Well it's money for the gov't while hurting a consumer. Taxation is not hate your citizens. We have all kinds of taxation be it import, sins tax on liquor, tobacco, etc. Fuel taxes.

America has the cheapest goods compared to any first world country I've been in. Tariff imbalances likely contribute to that fact as in we import from the USA and have a imbalance of terrifs and thus all our imported products cost more than the equivalent in the USA.

Now you could argue if your pro gov't right now that governments are using that tax for good purposes, but the large consensus is they are not currently in most first world countries. Hence the push or change in most.

And now if you're looking at trade imbalance via total value of import export, I don't know if on here I've seen a post explaining why USA firms purchase xyz Canadian good.

This post was edited by SBD on Mar 14 2025 07:56am

I agree. I think it's funny that even when trump said reciprocal, people cried because they were so used to the imbalance.

US authorities have turned to Europe for help with the country's severe egg shortage. The shortfall is due to bird flu, which has plagued the United States for several years.

The Finnish Poultry Association says it has been contacted about exporting eggs to the US. The organisation's executive director, Veera Lehtilä, told Yle on Saturday that exporting eggs does not seem to be possible at the moment because no market access negotiations have been held with US authorities. This can be a drawn-out process involving extensive inspections and studies.

Doing simple math, on average American eggs are 32% higher than Canadian eggs.





4.85 Canadian Dollar equals
3.37 United States Dollar

3.37/4.95 = .68 = difference is 32%

Seems the primary reason is that there are less people in Canada and the smaller farmers in Canada are simply not as affected by the bird flu outbreak as the major poultry farmers in the U.S. This has nothing to do with politics in terms of cause.

HOWEVER, if you are arguing that Trump's trade wards make it difficult for Trump to secure eggs from foreign sources in a short term to help the American eggs prices, you do have a pretty decent argument. Whether or not this is truly a cause and effect of Trump's targetted tariffs is up in the air imo as everything is still short term.

Eggs in my homestate are pretty much the same price as teh average egg in Canada.

This post was edited by Ryvulet on Mar 16 2025 09:17am

The article i quoted there is about the us seeking assistance from the eu for their egg shortage while raising tarrifs on eu. You don't see the irony there?

Trade wars will make it difficult for the us to get much support as there's a global shift away from buying American but canada has said they will provide eggs if needed

I do see some slight irony, yes. But I feel that even if there is an advantageous trade deal made out to EU in comparison to what they sell their eggs domestically for to the US it would be all fair.

I'm not in agreement with permanent tariffs unless we were already getting them in trade.

A google search by the AI states 0-17% on average per product exported by the US and imported to Finland had a tariff on it. I'm not sure how accurate that is and a short search of the first sources of information didn't give any hard data so I take the AI talk with a grain of salt.

That said, I feel that I'm not informed enough to comment on each individual countries tariff scenario. I do know that the US gets a ton of tariffs on their products. What is the problem with reciprocation?

Curious to learn how these tarriffs effect congressman Jim Jordan's family members business in Canada.



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This post was edited by said_aouita on Mar 18 2025 09:50am

Appears snap election called April 28th.

Guess its still rumors but appears likely. Guess we will know for sure after Sunday

This post was edited by SBD on Mar 20 2025 02:42pm

Vehicle tarrifs now in place. Please can we move to more compact vehicles sold in non NA markets. You would have an absolute influx of buying for those of us that just aren't interest in some piece of shit Ford or Dodge that's now 70k.

North Americans have been brainwashed to buy oversized cars and you have American brands moving more and more of their lines into "luxery segments" try to try market a piece of garbage 90k jeep and slowly eliminating / manufacturing lower amounts of base trim models while producing more upper trim models sold at large markups for features I think most average people would be happy to pass up.

Let's see how it all unfolds. Can't imagine suddenly Canada 180s and allows a bunch of BYD plants to come in. But I sure would love to see some manufacturing verity.

A national U.S. pork organization is lobbying the Canadian federal government to drop its tariffs on the U.S. pork industry.

According to a blog entry on the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) website, the NPPC has written to Canada’s Department of Finance, noting that “tit-for-tat tariff exchanges” will disrupt supply chains built between the two countries over decades.

“We request that Canada seeks to preserve the benefits of the integrated North American market to the maximum extent practicable, including by excluding U.S. pork imports from retaliation,” read the missive.