Kanada, um viele Vergeltungszölle auf US -Waren zu entfernen: Quelle

A terrible thing to do.

Why cave? They know they can roll over this govt easily. The Conservatives will win the messaging on this one.

The largest consumer in the world has a lot of leverage, I don’t know how people didn’t see this coming. Pivoting to other consumer markets isn’t something that can happen over night, and our economy does *not* have the flexibility to weather pain for long. This was inevitable.

Ah, whatever. Still not buying U.S goods if I have alternate choices. If most of Canada follows that mindset, they won’t stock their goods regardless.

I mean, in a way, I think the Buy Canadian/Not American movement is strong enough on it’s own now to exert economic pressure.

I don’t think we have the full picture, but American media will certainly try to paint this as capitulation.

Here’s the thing with retaliatory tariffs. We all know (except a lot of Americans apparently) that the country importing the goods pays the tariff. So if a Canadian company imports goods from the USA, they would have to pay an extra tax to the Canadian government. This hurts the Canadian business‘ income. The reason for doing a tariff is to financially incentivize Canadians and Canadian businesses to buy domestic products instead.

In Canada though… We have this thing called the „mass boycott“ going on that is taking place at the grassroots level. Canadian consumers are already voluntarily avoiding American products without the need for a tariff to encourage them to buy domestic. So the retaliatory tariffs more than anything hurt the Canadian businesses that have their inputs come either from the USA or a supply chain that runs through the USA. At this point the trade-off isn’t worth it from the retaliatory tariffs and we are just hurting ourselves with them. Thanks to the boycott though, we can benefit from increased domestic demand without the need for tariffs.

Look, if we have to retaliate, we need to put a surcharge on exports, not tariff on imports. Tarrifs are a tax on Canadians. We should have additional tax on businesses which export to US and refuse to diversify.

Additionally, we can continue to do elbows up and just not consume the unhygienic food stuff coming from USA and avoid travel, education and other consumption ( including juice and alcohol) from there. That is unofficial and we can still get our way.

The Digital Sales Tax was given up for nothing in return

Now removing most of the retaliatory tariffs for nothing in return

Can someone explain what the government’s negotiation strategy is here?

If it’s removing the tariffs on CUSMA-compliant goods then that’s fine, we should honour our deals.

What I want to know is what we get out of it. Does this help our small businesses survive or will they crash anyway because of US tariffs? Will the US reduce tariffs in response? Will this be part of a smoothing-out with the US for an incoming trade deal?

If we get none of those things, in addition to austerity, worsening trade relations, AI automation looming large in the background ready to destroy jobs, and more lukewarm attempts at trade diversification, then it’s just capitulation and both the LPC and CPC were playing the Canadian people for suckers.

One positive of all this shifting tariff chaos is that CBSA doesn’t really seem to be assessing duties on imports from non-US countries as they used to. I imagine all the human resources are focusing on US source goods. I’ve had several shipments now from Japan, including one high value shipment, in the last couple months and none have been assessed duties or GST. The last non-US source import where I’ve actually had to pay anything was a shipment from France, but it seems to be less common.