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US/Canada Trade War ?

Porkpie Hat said:
There are no subsidies. The reason trump is picking on Canada is because he desperately needs a tick in the win column and he sees Canada as an easy mark.

I hope my government will realise having so many of our eggs in the US basket can be detrimental to our economy in the instance of a really bad US president. If anything trump has shown is we need to strengthen economic bonds with other trading partners and lessen economic bonds with the US.
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You should go somewhere else, but you won't, because you can't.
 
logger said:
We'll just have to see how much of a loss we'll suffer. :rolleyes:
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I take it by "we" you mean "the Thais and Koreans". This wasn't a "US" initiative. It was an effort to keep competition out by Bumble Bee (TH), Starkist (KR) and Chicken of the Sea(TH). Those three brands have an 80 share.

Bwahaha! All your base canneries are belong to us!
 
Shalamar said:
And if softwood was trading at the same rate.. Then why bother to slap tariffs on Canadian Softwood? Canadian Softwood is desirable, because it's less expensive. If builders have to buy more expensive wood, then yes, prices will go up, and the building industry will lose jobs.
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This. It’s basically just a tax on building new homes with the exception that a large share of it instead of it will be pocketed by US producers instead of going towards reducing the deficit.

logger said:
Its only less expensive because the Canadians are subsidizing it. And no the building industry will not lose jobs from small needed increases in lumber. Its a good bet that prices will go up in the short term but come back down when they meet market demand.
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That’s not quite what the dispute is over. US producers think Canadian stumpage fees should be forced to be the same as what they have to pay in the US. Canada has more forest and less population so supply is higher, demand is lower which in a free market means stumpage fees need to be lower in Canada otherwise they would remain unsold.

Basically this is US producers trying skew the market and drive up prices to homebuyers by keeping this land unutilized and reducing the amount of lumber on the market.
 
Can the president withdraw from a treaty without Senate approval?
 
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ponderingturtle said:
So are they going to go after american beef and the lower fees for grazing on federal lands?
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Unlikely. It's only bad when the 'wrong people' do it. Wrong people means, other countries, brown people, 'leftists' (whatever a leftist is).

if the 'right' is doing it, there will never be any complaints. If 'leftists' (whatever a leftist is) were grazing cattle on federal land for reduced costs, the right would be up in arms, and frothing at the mouth over it.
 
Foolmewunz said:
I take it by "we" you mean "the Thais and Koreans". This wasn't a "US" initiative. It was an effort to keep competition out by Bumble Bee (TH), Starkist (KR) and Chicken of the Sea(TH). Those three brands have an 80 share.

Bwahaha! All your base canneries are belong to us!
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You mean Mexico could have sold dolphin tuna to the Thais and Koreans and not have had to meet these restrictions that US customers want?

One wonders why they didn't just do that?
 
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