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

[Rainingalldayonmyhead]

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

He says it’s because of phen and illegal immigration - less than 1% come from Canada.

This will have significant implications for the Canadian economy, the American economy and by domino the world. Not to mention the fact it could start a significant trade war.

The US doesn’t subsidise Canada - they buy Canadian goods. Approx 40% of their crude oil comes from Canada for example.

There is also an agreed trade deal between the US/Canada and Mexico that Trump agreed to and signed in his first years in office.

YABU - it doesn’t matter to me
YANBU - let’s stand up to a bully and support our allies

Alcohol is a good one if you drink.

@Rainingalldayonmyhead wines yes. Most of the beers are made here under license via InBev.

My small contribution has been never to buy foreign fresh produce (often US) when the Aussie stuff is out of season and never have since I moved here. NZ don't count as foreign in my book. Having said that, so much Aussie farmland has been bought up by China the whole thing is becoming a moot point.

I don't do the fast food places because I don't like the food so no moral high ground for me there.

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What is he even talking about?

Visiting Canada in the summer: had also planned a trip to the US whilst we are there (Vancouver - Seattle). Now planning to stay in Canada.

The Orange Man is batshit crazy. That’s all I have to say.

Yeah call me crazy but I hold the opinion of someone who dresses in blackface for fun in very little regard.

good article on the tariff situation in The Atlantic:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/price-america-trump-tariffs/681546/

I'm not in the UK but am struggling to think of any American made goods I could stop buying. I can't imagine there are lots in the UK either?

Oh, maybe the odd bit of fruit?

Amazon is the best target. It’s also a horrid company in general and encourages wasteful spending, so a goof target for reducing as much as possible.

I rarely buy from Amazon. Only the odd book or CD which I can't find anywhere else.

Instead of just thinking where a good is made, consider where the money goes from the purchase. An iPhone might not be made in the US, but Apple is a US company and and that’s where the profits go. Same with anything sold on Amazon. Tge parent company is in the US.

I'm Canadian, and while there will be some repercussions from this I don't think they will last, for a number of reasons. I'm not really convinced they are even intended to last.

I don't necessarily think though that the idea that it's "mean" to have tariffs is a very relevant argument, and I don't think it would be a good reason to want to punish the US as a matter of principle. If it were in fact a good thing for their economy in some way, protected jobs at home say, it's the job of the American government to seek the best interests of the American economy, not the Canadian economy.

Up until 5 minutes ago, much of the left were unsupportive of free trade, saw it as exploitative, and I do find it a bit odd that now it's considered immoral to do anything else? Does anyone remember the WTO protests?

Anyway, there have always been disputes abiyt US trade, notably over lumber and milk, because the US thinks the way we manage those is unfair - agreements like NAFTA really limit the degree to which a country can manage it's industries, which is something to think about - this includes supporting industries, environmental regulations, supply management, you name it.

In this case, Canada is going to retaliate, and it will all likely go to a negotiation fairly soon, IMO, with the Americans gunning for what they consider to be a better deal.

I think we are in for an actual war war. Trump has been open about making Canada the 51st state. Once Americans realize this week that “putting tariffs on Canada” is Trumpspeak for “a new consumer tax on Americans”, there will be chaos. . He will then declare martial law, either Vance or Musk will emerge as the person with the actual power, and we will see informal, militia style encroachments on towns on the Canadian side of the border. 80% of Canadians live within a 2 hour drive of the US border and the US, this is a very real threat.

All owned by china. Get with the program. Been bought out years ago

Even McDonald’

Oh. If only they'd thought of that, huh?

Sounding a little like "Lord Frost" negoatiating Brexit.

Now, back in the real world...

The US has 335 million people.

What people should boycott is buying anything from companies that have their headquarters and pay corporation tax in the US.

We have.

Only have an opinion if you live in the United States of America. I would never think I knew how you live bc I don’t know you

The UK imports a substantial amount of pharmaceuticals/medications from the US and an AI search tells me that half of the UK chemicals come from US.

I’ve wondered if some of that stuff comes from another country via the US to UK. (The US being the middleman). And would it be possible to cut out the middleman?

At any rate imports aren’t the just things people can choose to live without.

You all assume we Americans are wealthy and act like idiots. We don’t. We save for retirement just like you. I’m tired of seeing the crap over and over again how dumb we are. We’re just like you. We struggle just like you. We’re all the same guys.

Owned by china, look it up