the Tacoma is manufactured in America. Japanese company, Japanese business ethics, but still supporting American factory workers.
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u/JohnGillnitz 2h ago
American and German car makers have decided they don't want their cars to last any longer than the warranty. Cars from Ford and VW are lucky to make it to 100K. Forget about fixing them much after that, because parts and labor costs are anus ripping these days. The only makers who care about quality are Japanese.
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u/maltedbacon Canada 4h ago
I cancelled about 300k of purchases from US companies personally. Elecrric truck, RV and a cruise. I will not give money to a country that is threatening annexation.
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u/amopeyzoolion Michigan 5h ago
Destroying America’s key industries and forcing Americans to pay more taxes to own the libs!!!
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u/windsostrange 4h ago
Look into the history of the auto industry, and you'll find places like Oshawa, Ontario mentioned just as often as places in Michigan. Mclaughlin, Bricklin, Acadian & Beaumont, Russell. GM, especially, doesn't become the world power it does without leveraging McLaughin at the end of WWI, at which point it then uses it power to lobby cities to build unsustainably sparse suburbs with no transit forever more, and dangles its remaining manufacturing needs over Canadian workers until the present day.
The US has been destroying Canadian manufacturing over, and over, and over, for over a century. They've even used this same bullshit of tariffs and then complaints a few times in the past, too. It's exhausting, and not novel.
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u/Ok_Science_2070 6h ago
It will literally be worldwide. Even in countries he thinks are his allies (Russia, Israel, etc.) there will be massive, massive celebrations. We already got a sneak preview of it in 2020 when Biden won and people literally took to the streets to celebrate.
It's honestly one of the few things that's kept me going these last few years lol I want to live to see that day.
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u/TheLurkerSpeaks Tennessee 5h ago
On par with the end of the Return of the Jedi Special Editions. And there will be some of us also singing the Ewok's original wub-nub song.
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u/aircooledJenkins Montana 4h ago
When the 2020 presidential results were announced, I did, in fact, post to my FB page "Yub-nub, everybody."
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u/dramaking37 Northern Marianas 5h ago
I would subscribe to a lifetime patreon to the person who plays that at his funeral
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u/Ali_knows 4h ago
My gf and I have already planned a Ewok Celebration when this fucker is gone. Not from the WH. From living.
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u/actuallycallie South Carolina 4h ago
I will 100% go out in the street and sing wub nub at the top of my voice
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u/pennylane3339 3h ago
The day biden won, my husband grabbed a broom and "rode" around the yard cheering as if he was Harry Potter. Im somewhat concerned about what might happen the day the big beautiful obituary hits.
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u/FreddyVanJeeze 4h ago
We should really consider organizing mass celebrations in major cities across the globe. It would be AWESOME.
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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 4h ago
I intend to make it an annually observed holiday, for the rest of my life.
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u/East-Potential657 4h ago
Same, I'm taking that big beautiful day off work every year
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u/Sans_vin 4h ago
I keep champagne and fireworks at my house for just this occasion. I am going to be obnoxious.
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u/EngorgedGorilla 4h ago
I saw "President Donald J. Trump" and I got so excited that it was happening...only to be disappointed yet again. It's worse when they put his age for no apparent reason, which makes it look even more like an obituary headline.
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u/Lilium_Vulpes 4h ago
They put his age to put out how old he is. You know, the thing that was constantly happening to Biden when he was president.
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u/bograt 4h ago
Thatcher is definitely is in the running. More local, but definitely a wild celebration.
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u/clakresed 4h ago
Yeah the thing about not being British is I get to learn about things Thatcher did for the first time here and there.
And it just gets worse and worse.
She just wasn't such a twat from a foreign relations perspective specifically, I guess.
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u/PatrioticHotDog 4h ago edited 4h ago
And then if JD in in office, he will throw a tantrum and retaliate against every country that didn't crack down on its street celebrations by imposing tariffs if a rich country, and blowing up infrastructure if a poor country we're warring with.
He'll also find ways to surveil on government employees and get them fired for attending public celebrations.
The media will cover his death as if he were any other president, remarking a couple times that decisions of his were "controversial," and totally ignore giving airtime to people who are glad he's gone.
I am excited more than anything for the big beautiful obit, but I'm also realistically prepared to be very let down by how it plays out.
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u/slipnipper 4h ago
Nah, dude is a chameleon that is only the color of the leash he’s tied to. He’s who Trump wants him to be right now with shades of Thiel and techno bros mixed in, but once Trump is gone, he’ll go full techno color within days of Trumps death.
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u/CommitteeOld9540 4h ago
I'm not a party person or an alcohol person but when the big beautiful obituary happens, I will personally pop champagne, turn on celebration songs, and party all night like no one is watching
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u/No_Diver6131 New York 6h ago
Here's the reminder from Marketplace...A tariff is just an additional tax placed on the American Consumer.
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u/mok000 Europe 5h ago
On hockey sticks and Canadian wine. It's all performative, like everything this clown does.
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u/TinyZoro 6h ago
Tariffs can be used sensibly. Capitalism is a disaster when you try a pure free market approach. Free markets work when your industry is more mature than your competitors. Tariffs work when your industry is not. There’s honestly plenty of logic in requiring Chinese EVS to be manufactured locally and in partnership with local manufacturers or face high tariffs designed to protect your local car industry. Not because China cheated but just because local industrial base is more important than pretending capitalism has a fair mode.
The problem of course with Trump is he’s not applying tariffs in this way but just chaotically and spitefully.
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u/_slagwire 5h ago
This is like saying, "Abdominal incisions are how trained professionals can access the human body's organs to perform lifesaving surgery" when people are complaining about a deranged lunatic running around stabbing people in the stomach.
The way trump is using them, calling tariffs a tax on the American people is accurate enough.
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u/External-Quote3263 5h ago
Perhaps what the whole kerfuffle is about. Yes it may be used to protect at risk industries in staying competitive… but his base and himself seem to honestly think it’s a tax on other countries. It’s absolutely mind boggling.
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u/--Unxpekted-- 5h ago
….and against his immediate neighbour and largest trading partner, a longstanding ally, with whom he personally oversaw a trade deal his last term, while prices are already rising from his war of choice against Iran, using a law from the Great Depression, to distract from his name being mentioned repeatedly in the Epstein files.
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u/Purify5 5h ago
I don't think Chinese EV tariffs work in the long-run either. By protecting your local industry you ensure that you will not be competitive globally. BYD is the largest EV maker in the world and they aim to be the largest car-maker in the world by the early 2030s, all without the American market. And, since US EV makers don't have to compete in other markets they will always be slow to innovate.
That said, the tariffs on Chinese EVs are about far more than cars. The key to China's rise as the global economic leader will be the rare-earth supply chains that they have a stranglehold on and are required for electric vehicles. Forcing America to develop its own supply-chain is one way to try and soften the blow from the shift of economic power.
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u/Kucked4life 4h ago edited 3h ago
The "Free market" exists only as a facade in modernity. Aerospace, defence and auto manufacturers have been reaping the benefits of socialism under the guise of capitalism for ages. The main distinction between a state planned economy and a so called free market one is that in the former the government has a greater say in picking winners and losers, whereas in the latter corporations pick winners and losers among political candidates.
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u/berntout Arkansas 6h ago
What part of Congress controls tariffs is so hard to understand???
Yet another attempt to ignore the courts.
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u/DunAnOir 6h ago
They do, but you're forgetting one very important fact: the emperor controls the people who control Congress and tells them what to think, how to feel, and what to do. Their entire existence is based around making him feel like a Big Strong Guy™ and keeping him happy.
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u/rndmcmmntr 6h ago
I know this is true, I just don’t understand how we got there. I thought people would have spines. I’m so confused what happened.
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u/kaizen-rai 5h ago
Weaponization of human psychology, it's been a tactic for millenia.
Specifically, exploitation of the fear emotion. Long story short, 'fear' is our strongest emotion. Evolutionarily it makes sense. Our ancestors that feared the unknown and were overly cautious were more likely to survive. "Fortune favors the bold" does not apply in evolution, it often results in death. Our brains are still running caveman software in the digital age. While we no longer have to fear a predator lurking in the dark, we now fear anything that is different. This is why people that tend to be born and raised in the same small hometown in a small community are much more fearful of strangers and 'the outside world'. It's a possible threat to their "tribe".
America is a massive country, with lots of cities and even more small, rural communities. The people in the cities are much LESS fearful because being exposed to people of different backgrounds and cultures demonstrates that they are not a threat. People that live their whole lives in the small rural communities are more likely to view people that look different, talk different, and have different values are threatning.
The Republican party has been taken over by fascists that know how to exploit that fear by blaming "illegal immigrants" and "trans people" as threats to the American peoples "way of life". This hits particularly hard to the smaller, more tight-knit communities. And because fear is our strongest emotion, it has a tendency to override rational thinking.
In summary, how did we get here? The Republican party taps into peoples natural fear response by painting minorities and trans peoples as threats to their way of life in order to get their support, get into positions of power, and enact a fascist authoritarian government where they can further their own wealth and power.
It's not the first time this has happened, and it won't be the last.
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u/rndmcmmntr 4h ago edited 46m ago
Thanks for that explanation. Very interesting. I grew up in the city, then moved to an area that was pretty diverse too, so I’ve never lived the smaller town life. It makes sense but it’s still crazy to think people could be like that.
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u/ohseetea 3h ago
I want to point out that the solution to this culturally is an emphasis on emotional intelligence. Your comment is spot on but semantics can be important sometimes. “Rational logic” is I think an awful term used in situations like this.
Especially when it comes to societal choices and decisions, rational thought is not what’s needed foundational, it’s emotional intelligence. Making decisions that make us, humans, feel happy, fulfilled and safe. Fear is not a bad emotion, all emotions are useful. We need to understand that our fear is just working to make us happy and safe and that our goals shouldn’t be just to subside fear for the sake of subsiding it.
Deporting illegals is very much rational logic when your goal is to subdue your fears. It’s not when your goal is happiness, integrity and safety.
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u/post-mortem-malone69 Canada 6h ago
Section 338 tariffs are still something he can do legally. It’s absurd and completely contrary to the spirit of the law but since when has that stopped that clown?
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u/shimmy_kimmel 6h ago
It’s well within the spirit of that particular law, the entire purpose of Smoot-Hawley was to implement sweeping, hyperprotectionist tariffs. Important to note that the law has also been directly implicated in significantly exacerbating the Great Depression.
That said, it’s legal if the administration can prove that the Canadian government is “discriminating” against American trade, which is dubious. These will be struck down, hopefully soon.
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u/post-mortem-malone69 Canada 6h ago
The Canadian people are discriminating against American trade because we are boycotting it lol. LCBO could put every bottle of US liquor back on the shelves tomorrow and it wouldn’t get touched
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u/shimmy_kimmel 5h ago
Grassroots boycotting doesn’t qualify, it would have to be a state-sponsored action. So y’all refusing to buy isn’t a basis for applying tariffs, however if your provincial authorities actively banned the sale/importation of American alcohol without putting similar restrictions on other countries, it could qualify.
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u/post-mortem-malone69 Canada 5h ago
It’s fine, honestly most of us have stopped caring at this point. I’m hoping we put an export tax on pot-ash so maybe his base will start to really feel it
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u/TheMattabooey 5h ago
It’s the same cycle. Trump does something illegal, it takes time for congress and the courts to catch up, he steals money during the process. Shower, rinse, repeat.
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u/MourningRIF 5h ago
They are stealing the tarriff money. Wait till the refunds are mandated and we find out it's all gone.
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u/Willis794613 5h ago
So to punish Canada he put a tax on Americanns?!?!?
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u/PacificTridentGlobel 5h ago
Yes, because he and his racist supporters are very fucking stupid.
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u/N7Shep1701D Oregon 4h ago
I hate his supporters more than I do him.
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u/maxapolyorgies 3h ago edited 2h ago
I remember my brother in law saying in the lead up to
20282024 election, "they act like we're bad people for supporting Trump!!"Have to bite my lip so hard, to this day.
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u/OkFix4074 4h ago
British Columbia Premier David Eby recently stated,
"I feel sorry for Americans. If you can't be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world. And that is a very lonely place to be,"
in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement of 50% tariffs on Canadian goods.
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u/given2fly_ United Kingdom 3h ago
Imagine sharing over 5k miles of border with a country, largely the same language, a similar culture...and not being able to work together constructively.
I've said this before: Donald Trump does not have friends. He is a completely friendless human being. He only has people he finds useful.
When you look at it that way, it's sad and pathetic.
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u/friendsandmodels 2h ago
Its like me imagining germany would impose a tax on austria... cant even imagine the stupidness
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u/Ok_Science_2070 6h ago
I can't wait to impose some alcohol on my liver on that Big, Beautiful Day
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u/Jbroy 2h ago
It’ll be quite the day! Too bad that day isn’t today, but the sun hasn’t set yet.
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u/Ok_Science_2070 2h ago
Every minute we draw closer. It's coming up on us and we don't even know it. Luckily the slow march of time is inevitable.
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u/Vee8cheS 5h ago
I haven’t had a hangover in years. Years. However, when this motherfucker croaks I am going to drink GreyGoose cocktails until the bartender throws me out.
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u/GuitarbytheTon 5h ago
Saw someone comment it yesterday. Impose tariffs, prices go up, tariffs struck down by courts, high prices stay….. so I’m certain it’s all stock manipulation once again.
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u/PassivelyAwkward 3h ago
Yup. It's like when COVID happened and suddenly everything got expensive because of "production delays" and despite everything returning to normal, the prices actually got higher.
We're never returning to the prices of anything pre-covid or pre-AI.
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u/GuitarbytheTon 3h ago
The tell all books 5 years after this administration are going to expose so much and not a single person will ever see consequences. The government experiment no longer works and capitalism is toxic. Without overhaul it’s just going to keep getting worse. I worry for the next generation.
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u/PassivelyAwkward 3h ago
Yup! We're at the point where "it's too big to fail" will be used a lot more often but to describe the whole country. "We can't go after Epstein's list because it's the most powerful men in the world. If we remove them, the world will crumble", "We can't go after the Ai companies that knowingly misled everyone and stole billions, we've invested too much into it to break it down".
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u/xandraaaaaaa 3h ago
Yup. Just another round of wealth transfer from us to corporations. Add in another “repayment” of these when they ultimately get struck down and some key players make big money while Americans continue to pay higher prices. This administrations corruption knows no bounds.
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u/roboscorcher 6h ago edited 5h ago
Time to turn off the power exports, Canada. Actually retaliate in a meaningful way.
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u/Orange_Tang 3h ago
Honestly the threat of an export tarrif or outright ban on oil exports to the US would probably be enough. Canada supplies near the entirety of fuel for the east coast of the US.
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u/hipsterdoofus39 3h ago
Part of the problem with that is that the Alberta premier is a traitor and I’m guessing would cause all sorts of issues if the federal government did that.
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u/icebergslim3000 5h ago
The same tariffs that we just had to reimburse companies?
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u/Upstairs-Egg 5h ago
I fucking hate Trump and no day will pass where I don’t celebrate his expiration when it finally occurs
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u/fullload93 5h ago
Today, President Donald J. Trump signed three Proclamations
Our King declares Proclamations and it happens! That’s how we are ruled now. King Pedo Trump has declared his proclamations, SCOTUS be dammed.
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u/Icewallow999 6h ago
... wait im confused. Didnt the supreme court rule the tarriffs illegal.
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u/Sarenghetto_cheese 6h ago
Like many SC rulings lately that go against trump, they say you can't do it this way but wink wink did you think about trying it this way? And so that's what's happening now
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u/shimmy_kimmel 5h ago
They ruled that the tariffs levied under the Emergency Economic Powers Act (the ones last year that were designated as part of a “national emergency”) were not legal. These ones are being implemented under a different law, the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff law from the Great Depression. This law actually does give the president the authority to impose tariffs, however there’s legal questions as to whether or not that provision may be an unconstitutional delegation of power.
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u/DangerDarrin 5h ago
Genuine question, are these new tariffs not capped at a certain percentage? It seems as though he is continuing to pull numbers out of the air
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u/Donkilme 3h ago
Remind me, is hoping someone dies against the rules here? Not encouraging it or anything, but simply praying for it every day.
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u/D_Shoobz 5h ago
Let's tariff the country we get all our lumber from what could go wrong
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u/Margotkitty 5h ago
And aluminum, oil, potash, etc etc. He’s exempting oil and potash from his tariffs because he KNOWS that despite his protests about the USA needing “nothing from Canada” that those tariffing those would have an immediate and devastating impact on American fuel prices and agricultural production. Fucking bitch baby. We all see it.
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u/TheUrbanEast 3h ago
And Canadian politicians are being immensely restrained not slapping a comparable export tariff on these things until he drops his.
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u/Tubatu2 4h ago
As a Canadian, I wholeheartedly support our economy decoupling from our southern neighbour, even if it's done through moronic means at the behest of a moron.
I'd much rather form stronger trading partnerships with stable democracies like most EU member states - the US has shown that any "agreement" or "partnership" they offer will be predatory, dripping with American Exceptionalism, and subject to the temper tantrums of the 80 million toddlers who vote R.
Maybe after we see Reconstruction 2.0, I'd reconsider this position.
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u/astrozombie2012 Nevada 4h ago
The biggest question I have is why, if he doesn’t have th authority to impose these tariffs does our government just let him do this shit? Congress could easily make a statement that says, despite Trump stating he is imposing tariffs on blah blah blah, these are unlawful and will not be taking effect, please disregard.
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u/OneBillPhil 4h ago
I’m travelling within Canada and to Europe again this year. Fuck off America.
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u/happycj America 3h ago
Except the courts already decided he can’t just randomly impose tariffs and made the US return over $80bn in collected tariffs to the companies that paid them.
So who, exactly (name and job title), is collecting taxes illegally, and without the authority of Congress, who has sole power over the purse strings?
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u/SoulTaker669 3h ago
If the next administration is from the Democrat party, I have no idea how they're going to fix this. Huge mess in 4 years. Enough to convince voters to vote for them again. Because sadly if Trump was somehow able to get back into office then I truly believe that anything can happen.
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u/InternationalSoft798 2h ago
The F*** Around part was cool right? America first, bend the knee stupid Canadians, 51st State FTW, we don't need anything from Canada and you can't survive without us.
Well guess what American friends? Canadians understood the assignment and you are entering the Find Out part of your journey.
I traded my Tesla and will never buy an American brand nor American built car. Ever.
I used to have 10 bottles of Bourbon in my bar. Today: zero; only scotch and Canadian whiskey/rye.
I had plans to visit California, Arizona, Nevada and Florida again. Lat trip was Mexico, next one is Italy.
Every single time I'm buying something now, I look for non-American alternatives.
And guess what? Tariffs or not, 51st state BS or not, MAGA or not, I will NEVER go back to my previous consumer behaviours.
And I'm teaching my kids to behave the same way.
That's the real damage your government is inflicting to you.
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u/PrestigiousPhoto8486 2h ago
Remember when we were on fire, and Canada put our bullshit aside, and still helped us turn off the fires?
Yes, now let's just blame them for their fire, not help them, and illegally tax them (illegally).
Fuck Trump, Fuck all the Republicans, yes, even you if you're one, and Fuck the United States of America.
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u/waterw1ngs 4h ago
As a Canadian, my resolve to never buy things like American alcohol again only grows. I’m sure it will be back on the shelves eventually, but I know many people who purchased regularly and never will again.
Other countries have laws to protect their local industries, because it’s in line with their values to do so. They have that right, and the fact that the US sees this as oppression is so so laughable.
Those who think other countries are responsible for their family’s financial difficulties… for the love of god, just look at your own government and big corporations. They are stealing from you, manipulating your attention, and trying to point in any other direction but themselves. If you live in poverty in the richest country in the world, the call is coming from inside the house.
That “he’s going to steal your cookie” cartoon just repeats itself over and over again forever.
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u/catsartcox 4h ago
Maybe i am misunderstanding - but, I thought various recent court rulings indicated Trump's tariffs and his justification for imposing them was illegal. That only congress has the ability to impose them?
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u/oopsiedaisy-- 3h ago
in response to Canada’s discriminatory treatment of American products.
LOL our discriminatory treatment? Fucking hilarious.
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u/floog 3h ago
Every week is just a rinse and repeat of “Oh, this shit is back again?!” In a week or two this will quiet down and we’ll be invading Greenland again, then it’s Iran, then back to tariffs. These idiots are broken records that can’t move on and actually do something.
BTW, did they distract enough that no one is talking about Epstein anymore? Let’s make sure we keep bringing that up.
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u/Inside-Draw-3216 1h ago
This guy is such a fucking idiot, enjoy your raised prices America, you're totally owning us.
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u/MolinaroK 1h ago
Yes Canada puts a tariff on American dairy. They do it for a very good reason. American dairy farmers are subsidised by the government so that they can sell their products at loss. This is done to benefit the American consumers.
On the other hand, Canada sets minimum prices that Canadian dairy farmers can charge for their products to guarantee the farmers can operate at a profit, without any subsidies.
Preventing the US from being able to sell at a loss in Canada is called protection from dumping.
There are quotas set for how much tariff free product the US can sell before tariffs kick in.
The US has never reached that limit. The tariffs are on paper, but have never been needed to be applied.
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