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Leaving China aside, Mr. Trump’s justification for this economic assault on the neighbors makes no sense,
Mr. Trump sometimes sounds as if the US shouldn’t import anything at all, that America can be a perfectly closed economy making everything at home
The “Tariff Lobby,” headed by the Globalist, and always wrong, Wall Street Journal, is working hard to justify Countries like Canada, Mexico, China, and too many others to name, continue the decades long RIPOFF OF AMERICA, both with regard to TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS that are allowed to so freely flow into AMERICA,
Trump wrote Sunday morning on Truth Social American consumers will feel the bite of higher costs for some goods.
On Friday, the right-leaning editorial board of the Wall Street Journal newspaper blasted Trump's tariffs in a piece titled 'The Dumbest Trade War in History,' saying We allow them to take lumber
Last month, Trump said of Canada specifically The tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China send a powerful message that the United States will no longer stand by as other nations fail to halt the flow of illegal drugs and immigrants into our country,
House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) said in a statement There’s going to be a wide range of metrics [for success on the issue] in Donald Trump’s golden age. We will have only legal immigration, and we will have zero Americans dying from Chinese slash Mexican slash Canadian fentanyl,
said the official, who was granted anonymity per the ground rules for the press briefing The industry will shut down in the U.S. and Canada and Mexico within a week, much like we saw it happen during the first phase of the pandemic and the Ambassador Bridge blockade,
said Volpe, who is also a member of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Council on Canada-U.S. Relations, a group that includes interests from politics, business, labor and industry President Trump’s decision to impose universal tariffs is a bold and necessary step toward reversing decades of failed trade policies and rebuilding America’s manufacturing and agricultural industries,
Zach Mottl, the group’s chair, said To President Trump, I can only say this: This is not a smart move. It’s selfish. It not only hurts Canadians, it hurts your own people. It hurts you and your administration. … It makes Americans poorer,
Every promise made by the President during the campaign about lowering costs, reducing inflation, and putting the working and middle-class first was a lie,
Erecting a tariff wall around the U.S. and replacing traded goods with domestically-made ones would force the creation of low-wage, low-value-added jobs — when workers to fill those jobs aren’t even available,
Murphy wrote on the social media platform X The impact of these tariffs will be felt almost immediately. Company’s orders are going to slow down. Factories will have to reduce shifts. Workers may lose their jobs across Ontario,
Tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China are SIGNED!”
he said, accompanied by a siren emoji If the American economy is going to see the boom that Donald Trump is predicting they are going to need more energy, more steel and aluminum, more critical minerals, more of the things that Canada sells to the United States every single day,
The political problem for President Trump would not be so much the small increase in the average US price level as price spikes in recognizable goods, like gasoline at the pump in some locations, certain auto brands, avocados, and tomatoes,
We don’t think it’s going to happen really, ... And if it happens, we also have our plan.”
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was skeptical Wednesday Trump would follow through with his threat, telling reporters The fentanyl coming through Canada is massive. The fentanyl coming through Mexico is massive,
he said at a press conference Thursday Consumers are going to pay for that in some capacity because in the end, you have less supply available in the market, and prices are going to be somewhat higher on the margin,
What we’ve seen in these types of circumstances when the United States has put tariffs on another country is an attempt by our trading partners to target really sensitive stakeholders and locations,
said Greta Peisch, a trade lawyer at Wiley Rein who was general counsel for the U.S. Trade Representative during the Biden administration
