1st Feb 25% tariff on Mexico + Canada, 10% on China

[noseall]

Tesla I think he means. Virtually made in China

I get that. I'm not at all au fait with leccy cars. I'm sure Bubba will be thrilled with the news.

 

[MNW67]

I can't see it working at all, the phone lines between Canada US and Mexico will be at melting point.

But what is he really after?

 

[MNW67]

It was a fortnight tomorrow that Trump said in his inauguration speech that foreign countries would pay the tariffs and that they would be collected by a new External Revenue Service. He is now warning Americans to be ready for pain.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

It was a fortnight tomorrow that Trump said in his inauguration speech that foreign countries would pay the tariffs and that they would be collected by a new External Revenue Service. He is now warning Americans to be ready for pain.

Reality might dawn on some soon

 

[transam]

Well the Mexicans need to sort them selves out
The place run by drug cartels / criminals with there own private armies

Rest are a bunch fruit cakes wandering around with over sized hats playing guitars

My mate went to some border town out there years ago went to some type of zoo

The Zebra was a donkey painted with black and white stripes

 

[noseall]

Rest are a bunch fruit cakes wandering around with over sized hats playing guitars

...and trumpets.

 

[transam]

...and trumpets.

Exactly

 

[noseall]

Well the Mexicans need to sort them selves out
The place run by drug cartels / criminals with there own private armies

And yet tourists flock there (Cancun) and The PGA hold golf events there. The same golfing fraternity that still refuses to endorse any Trump courses.

 

[Brigadier]

Well the Mexicans need to sort them selves out
The place run by drug cartels / criminals with there own private armies

Whereas, 'Murca is run by mobs like the NRA

 

[Notch7]

They'll be paying that much extra with the tariffs.

Could get messy.

Trumps tariff policies will increase prices for American consumers either way.

Not a great look for somebody who campaigned on a ticket of lowering costs

 

[Justin Passing]

We could be facing a stockmarket collapse. Some numbers here: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/stock-market-dealing.612898/page-62#post-5920256

 

[transam]

Whereas, 'Murca is run by mobs like the NRA

Hardly comparable

 

[Brigadier]

Hardly comparable

If you believe that, try taking guns from 'murcans, and report how you get on


As you might say,

Yes, exactly

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Canada fires back ...

Trump renews calls for Canada to become 51st state as Trudeau retaliates: Live

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would ‘not back down in standing up for Canadians’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[MNW67]

A great comment by a Canadian:

I don't think that Americans appreciate the impact that these tariffs will have on US-Canada relations in the long term as well as trade in the long term. Even if they don't last long the damage has been done. Trust has been lost. People are angry. Most recently over 150 Canadians lost their lives in Afghanistan fighting alongside Americans in a war that was not ours. They did it because American is our friend and oldest ally and they asked us to have their backs. To be hit with these tariffs on the flimsiest pretext is a gut punch. It will cause hundreds of thousands of job losses if not millions and drive our economy into recession. As an individual I can't do much. I can stop buying American made products which I have done. Everyone I know is doing the same. Last night I watched a hockey game between the Ottawa Senators and the Minnesota Wild. The American National Anthem was booed. I am 69 years old and I have never, ever seen that happen in Canada. America First is quickly becoming American alone!