Canada expected to divert aluminium to Europe after US tariffs

[albert180@discuss.tchncs.de]

Yeah because Mexico has People with the wrong skin colour for him

[pm_your_nudes_please@lemmy.world]

Yeah, the EU has been eyeing Russian aluminum import sanctions for a while now. The timing couldn’t be better, cuz it’ll give them that last little push to finally do it.

[jagged_circle@feddit.nl]

I wish countries would actually issue sanctions against the US, but I guess this is second best

[genosseflosse@feddit.org]

Depends, what about the options? Can i have them in red with spolier and chrome wheels?

[delphia@lemmy.world]

Yeah but we havent made the shit list yet. I'm literally counting the days.

[trippasnippa@aussie.zone]

Australia mined over 1000x more of it than the US did last year

Don't give them ideas

[shirro@aussie.zone]

Australia doesn't much care about trade with the US.

We care about trade with China and when China got petty and Trumpish we handled it fine by diversifying markets until they got over their hissy fit and returned to their senses.

Often the US is a competitor in our export markets and if they score some.own goals in trade wars our exporters will take the advantage just like they do to us whenever they can.

The real problem is what this idiocy does to the global economy as that impacts everyone.

[sparky@lemmy.federate.cc]

We already have a bunch of different import tariffs on stuff - it’s not new. Most goods from outside the EU/EEA/CH have at least a small percentage charged on them.

But, they’re selective and used to protect domestic industries- so for example, cheese from outside Europe has tariffs on it to protect the French and Spanish cheese industries. This is fine, because we can buy those European made cheeses for cheap.

This is different because we don’t apply enormous tariffs to stuff that mostly comes from abroad. That would be stupid.

[skozzii@lemmy.ca]

I went out of my way to actively avoid American products the last few days, and I will continue to do so for the next 4 years.

[eigenspace@feddit.org]

Unfortunately, this will not be over in 4 years. The American people have proven that they are unreliable, cruel, and stupid.

Even if someone sane takes office in 4 years it will maybe just give us a 4 year pause until the next lunatic comes in. There can be no long term plans or cooperation with the USA.

[gsus4@mander.xyz]

That's a good point, the US has had tariff-happy presidents before...but it was a backwater, I guess a majority of americans wants to go back to being a backwater.

[bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Yes!

Can’t wait to sink my teeth into sweet sweet freedom aluminum