President Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on Canada in retaliation for the tariffs the Canadians have imposed on us that make it very difficult for American farmers and other businesses to sell their goods in Canada. Below is a list of some of the tariffs the Canadian government has imposed on American goods which Ed Morrissey posted on
Hot Air.com:
- Milk: 270%
- Cheese: 245%
- Butter: 298%
- Chicken: 238%
- Sausages: 69.9%
- Barley seed: 57-57.8%
- Copper: 48%
- Aluminum: 45%
- Steel: 25%
- Cars: 45%
- TVs: 45%
- Eggs: 163%
- Wheat: 94%
- Bovine/Meat: 26.5%
The original source of this list was a Canadian who gleaned the data from a source titled Global Affairs Canada and posted it on X. He went on to say that "We [the Canadians] started the trade war. Most Canadian businesses are taxed heavily by the government and couldn't survive without imposing tariffs on the USA. This is the price of socio-communism."
Free trade is a good thing but it has to be based on mutual fairness otherwise it doesn't work. Tariffs on Canadian goods imported into the U.S. will doubtless hurt American consumers, but Mr. Trump believes that the Canadians have taken advantage of American largesse for long enough and that it's time to end it, even if imposing reciprocal tariffs causes some short-term pain to Americans.
