Stop buying American goods after Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico

Looks like there is going to be booing when the US National Anthem is sung at hockey games

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nhl/never-seen-the-anthem-booed-top-us-sport-torn-apart-by-bombshell-political-call/news-story/5fdf15a7910bd908373d57469d999cc7

I thought Trudeau's speech was pretty good. Maybe this paves the way for Carney to be next Canadian PM (wishful thinking). The UK is weak here and needs to be in trade bloc with its nearest neighbours - blindingly obvious. I wonder why it's not? Oh.

Yes this is what I find baffling. Why does so much power sit with the president?

What products are you suggesting we boycott?

The only American thing I knowingly buy is the lovely milkshakes Lidl sells during their occasional American themed weeks. But seeing as they are manufactured in this country I don't think it would count!

I would have thought most immigrants or asylum seekers would prefer to get to Canada, with its free healthcare and generally better benefits system? I have no actual idea about the figures though. Having lived in Canada (where I did in fact need some quite expensive and specialised heathcare, which was completely free) and spent time in the US, I just know where I would rather be, for many reasons.

What I don't understand is how one man can have the power to instigate such massive decisions. Surely there is a team of economists and advisors and the decisions are made collectively? I mean, Trump is an idiot, in no way a good businessman let alone an economist, and mad to boot. How can he unilaterally make these decisions?!

I think a lot of countries around the world will be looking for more stable markets than the US for their products. Trump may (or may not) have the upper hand at the minute, but he's sowing seeds that may affect the US for many years to come. If I was running a company with a lot of trade with the US I would urgently be looking for other markets and suppliers, it sounds ridiculous to say but trading with the US has suddenly become too risky.

The tit for tat tariff war is not going to be good for anyone whatever Trump thinks.

• Google AI says *United Kingdom: The UK imports peanuts from Argentina, Brazil, the Netherlands, and Nicaragua* . I appreciate that the AI itself is from America though. I must have missed all the peanut farms in the Netherlands all the times I've been there.

And that sort of “not my problem” approach is why the world is in this current mess.

I guess wines and spirits, almonds, prunes, that kind of thing is definitely directly imported. Ironically, a lot from California which is not a Trump state. Netflix? I don't buy coke, KFC, McDonald's or Starbucks - and, even if I did, boycotting them here hits UK jobs.

Unfortunately threatening Trump like that could have consequences.

DS and I were talking about this - how Trump demands respect.

"Hey Canada, nice country, wouldn't it be a shame if something happened to it"

I’m happy to not buy American wine or beer, but I don’t buy those things anyway. I can’t think of anything I do buy that is cut-and-dried American. I agree the tariffs are a lousy idea, and am certainly willing to take a closer look and avoid American produce for now, but also echo what others say about individual boycotts being less than a tiny drop in the biggest of oceans.

Trudeau and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum both announced the counter-tariffs last night - it’s going to get interesting 🤣

We as a country don’t buy a lot from the US but I will be looking into what I can do to reduce US consumption.

When prices of food, energy, goods, cars etc undoubtably sky rocket for US citizens it will all change although watch this space for the blame elsewhere when he will have to back track.

Aren't you American and a Trump supporter?

I think he'd already said something about EU next.

@Reallybadidea "I feel sorry for those who didn't vote for him because they're going to suffer too."

So do I. And I'd like to think it might open the eyes of a few Trump evangelists when this blows up in their faces, but I have no doubt that they will just peg it on the Biden government somehow 🙄.

The US and the UK do a lot of trade in services.

https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-country/usa/partner/gbr

When it comes to trade, apparently we import a lot of nitrogen heterocyclic compounds...used as a basis for drugs, pesticides

And crude oil and gas

Not really things I can personally boycott then.

I don't drink Pepsi or Coke. I don't buy Levis or any other fashion product. I wouldn't touch American meat with a bargepole. My peanuts from Lidl don't display a source.

*turn it off

19.5kgs of fentanyl was intercepted moving from Canada to the US last year. Basically 2 big babies worth. Next to nothing. It is estimated that more illegals enter Canada from the US than the other way around.

Trumps justification for the tariffs is completely nonsensical, which is par for the course. I've read that a large part of the eastern seaboard is powered by Canadian electricity (hydroelectric etc), and if they decide to turn it would plunge millions of people into darkness. If this includes the White House, then hopefully they do it!

But I thought all of this was going to reduce the cost of groceries and utilities for Americans? Surely Trump hasn't agreed to stuff he evidently has no clue about! I suspect they'll be clamouring to reinstate the cheap, exploitative labour if they're that set on producing more themselves- or more likely it'll all be reversed before it happens.