Tariffs Catch-All

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BlueSteel said:
As long as Calla and OG are good with all this winning, then I am too. Obviously they know much more than we do about the chess play Trump is masterminding here. Let the good times roll! Weeeeehooooooooooooooooo!
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Any day now I am going to feel really stupid for thinking that Trump might possibly implement tariffs.
 
“Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin visited the White House on Wednesday carrying hopes of breaking through to President Donald Trump as European leaders look to tame an escalating trade war and close a widening fissure over aid to Ukraine.


But after a brief exchange of personal pleasantries in the Oval Office, Trump proceeded to bash Ireland and the European Union for tariffs and tax policies that he blamed for hurting the United States — an on-camera dressing-down that gave Martin little opportunity for a confidential appeal, nor much chance to get a word in edgewise.

“I’m not upset with you. I think I respect what you’ve done,” Trump told Martin, after complaining of American companies moving operations to Ireland to take advantage of lower corporate taxes. “I’d love to have them back but he’ll be fighting me.”

“If I could,” Martin interjected, “it’s a two-way street. We are investing a lot more in America now,” he said, naming Dublin-based Ryanair buying Boeing planes.

“I’ll trade positions,” Trump laughed. “There’s a massive deficit.”

… The meeting never rivaled the tensions on display with Trump’s Feb. 28 public rebuke of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. But it was not the summit many Europeans were hoping for. …”

 
www.abc.net.au

Albanese invokes 'Team Australia' in pitch to buy local after Trump tariffs

The PM suggests Australians should buy local goods instead of American ones ahead of a federal budget expected to have an "Australian-made" theme.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will urge Australians to "buy local" in a pre-election attempt to galvanise voter anger at Donald Trump after the US president refused to exempt Australian steel and aluminium from his tariff regime.

Adamant that retaliating with "revenge" tariffs would simply fuel domestic inflation, the prime minister instead invoked "Team Australia" in a flurry of radio calls on Wednesday afternoon.

"Australians can have an impact by buying Australian goods," he told ABC Melbourne. "Buy Bundy rather than some of the American products … You can make a difference."

Though Mr Albanese stopped short of advocating an American boycott like those seen in Canada, his language echoed the Canadian government's parochial response to Mr Trump, which has revived its flagging political fortunes.

Labor believes it can benefit from a milder version of that approach, according to senior sources who said next fortnight's budget would have an "Australian-made" focus.
 
cheknews.ca

'It's worth it': Urban Grocer replacing all U.S. produce suppliers

Urban Grocer staff in Victoria have removed nearly all U.S.-sourced produce from their shelves, and by next week, they will no longer have any of that country's produce.
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Urban Grocer staff in Victoria have removed nearly all U.S.-sourced produce from their shelves, and by next week, they will no longer have any of that country’s produce.

As Canada and the United States continue their trade war, Urban Grocer is taking its stance by removing all U.S. produce altogether.

“It’s worth it. We know it’s worth it,” said Urban Grocer general manager Gary Innis.
 
I guess today is Trade War with the EU Day.

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Also calling our EU allies “the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the World … formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States” seems excessive and very Putin whispering in his ear.
 
nycfan said:
I guess today is Trade War with the EU Day.

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Also calling our EU allies “the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the World … formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States” seems excessive and very Putin whispering in his ear.
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Someone ask him why? Why is this good for the wine and champagne businesses in the US? Why do you want US consumers to pay inflated prices on these goods? Didn't you run as Mr anti-inflation? Did you not realize that your anti-inflation and pro tariff positions were contradictory?
 
altmin said:
cheknews.ca

'It's worth it': Urban Grocer replacing all U.S. produce suppliers

Urban Grocer staff in Victoria have removed nearly all U.S.-sourced produce from their shelves, and by next week, they will no longer have any of that country's produce.
cheknews.ca cheknews.ca

Urban Grocer staff in Victoria have removed nearly all U.S.-sourced produce from their shelves, and by next week, they will no longer have any of that country’s produce.

As Canada and the United States continue their trade war, Urban Grocer is taking its stance by removing all U.S. produce altogether.

“It’s worth it. We know it’s worth it,” said Urban Grocer general manager Gary Innis.
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Trump voters - is this what you voted for?
 
nycfan said:
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FDR said that during the Great Depression.
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I really feel like everyone should read the fear itself line in its wider context and compare it to Trump:

“… This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.

In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.

More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.

Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.

Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.

True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.

The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing.

Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance; without them it cannot live. …”

 
nycfan said:
I guess today is Trade War with the EU Day.

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Also calling our EU allies “the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the World … formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States” seems excessive and very Putin whispering in his ear.
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FFS.
Other than bourbon my entire liquor cabinet is probably imports. Maybe a gin or two are local. Do i need to plan a trip to Canada this spring to pickup scotch, tequila, and liqueurs?

What else in my home is imported?
 
I was talking to a friend that lives in Nova Scotia last night. They had a trip planned to Nashville in May that they decided to cancel. They are all in (and many like them) on not supporting the US in anyway. There is genuine concern for Canada's security.
 
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