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And the biggest one in NC is owned by Chiner Do they get a check?
Tariffs Catch-All
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I was wondering about that. I couldn't remember if that deal actually went through or got blocked.
One of the reasons China was interested in buying the pork producer was specifically to avoid vulnerability in a trade war.
China has been executing its industrial policies at a very high level for two decades. That's why China has the most dynamic economy in the world right now. Think about what it's been achieving despite the legacy from the 20th century. People talk about China's demographics -- well, again, that's a problem mostly inherited from the old, pre-Deng past. It does have an advantage in terms of its population; that's its natural resource.
I don't think a centralized economy is the way for most countries to go. That would be true even if we push other concerns -- i.e. lack of freedom, corruption, authoritarianism -- to the side. But the centralized economy works for China. We should have been paying attention to industrial policy for the past decades but the problem is the GOP keeps fucking it up. Not the only problem, but a big one.
When people talk about the Rust Belt and the decline of American manufacturing, etc. they often cast it as a trade issue. NAFTA is the villain in that story. The WTO is the villain in that story. But trade isn't the issue. It was the lack of industrial policy that had more of an effect. And the fact that our Senate is fucked up and makes it very hard to build the type of huge industrial campus that China has so many of.
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Reading about China’s process for driving manufacturing their advanced are impressive.
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Subaru to make cars for the Canadian market in Japan, rather than the US.
President Donald Trump's tariffs just cost America a chunk of Canadian business.
Subaru, which sold 68,043 cars in Canada in 2024, is reshuffling its supply chain in response to escalating car trade scuffles.
The company sold over 17,700 American-built vehicles in Canada last year, making up 26 percent of its 2024 sales.
But the Japanese automaker’s Canadian division will slash US imports to just 10 percent by the 2026 model year, representing thousands of cars and millions of dollars lost.
The biggest impact will be on the American-built Outback. The popular car will no longer ship north after 2026.
Instead, it will feature a 'made in Japan' badge.
Subaru Canada's CEO, Tomohiro Kubota, said the move will 'minimize the impact of the counter surtax,' according to Automotive News Canada.
For Subaru, it’s cheaper to build and ship cars out of Japan than deal with the political whiplash of US trade policy.
President Donald Trump's tariffs just cost America a chunk of Canadian business.
Subaru, which sold 68,043 cars in Canada in 2024, is reshuffling its supply chain in response to escalating car trade scuffles.
The company sold over 17,700 American-built vehicles in Canada last year, making up 26 percent of its 2024 sales.
But the Japanese automaker’s Canadian division will slash US imports to just 10 percent by the 2026 model year, representing thousands of cars and millions of dollars lost.
The biggest impact will be on the American-built Outback. The popular car will no longer ship north after 2026.
Instead, it will feature a 'made in Japan' badge.
Subaru Canada's CEO, Tomohiro Kubota, said the move will 'minimize the impact of the counter surtax,' according to Automotive News Canada.
For Subaru, it’s cheaper to build and ship cars out of Japan than deal with the political whiplash of US trade policy.
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Posthaste: Canadian travel boycott hits American economy in realtime Fed snapshot
Federal Reserve Beige Book chronicles drop in tourism from Canada across diverse U.S. regions
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Canadians’ ongoing boycott of travelling to the United States is showing up in the U.S. Federal Reserve‘s real-time snapshot of the American economy, which one economist called a “really big deal.”
The Fed’s Beige Book, released on Wednesday, includes reports from cities across the U.S. that say Canadian travel has noticeably fallen off in many regions across the country.
“I’ve been doing this for 40 years, and it’s the first time I’ve ever seen a Beige Book replete with so many comments about not just a Canadian boycott, but an international boycott against travel to the United States,” David Rosenberg, founder of Rosenberg Research & Associates Inc., said.
The Beige Book, which he called “the most comprehensive qualitative analysis on the U.S. economy,” provides a snapshot of the 12 Fed districts. The information is anecdotal, gathered from businesses and community leaders, and provides a way to keep an eye on the economy from the ground up. It also provides insights into emerging trends ahead of incoming data that can be backward-looking.
“Both leisure and business travel were down, on balance, and several districts noted a decline in international visitors,” the Beige Book’s national summary said.
Tourism operators in nine of the districts reported a noticeable decline in travel by Canadians.
“Travel from Canada declined noticeably, and contacts feared that summer travel from Europe and China could suffer as well because of negative reactions to U.S. tariff policies,” the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston said. “More broadly, tourism contacts expressed concerns that declining consumer confidence could hurt leisure spending.”
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis said: “Tourism contacts also reported declines in Canadian travellers and related spending; a North Dakota retailer saw a ‘deep impact’ starting in mid-February, pushing first-quarter revenues down seven percent.”
