Why 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?
> 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.
Us/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).
This. 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.
Mostly 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.
Do 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.
I 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...
Carney 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.
potash 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.
> Time 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?
If 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?
The 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/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.
Motorcycles, 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.
BRP 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.
“ 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.”
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[ 0.26 ms ] story [ 7.2 ms ] thread> 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-pr...
Because Donald Trump is mentally ill, and it’s time we start talking about it as a Nation.
More complete article here: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/canada...
I’m still confused about where this Canadian tequila and mescal is being made
(Yes, I know.)
This will make Trump stop this nonsense since we are right before the mid-terms.
Why? The US is the biggest oil producer in the world right now (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_extra...) and one of the largest oil exporters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_expor...). Is there something special about Canadian oil that means cannot substitute it with domestic oil?
I think the authors of this ban are a little confused about what dairy is.
Is this a parody of some sort?
These tariffs are counter to the Canadian tariffs on Harley and Indian if I had to guess.
Canada's counter-tariffs take effect on various US goods
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605611
“ 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-...
Canadians are disgusted by the way we’re being treated by the US.