Trump pauses tariffs on Canada for at least 30 days, Trudeau says

[rxbudian@lemmy.ca]

Canada should keep imposing the Tariffs until March.
Trump didn't expect Canada to hit back, so he is unprepared for the fallout. If Canada also pauses until March, Trump will use the time to prepare and he'll reimpose the Tariffs in march

[showroom7561@lemmy.ca]

My thoughts, exactly.

This move was simple intelligence gathering. Now he knows how the world will respond to this threat. He's far more prepared to do it for real the next time.

Canada should hold their ground and call his bluff. Make him suffer for just the idea of threatening us.

[cruxifux@feddit.nl]

Yeah I’m still never knowingly buying another US product ever again. Fuck them.

[cruxifux@feddit.nl]

Buy Canadian. Our beer and whisky is better anyway.

[biglime@lemmy.ml]

He backed down like the weak nepo baby he his

[theacharnian@lemmy.ca]

For the record, a trade deficit is not a bad thing, Trump is just obsessed with it because he's an idiot.

[matavatnik@lemmy.world]

So what happens after the 15th time Trump does this?

[resin85@lemmy.ca]

The increase in border security spending was announced back in December. The only real change announced today is that Canada will now stick the bogus title of Fentanyl Czar on someone. Oh, and the fact that Canadians now will actively avoid any American products. Great job mango Mussolini.

[windyrebel@lemmy.world]

I’m an American in a blue state and I voted for Kamala. I fully support this!

[inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world]

He pissed off the two biggest trade partners, already fucked over farmers with China with the last round of tariffs that never recovered, and most of the EU. Him and his idiot brain trust isn't exactly swimming in markets.

Also he doesn't want to source anything from anywhere, he's stuck in some dementia addled past that never existed where America produced everything and thinks he can do this overnight.

[drcobaltjedi@programming.dev]

American in a swing state, voted blue down ballot. Make us suffer for electing this moron.

[laranis@lemmy.zip]

This is the part the media and the economists get wrong. This was never about trade or the economy. Trump understands neither. What he does understand is power. Control. It is how he has always "negotiated". Find some pressure points you control, press on it (even if it makes no sense or, worse, actually causes suffering) and then wait for someone to offer something and declare victory.

No grand plan, no scheme, no 3d chess, no deep thought. Just flex and collect.

[someone@lemmy.ca]

I managed to do a pretty good grocery shop today and I managed to only buy 1 American onion. There was a local option but I couldn't justify buying (or carrying) 25lbs without a plan. It's a local grocery store though, and I'm confident they're working on making buying Canadian/boycotting American products much easier very soon.

[shalafi@lemmy.world]

C'mon, Trump was talking tariffs for months ahead of all that.

[cort@lemmy.world]

Yeah, he keeps bringing them up any time he needs to distract from any negative coverage of him or his own failings. They're now on pause after they succeeded in their goal of distraction.

Don't get me wrong, they'll come up again. And again. And again. It's one of the easiest levers he can pull or buttons he can press to get massive attention with very little impact to himself.

[greyeyedghost@lemmy.ca]

This is a key point. A lot of Canadians are going to avoid buying American, at which point it doesn't matter if they're product is on the shelves or if the price didn't go up, so there will still be some economic impact even if our leaders kiss and make up.

Trump didn't piss off one person, he pissed off millions, then gave them a target. And this isn't a unique event. Similar responses are happening in the EU and elsewhere.

[deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz]

The thing is, it's almost certain that the orange idiot will do this again next month, next quarter, next year, ad infinitum. He's also shown that it's mostly bluster, Canada called his bluff and he blinked. So now it's noise, risk, and unnecessary cost.

There's also no confidence that this nonsense will stop in four years, no confidence that another Trump won't be elected next time.

America's burned the last shred of respect it had left, and it's gone, for decades if not forever.

Every other country is going to do its best to divest itself of every dependency on the USA it can; find other buyers and find other sellers.

[cruxifux@feddit.nl]

Im skeptical that anything positive will come of this for either of our countries anyway. Things will just continue to get progressively worse for the working class.

[greyeyedghost@lemmy.ca]

Tariffs can have certain benefits if wielded with finesse in the right circumstances. Trump uses anything he has like a blunt object. The goal of the retaliatory tariffs was to cause key parts of America pain, rather than mostly Canada feeling the pain of these tariffs.

As for helping the working class. No tariffs are better than tariffs for that working class, but that group has been neglected or targeted for a long time.

[quafeinum@lemmy.world]

I think prince andrew has free time on his hands.