Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday that Canada will respond to Donald Trump's tariffs with 25 per cent tariffs on $155 billion of U.S. goods.»»» ...
And the same thing will happen to Americans and American companies, and to Mexico and Mexican companies.
Trump has just decided he’s going to trash the entire economy of North America, and destroy any chance of anyone being willing to make a new trade treaty with the US for at least the next twenty years, because the US can’t be relied upon to actually hold up their end of it.
We can’t fix what he’s broken. Best we can manage is to diminish the chances of anyone trying it again.
And the same thing will happen to Americans and American companies, and to Mexico and Mexican companies.
Trump has just decided he’s going to trash the entire economy of North America, and destroy any chance of anyone being willing to make a new trade treaty with the US for at least the next twenty years, because the US can’t be relied upon to actually hold up their end of it.
We can’t fix what he’s broken. Best we can manage is to diminish the chances of anyone trying it again.