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US to ban Canadian dairy, alcohol, motor vehicle imports on September 29
- chews 2mo agoThis is what made a generation of Kennedy's...
- fakedang 2mo agoSakoku law, Murrica style.
- Eextra953 2mo agoWhy are we doing this again? The current administration established the existing trade deal back during the first term and now they are unhappy with it?
- s1artibartfast 2mo agoDont shoot the messenger... > While President Trump continues to lock in fair and reciprocal trade deals with nearly twenty trading partners across the globe, Canada continues to retaliate against the United States for its efforts to correct trade imbalances and protect American workers, farmers, and businesses. > Over the past year and a half, only two countries have chosen to retaliate against President Trump’s tariffs rather than negotiate a deal with the United States: The People’s Republic of China and Canada. https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-responds-to-canadas-retaliation/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-pr...
- protocolture 2mo agoBoth countries that deserve our praise. If only all countries could come together to embargo the USA.
- mirekrusin 2mo ago[dead]
- jleyank 2mo agoUs/Canada had a nice free trade deal signed by the current prez in his first term. Pity said prez is ignoring it. Hasn’t left the agreement, just ignoring it. And nobody bothers to point that out and how he’s breaking us law to do so (ratified treaty).
- nozzlegear 2mo agoIn Bob Woodward's book on the first Trump presidency, Trump shows a fixation with trade deficits and trade imbalances. His cabinet would try to explain that the US having a trade imbalance with South Korea (one of the topics in the book) was expected, and he had to consider the defense and intelligence agreements as part of that. Trump would not have it – he was described as obsessively focused on the trade imbalance alone, believing it made the US look weak. White House staff took to sneaking into the Oval Office to remove draft letters and agreements from his desk before he could sign them, so he couldn't ruin trade deals like KORUS or NAFTA over his misgivings. This time around he has obviously learned he should only have yes men in the cabinet.
- amatecha 2mo agoI'm not sure that site is the best one to link to give a balanced explanation of the situation. The Wikipedia page on the topic seems pretty thorough and reasonable as a starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_the_second_Trump_administration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_the_second_Trump_ad...
- mechatrocity 2mo agoYou'll need to cite a more reputable source
- s1artibartfast 2mo agotaps sign
- hackingonempty 2mo agoTrump wants all of the leaders of the world to kiss his ass and make a deal. Tariffs are about the only cudgel he has short of using the military.
- outside1234 2mo agoBut make a deal on what? He literally signed the current deal we have with Canada? That makes me think that what he really wants is either a bribe
- Grombobulous 2mo agoDonald has made more money on the presidency than every president before him combined, then add an order of magnitude of wealth on top of that.
- burnt-resistor 2mo agoIt's the Putinification of the Presidency playbook. Too big to jail.
- zeagle 2mo agoHe doesn't want a deal for the US, he wants to personally profit from it.
- euroderf 2mo agoThis. It's why "unitary executive" is so attractive - he can extend his tendrils into every nook & cranny of policy (foreign and other) to personally monetize it.
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- deepfriedchokes 2mo ago> Why are we doing this again? Because Donald Trump is mentally ill, and it’s time we start talking about it as a Nation.
- dlcarrier 2mo agoMostly because Canada is allowing Chinese vehicle imports, which US auto industry is not happy about. There's also some pressure from US video streaming producers and distributors, after Canada expanded regulations for television and movie production into streaming video platforms.
- NewJazz 2mo agoThe chinese cars was a consequence of the tariff (and other) threats, not a cause.
- DarkByte 2mo agoPure distraction from the current administration's other gigantic ongoing failures in both national and foreign policies.
- outside1234 2mo agoDoubling down on more failures to distract from the other failures
- DaiPlusPlus 2mo agoThis needs a full-length parody of “I once knew a lady who swallowed a fly…”.
- wewewedxfgdf 2mo agoRemember there's still a VERY large section of the US population fully supports this administration - tens of millions of people.
- bdangubic 2mo agotens of millions is not large
- nozzlegear 2mo agoInteresting to note that his popularity is at the lowest it's ever been though, and he appears to be losing support even among his base. What he's doing is not loved by anyone. https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-sil...
- Scoundreller 2mo agoSo this means those products will drop in price in Canada, right? More complete article here: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/canadas-retaliatory-tariffs-take-effect-us-trade-talks-stall-2026-09-08/ https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/canada... I’m still confused about where this Canadian tequila and mescal is being made
- zzgo 2mo agoEn Winnipég y Edmontón, señor.
- bawolff 2mo agoDo we even export any dairy to the US? I'd assume most of the auto stuff is parts not complete product, so banning that will probably just make everything more expensive for everyone.
- cwillu 2mo ago“Dairy” is a technical term for a category of goods that is broader than milk and milk-related products. (Yes, I know.)
- jmclnx 2mo agoAll Canada has to do is ban export potash to the US, that will end this crap almost instantly.
- cute_boi 2mo agoI think Canada could easily just import everything from China just to piss Trump, and take hardliner approach, it would bring trump and government to its place. But Canadian leaders are not so brave...
- klrefg 2mo agoCarney is one of them few (if there are any) leaders of Western countries who is actually genuinely popular and has a very high approval so he does have a lot of leeway to do what he thinks is best.
- euroderf 2mo agoSounds interesting! Elucidate?
- jmclnx 2mo agopotash is needed for farming, in the US something like 90% comes from Canada and Canada is the largest exporter of it for the world. Stopping its export will disrupt US agriculture for quite a while and cause food prices to rise a lot. This will make Trump stop this nonsense since we are right before the mid-terms.
- enoint 2mo agoSaskatchewan would demand a substitute buyer, I think. Finding cooperative middle countries is a difficult strategy.
- bryanlarsen 2mo agoTime to shut down the oil exports. That'll instantly get rid of the trade deficit that Trump keeps complaining about. That's what he wants, isn't it?
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- jleyank 2mo agoIf US-ians stop cutting checks to Alberta oil companies, the trade deficit goes away. Get cracking on the cracking and get those drillers into Venezuela. I guess one can't have trade deficits with colonies, er, states?
- thayne 2mo ago> The dairy ban covers whey protein, invert molasses, cane molasses and non-alcoholic beer, per notices on the White House's website. I think the authors of this ban are a little confused about what dairy is.
- dlcarrier 2mo agoThe terms customs uses are completely unrelated to normal human words for things. They have a 21-page document (https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2020-Feb/icp013_3.pdf https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/202...) describing the difference between a bolt and a screw. It starts off by citing the regulation differentiating them by intended use, then spends the rest of the document differentiating them solely by looks.
- hebelehubele 2mo ago"What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: Distinguishing Bolts from Screws" Is this a parody of some sort?
- bryanlarsen 2mo agoMotorcycles, not motor vehicles. Lots of cars and trucks go both ways across the border. Motorcycles is a lot smaller trade, mostly done by Bombardier: those three wheeles bikes popular with seniors. Trump hates Bombardier, they had the temerity to compete with Boeing.
- dghlsakjg 2mo agoBRP is no longer associated with Bombardier. Although I don’t think for a second that the Trump administration isn’t incapable of that error I suspect these are actually strategically targeted. These tariffs are counter to the Canadian tariffs on Harley and Indian if I had to guess.
- ChrisArchitect 2mo agoRelated: Canada's counter-tariffs take effect on various US goods https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605611 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605611
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- MiroslavPokorny 2mo agoDid they ban Maple syrup ?
- hellisothers 2mo agoI got a 2yr supply just in case…
- -1 2mo agoI’ll just leave this here… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_response_to_Hurricane... “ One of the first things Canada did was to deploy Vancouver Urban Search and Rescue to Louisiana... the team started operations on September 3; they saved 30 people that day. They were the first outside responders to arrive in St. Bernard Parish, beating American response teams.[4] By the time they returned to Vancouver on September 6, they had reportedly saved over 110 people.” https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/remembering-hurricane-katrina-10-years-later-1.3207986 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/remembering-... Canadians are disgusted by the way we’re being treated by the US.