**The United States and Canada are officially at (trade) war. **The most severe consequences are yet to come.
Canada is fed up with being our friendly northern neighbor. President Donald Trump managed to anger the
second most polite countryin the worldso muchthat Prime Minister Mark Carney (metaphorically) strapped on his hockey gloves, chugged a shot of maple syrup, and announced that tariffs targeting $20 billion in U.S. imports will go into effect starting today.
“I don’t believe in escalating the conflict, that’s not constructive. But our tariffs are necessary to protect our workers, protect our companies, and our communities,” Carney said
▶in a videoaddressed to Canadians today. “We can’t let American goods into Canada tariff-free while they charge our companies to export to them.”
The trade war is the culmination of a year and a half of tensions between the two allies, which have been growing ever since Trump announced tariffs on Canadian goods on his first day back in office. After that, the vibes have only gotten worse — thanks to Trump’s childlike fantasy of making Canada the 51st state and changing the name of Lake Ontario.
After the Canadian tariffs went into effect, Trump
threatened to banthe sale of Canadian Bombardier jets unless they’re built in the United States. “BUY AMERICAN. FLY ON AMERICAN AIRLINERS. ENJOY AMERICAN LIQUOR AND BEVERAGES. SAIL ON LAKE AMERICA. AMERICA FIRST!” Trump rantedon social media. (This is not the point, but has an American president ever before urged the general public to drink liquor?)
Here’s the thing: Some Bombardier parts
arebuilt in the United States. In fact, Bombardier employs more than one thousand people in Wichita, Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS)𝕏tweeted. So, Moran reached out to Trump’s team today “to make certain the President is aware of the significant contributions of Bombardier to Kansas and the importance of its presence in Wichita,” the senator wrote.
**Most Americans won’t see prices skyrocket immediately. **But that could change with time.
The Canadian tariffs
primarily targetdairy, agricultural equipment, paper, electronics, and several other industries.
“This tit-for-tat retaliation is bad for Canadian businesses and consumers, and bad for American businesses and consumers,” Brad Wood, senior director for trade and innovation at the National Foreign Trade Council,
told the“Every escalation is one more layer of barriers that ultimately Canada and the United States need to resolve.”New York Times.
Countries around the world are tired of Trump’s seemingly random trade wars, which experts say are likely to support inflation, hurt the global economy, and spur the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates (which Trump doesn’t want, because doing that can hurt the stock market). Companies may start to feel like doing business with the U.S. is just more trouble than it’s worth.
“The concern is that this continual uncertainty about trade policy, this continual tariff onslaught, it basically causes companies to say, ‘You know what, I’m just not going to deal as much with the United States,’” Jason Miller, Michigan State University professor,
told MS NOW.
**As Canada’s tariffs went into effect, **Trump posted an image of Canada, Mexico, and Greenland as part of the United States.
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