Kanadas Handelsstrategie leidet unter Wahnvorstellungen der Freundschaft
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-canada-trade-strategy-delusions-of-friendship/
Kanadas Handelsstrategie leidet unter Wahnvorstellungen der Freundschaft
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-canada-trade-strategy-delusions-of-friendship/
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Canada’s leaders often mistakenly view international trade relationships through a lens of friendship or family, which invites systemic economic vulnerability. Historical precedents, from British Prime Minister Robert Peel’s market disruptions to modern trade conflicts with the United States and China, repeatedly demonstrate that international trade is fundamentally transactional and situational. The repeated pattern of economic shock when trade partners abruptly change terms reveals a persistent misconception among Canadian policymakers about the true nature of international commerce. The critical takeaway is that countries engage in trade solely to serve their own economic and political interests, and Canada must abandon its idealistic notion of trade partnerships as anything more than strategic economic interactions.
Prior to the recent trade spat, the highest tariff levels the US had on Canada was I believe 30% on softwood lumbers.
The highest (TOQ) tariffs Canada had on the US were between 200-300% on major industries like poultry and dairy, with a TOQ system designed to deny consumer level products from exemption.
It’s fine for Canada to set up trade barriers to protect its domestic industries from US exports but the pretension that tariffs are some new and outrageous betrayal of Canadian goodwill is a bit ridiculous. (Although it’s simultaneously true that many of Trumps comments have been absurd and outrageous and violative of diplomatic norms.)