Canada to challenge Trump's tariffs at WTO, seeks redress under free trade deal

[microwave@lemm.ee]

Summary

Canada will file a WTO complaint and seek redress under the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (CUSMA) against Trump’s new tariffs, calling them a violation of trade commitments.

Trump imposed 25% tariffs on most Canadian imports, with a 10% levy on energy.

In response, Canada announced $30 billion in counter-tariffs on 1,256 U.S. goods, with a potential second round reaching $155 billion.

Officials hope the U.S. reconsiders, but further measures remain an option.

[jlh@lemmy.jlh.name]

The resistance is strong

[dogsnest@lemmy.world]

I'm sure Trump is sh-sh-shaking.

[sinningstromgald@lemmy.world]

Odds Trump will threaten to leave the WTO if they don't agree with him?

[reverendender@sh.itjust.works]

I’ll take the under

[reverendender@sh.itjust.works]

While they battle it out, we all pay the higher prices. For no reason whatsoever.

[dan1101@lemm.ee]

Yeah he's like the bratty sensitive kid that will take his ball and go home if he doesn't get his way.

[irateanteater@sh.itjust.works]

Pretty low I'd say. They'll just ignore the ruling like they always do.

[whatamlemmy@lemmy.world]

It's a ploy to distract everyone while he robs the country blind and implements the dictatorship.

Hitler took 53 days. Trumps on track to break that record, because criminally corrupt authoritarians didn't hold a majority in the Weimar Republic.

[kichae@lemmy.ca]

Higher than usual, though, because Trump's ego cannot stand being told "no" even when it's a totally toothless rejection.

[technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Imagine believing that a genocidal empire cares about trade laws... I mean... Sure they care about trade laws much more than genocide... But still.

[betablake@lemmy.world]

Which genocidal empire are you referencing here?

[yeahiknow3@lemmings.world]

The US with Christian Nationalists at the helm.

[pilferjinx@lemmy.world]

Who is the US genociding now? If you mean Israel you have to include the whole collective west as enablers.

[randomgal@lemmy.ca]

Do they pay you or are you just thick?

[pilferjinx@lemmy.world]

I guess I'm thick?? Who is the US genociding right now? Immigrants?

[yeahiknow3@lemmings.world]

Currently, Palestinians.

There are also legal plans to finish erasing the Native Americans. Trump found out a handful of them are still alive apparently. The US is also hellbent on exterminating dolphins and every other living creature until we’re all living in a Mad Max post apocalyptic bible land.

[pilferjinx@lemmy.world]

I'm so sick of this Zionist shit. Blaming the US for Israels genocide is grotesque. It's their genocide and they can fucking stop at any time.

[yeahiknow3@lemmings.world]

Well, yes, but Americans support Zionism, which the current president has explicitly endorsed.

[pilferjinx@lemmy.world]

There are many nations that support Israels genocide. It makes them all complicit even in abstention. Israel still has all the power to stop at any time.