This will devastate the U.S. Brontosaurus Burger and Pyramid Building Industries!

[Kyle]

Canada Slaps Tariffs on Flamethrowers, Manatee Meat, Fake Beards, and Live Monkeys in Response to Trump


Canada slapped 25 percent tariffs on about 1,800 American products in March, and will implement 4,400 more on April 2, the day President Donald Trump plans to announce higher tariffs against every country that taxes U.S. imports.

Many of Canada’s tariffs are bizarrely targeted at imports that are virtually nonexistent, leading critics to suspect the list has been padded with nonsense to make the Canadian response look much tougher than it really is.

CTV on Sunday listed some of the “odd and obscure” imports targeted by Canada, including “flamethrowers, false beards, church bell cases, and live monkeys,” plus “manatee meat and passenger drones.”

Canadians will soon find themselves paying more for imported American accordion parts, emus, bovine semen, and clothing made with asbestos fibers.

Canada Slaps Tariffs on Flamethrowers, Manatee Meat, Fake Beards, and Live Monkeys in Response to Trump

Many of Canada’s tariffs are targeted at imports that are virtually nonexistent, leading critics to suspect the list has been padded.

www.breitbart.com

 

[GregV814]

oh noooooooooooo!

 

[Kinnakeet]

Canada Slaps Tariffs on Flamethrowers, Manatee Meat, Fake Beards, and Live Monkeys in Response to Trump


Canada slapped 25 percent tariffs on about 1,800 American products in March, and will implement 4,400 more on April 2, the day President Donald Trump plans to announce higher tariffs against every country that taxes U.S. imports.

Many of Canada’s tariffs are bizarrely targeted at imports that are virtually nonexistent, leading critics to suspect the list has been padded with nonsense to make the Canadian response look much tougher than it really is.

CTV on Sunday listed some of the “odd and obscure” imports targeted by Canada, including “flamethrowers, false beards, church bell cases, and live monkeys,” plus “manatee meat and passenger drones.”

Canadians will soon find themselves paying more for imported American accordion parts, emus, bovine semen, and clothing made with asbestos fibers.

Canada Slaps Tariffs on Flamethrowers, Manatee Meat, Fake Beards, and Live Monkeys in Response to Trump

Many of Canada’s tariffs are targeted at imports that are virtually nonexistent, leading critics to suspect the list has been padded.

www.breitbart.com

Those asbestos sweaters are warm and safe as long as the fibers are not friable...lol

 

[SamSpade]

I was just looking at some data online --

Canada is in fact our biggest trade partner - or second, behind Mexico depending on the source and year --

But while we do enormous business with the EU, China and SE Asia - Canada largely depends on us for both import and export. We're like 75% of theirs, both ways.

They need us - we really don't need them.

OTOH - the trade imbalance is vastly overstated. It's not as high as the numbers Trump is giving.
Again, on the OTHER hand - Canada has close to parity in trade with almost all its other trading partners - actually small deficits - but has a huge surplus with us - and the United Kingdom. They don't treat us as fairly as they do everyone else.

 

[vraiblonde]

Those wacky Canadians.

 

[Monello]

Ignore the fear porn that the media is trying to gin up.

The United States has one of the lowest tariff rates in the world, at 1.5 percent, while the global average among all nations is about 2.6 percent.

link

 

[thurley42]

“manatee meat and passenger drones.”

Canadians will soon find themselves paying more for imported American accordion parts, emus, bovine semen, and clothing made with asbestos fibers.

uhhhhhhh what?