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Canada makes retaliatory tariffs official: 'We will not back down'
Source: CNBC
Canadas foreign minister announced Friday that Ottowa plans to impose about $12.6 billion worth of retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods on July 1.
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Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/29/canada-makes-retaliatory-tariffs-official-we-will-not-back-down.html
Canadian tariffs will take place on July 1st, this Sunday
CNBC saying Canada will be placing tariffs of 25% and 10% on two separate tariff lists.
They do so until Trump lifts his steel & aluminum trade measures against Canada.
Minister of foreign affairs Chrystia Freeland saying, "We do this in sorrow not in anger".
Per CNBC statement
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Wwcd
Jun 2018
OP
He started a six-front trade war. He thought everyone would simply fold up. But they go around him.
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2018
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Maraya1969
(23,062 posts)1. What did the asshole think other countries would do?
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)2. Yup. He wanted to belong to the dictator's club.
At the expense of us all.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,984 posts)3. He started a six-front trade war. He thought everyone would simply fold up. But they go around him.
MAGA: Making America Go Alone.
Rest of world trade big enough it will just trade around USA. And not invest.
Won't happen overnight, but it is already beginning, as new free trade agreements are being signed and negotiated.
Meantime, Chinese have stopped buying soybeans from MidWest, a $13,000,000,000 (13 billion) a year loss. They are now buying from Brazil and Canada.
Investors won't bring money to the USA because of the instability.
Tourism is down 4 to 7 %. Normally a growth industry.
Instead of developing solar power technology to export goods to the rest of the world, the US will before long be importing, if it can find anyone willing to sell.
Cosmocat
(15,078 posts)4. I keep telling wingers this
How is going to turn out when a country is alone, fighting trade wars with the rest of the world.
It does not even register ...
You can be the biggest bad ass around but if you go into a bar and throw beer in the faces of a dozen dudes, your getting our ass kicked.