Tariffs Catch-All

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And so far, it’s been a big success.

“We’re, you know, just really trying to promote the local farms,” he said.

“And the Canadian farms. And so it’s been very, very good for us. The customers have been very appreciative of it.”

The experiment has not been without its challenges.

When Green found out they could only get cauliflower from the U.S., he realized it was currently cauliflower season in Holland.

“So we reached out to a few suppliers and said, ‘Hey, can you get Holland cauliflower for us?'” he said.

“We ended up finding some, brought it in, and you know it’s a little bit more expensive to bring in because you’re flying it in. But we just took, you know, a less margin, sell it at a regular price and be able to give the customer something that they can buy until B.C. cauliflower was available.”

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Sylvain Charlebois, with the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University, researches food distribution, security and safety.

He told Global News that what Urban Grocer is doing points to a broader movement against American products at the grocery store.

“What’s really interesting is that people haven’t really boycotted chains like Walmart or Costco, but they’re boycotting products,” he said.

“And the boycott naturally worked. If you look at the data, not surveys, actual sales data, according to NielsenIQ, by volume, sales for American food products are down about 8.5 per cent.”
 
Again, I am not an economist, but if your biggest trading partner has reduced their consumption by nearly 10% overall, how is that good for American jobs?
 
Loblaw is the largest grocery corporation in Canada.

Loblaw says tariffs are pushing Canadian shoppers to swap out U.S. goods, with some sales plunging 50%.

In a LinkedIn post Wednesday, Loblaw president and CEO Per Bank said sales volumes on products marked with a “T” — U.S.-sourced items affected by tariffs — declined 15 to 20 per cent, demonstrating that there is a “strong desire by consumers to continue supporting Canadian products and brands.”


Some declines are nearer to 50 per cent, where stronger alternative options are available, he adds.

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Meanwhile, Loblaw is looking for suppliers not impacted by tariffs. It added 70 new suppliers in its second quarter, bringing the number of new Canadian venders this year to 100, Bank says.
 

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that she had spoken with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and that the two had agreed to strengthen trade collaboration, particularly in light of the tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump set to go in effect on August 1.


"We both agreed that the (U.S.-Canada-Mexico) trade agreement needed to be respected, and we shared our experiences about the letter than we received from President Trump," Sheinbaum said in her daily morning press conference.

Trump has sent a flurry of letters in recent days, threatening to slap a range of tariffs on U.S. trade partners.

Sheinbaum said she and Carney spoke about the strategies both countries were taking to negotiated with the Trump administration ahead of the August 1 deadline.
 

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that she had spoken with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and that the two had agreed to strengthen trade collaboration, particularly in light of the tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump set to go in effect on August 1.


"We both agreed that the (U.S.-Canada-Mexico) trade agreement needed to be respected, and we shared our experiences about the letter than we received from President Trump," Sheinbaum said in her daily morning press conference.

Trump has sent a flurry of letters in recent days, threatening to slap a range of tariffs on U.S. trade partners.

Sheinbaum said she and Carney spoke about the strategies both countries were taking to negotiated with the Trump administration ahead of the August 1 deadline.
This was inevitable but it's an incredibly important development, and I really hope the sane Pubs in DC will pay attention before it's too late. Trump's tariff plan has about a 2% chance of resulting in better trade deals for the US. It has a 98% chance of causing our most important trading partners to look for ways to cut us out of the loop. And, not surprisingly, the 98% chance is what appears to be happening now.
 
Apologies if this question shouldn’t be asked here, but it is tariff related.

My phone is 5 years old and it’s about time to upgrade. I’d like to wait a little longer, but this tariff BS has me thinking maybe I should just get one now. Who knows what’s going to happen in a few weeks/months.

What do you think? More TACO or are we going to see prices going up soon?
 
Apologies if this question shouldn’t be asked here, but it is tariff related.

My phone is 5 years old and it’s about time to upgrade. I’d like to wait a little longer, but this tariff BS has me thinking maybe I should just get one now. Who knows what’s going to happen in a few weeks/months.

What do you think? More TACO or are we going to see prices going up soon?
Both.
 
Maybe trump could just start a world sales tax with all of the revenues going to the trump foundation, via the United States.

10% on everything sold every where in the world...
Don't give him ideas. As to "the trump foundation"; most have simply forgotten the real Trump charity foundation which was funded principally by wealthy supporters who were using the "charity" to pass money indirectly to the Slug. Oh, if Trumpians only knew slug slime is next to impossible to wash off... that's a fact.
 
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If they do this, it will be another blow to EVs and to renewable energy (which relies on and sometimes is composed only of lithium-ion batteries). And increase cost of most high end consumer electronics.
 
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