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

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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

Cement?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_cement

Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general use around the world as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco, and non-specialty grout. It was developed from other types of hydraulic lime in England in the early 19th century by Joseph Aspdin,.

Cement, like many inventions, is British.

Airplanes are powered by rolls royce engines. And Frank Whittle invented the jet engine. The Brits also invented the first commercial airliner.

The pharmaceutical industry was invented by Alexander Fleming when he discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic. For good measure Edward Jenner also invented the first vaccine.

Hotels? The biggest chain is Premier Inn.

US television is shite. It took Monty Python to bring them satire.

US "music" today is 90% non music, Rap, which uses rhyming, which the British invented with nursery rhymes from the mid 1600s onward. Over half of the 60 best-selling album in the UK are British artists.

I could go. Marshall amps. Vox guitar amps.

Coke Pepsi use what? Carbonated water invented by Joseph Priestley . And the first commercial soft drink, 50 years before those two, R. White's Lemonade

Mc Ds, the fast food industry via Fish and chips outlets existed 80 years before it did.

I could go on and on.

The yanks couldn't get beyond Earth without German rockets, and once in space couldn't get anywhere without the fuel cell invented by Francis Thomas Bacon

Admittedly, not using Google, Microsoft or NetFlix would be tricky but for the rest there's not much that I would actively buy. I don't drink Coke, Pepsi or Starbucks and don't eat McDonalds, batteries maybe...

Cement, like many inventions, is British.

Were the Romans British?

@ChessorBuckaroo yes we import cement from USA and all the other things I listed.

I should add Wikipedia to that list. It's American.

Did you access Wikipedia via google?

That list by @RobinEllacotStrike was bleedin silly. At least do some research before posting.

Influence of Monty Python on US television

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MontyPython#Culturalinfluenceandlegacy

No Simons Fuller and Cowell no Idol, X Factor, Got talent. No Steven Knight no Millionaire. No Strictly no Dancing with the stars. And on and on.

The battery was invented by Volta, and Sony via Akira Yoshino developed the one we use in our devices.

The computer? Charles Babagge. First programmer? Ada Lovelace. The pioneer of computer science? Alan Turing. And Sir Jonathan Ive was also the chief design officer at Apple.

Disney, use cartoons, with the cartoon first appearing in Punch. Walt also read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a boy and said: "No story in English literature has intrigued me more than Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It fascinated me the first time I read it as a schoolboy." Tenniel (chief cartoonist at Punch, also provided the illustrations for Alice). _

Ben and Jerry's? FFS. Ice cream has been here since the Victorian era. The Italians have been the masters of it.

Nike is a latecomer (1970s). Adidas and Puma are from the 1940s, while Slazenger (British sports brand from the 1880s) has the longest-running sporting sponsorship in the world, thanks to its association with the Wimbledon, the oldest tennis tournament in the world._

I will give some actual stuff that was invented in america.

The call and response that Africans in america used came from the Scots hymn singing known as lining out – where one person sang a solo (a precentor) and others followed. Later Africans in america, such as Chuck Berry and Little Richard, they in turn would influence musicians here, with their music birthing The Beatles, The Rolling stones etc._

Your list was crap though.

Google, yes.
Apple, yes.
Microsoft, yes.

That's about it though. And as I said without Charles Babbage (first programmable computer) and Ada Lovelace (first progammer) there is no Apple, or Google.

There is nothing in the rest of your list.

Batteries (invented by Volta), panasonic (Japanese brand, and it was the Japanese who commercialised the battery).

I will give a good list.

Tomato ketchup
american cheese (albeit it is modified Cheddar)
Yellow mustard
Kelloggs cereals
Spielberg
Walt Disney (though as I said above, he was heavily influenced by Alice whose illustrator was John Tenniel, the cartoonist for Punch)
Tim Burton (heavily influenced by the macabre of Roald Dahl, a childhood hero)

Coca Cola I will concede is another, but again, without Joseph Priestley inventing carbonated water there is no Cola, and R.Whites had been making various other flavours before Coke existed.

What do we export to the US?

@ChessorBuckaroo you seem a bit confused.

I'm talking about US products & brands imported into UK.

You seem to be wanting to boycott US products Ben & Jerry's doesn't count because the USA didn't invent ice cream.

🙄🤣. Ok then.

Enjoy your non-boycott.

@Courgetteandbeans yes it will be tricky.

But if boycotts were easy there wouldn't be much point in them would there?

Enjoy your non- boycott.

Ben and Jerry's is owed by Unilever, a British company

This proposed boycott is going well 😂

@Househunter2025 so it was but it still operates as an independent company out of Vermont. Vermont in USA.

@ChessorBuckaroo's USA owned favourite Wikipedia says:

"Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings Inc., trading and commonly known as Ben & Jerry's, is an American company that manufactures ice cream, frozen yogurt, and sorbet. Founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont, the company went from a single ice cream parlor to a multinational brand over the course of a few decades. The company was sold in 2000 to the multinational conglomerate Unilever but operates as an independent subsidiary. Its present-day headquarters is in South Burlington, Vermont, with its factory in Waterbury, Vermont."

But by all means exclude it from your non-boycott of USA products.

I'm boycotting nothing. The issue was your list was trivial.

Replacing brands is piss easy.

Nike? FFS a newcomer in comparison to Slazenger (linked above), and the two German brands Adidas and Puma.

More on Disney, "Alice in Wonderland was made under the personal supervision of Walt Disney, and he took special care when animating British fantasy. He called them his "English Cycle".

As well as the aforementioned Alice in Wonderland (the story (with Tenniel's illustrations) that influenced him most), the cycle also included Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Mary Poppins, Robin Hood, The One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Winnie the Pooh, Treasure Island, and The Sword in the Stone.

Everyone is frantically looking up US companies on Google 😁

@ChessorBuckaroo your points are pointless

Primarily machinery, chemicals and transport equipment

Seems to be here in Canada. First day in-office (stereotypically, snowfall meant working from home yesterday) after the weekend's nonsense and I don't think I have a single colleague who isn't taking part to some extent. Shopkeepers have commented too.

Not an absolute boycott, but making a far greater effort to buy Canadian and avoid US products wherever possible. The Government is also looking at ways to reduce dependence on US goods and services.

We’re doing the same as are friends and neighbours. Quality of Canadian food is so much better than US.

😂

No, your trivial list was pointless. Everything on it bar the computer hardware/software was disposable, ie. piss easy not to use.

US television? As Morrissey said on Jonanthan Ross, "it's for children".

Friends was utter garbage. So crap they stole the scene from Merry christmas Mr Bean (now that was a great show) when he had a turkey on his head.

But won't that just make Canada's trade deficit with the USA even bigger than it already is, and therefore just rile Trump with you even more?

The UK doesn't have a trade deficit with the USA so we aren't in the firing line.

Ice cream has been here since the Victorian era. The Italians have been the masters of it.

Another Roman thing, predating the Victorians by 2,000 years.

And more... Amazon, ordering at home.

Mail order is a British concept from the Victorian era, facilitated via two things, the invention of railways (by the British) to transport the goods, and the modern postal system (British invention) by Sir Rowland Hill

Pryce-Jones could only dream of the impact his entrepreneurial vision would have on the world when he was selling Welsh flannel to Queen Victoria and Florence Nightingale in the late 1800s. Jones is credited as being the pioneer of a global mail order industry now worth about £75bn. Forget the internet and delivery drivers, Pryce-Jones used the superhighway of the day—the railway and parcel post
—"The mail-order pioneer who started a billion-pound industry", BBC News, December 2020.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55244397

The scale of the trade deficit is being grossly exaggerated and I doubt it has anything to do with Donald's dick-waving. He goods up a new nonsense excuse for the tariffs each time he talks about them.

But yes, an increasing deficit could rile Trump up more - but we won't be blackmailed by threats to our sovereignty.

If the US economy starts to be hurt by this, then hopefully enough voters Will see who is to blame.

And that's a consequence when you treat your allies like this.

If you were Canadian and Trump spoke to the country like he did in his tweets (Sorry, Truths) how would you react?

Would you buy more American products just to appease him?