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

Oh please do tell us about the legal channels. Or even a couple of them.

He's coming for us.
Or Musk is.

Because of regulations over social media. And Musk hates Starmer - and as it seems Musk is running the US now, he's going to target the UK as well.

Agreed. I do!

I'll be fine but thanks for your concern.

😂 he's a chop.

I can only think he was going through the letters - B for Bertie, R for rabbit and when he got to S,...ah must be Spain.

I love the idea of big babies as a unit of measurement.

There are official channels to claim asylum in the UK. The majority chose not to tee them.

What are they, @Potsofpetals ?

If I wished to escape Afghanistan, Sudan or Congo how would I go about that, please?

Quick, Mumsnet is hosted on AWS, Amazon Web services, let's all cancel Mumsnet ....<crickets>

Their advertisers wouldn't like that.

But it is for the Americans to invest in and protect their own borders. Why would he expect a foreign country to protect his country’s border? Like the stupid wall idea that he expected Mexico to pay for. Let him and his billionaire tech bros pay for it.

Well stop buying on Amazon -I’m not sure what rate of tax they pay in California but stop using Amazon, Netflix,Fb if you want to affect revenue in the US

You said they were criminals for entering the country. Which is not the case. Yes disappearing is a criminal offence but you did not say that. You further went on to say that they should be exterminated... A statement that has caused your post to be deleted.

You are now asserting that the majority of people do not use legal channels.. I would like to see your sources for that claim.

Good luck finding some US manufactured goods to boycott. Almost everything seems to be made in China these days, which is what Trump's policy is really about. Either way, the US isn't our enemy, so I am not in favour of escalating a trade war with them by supporting boycotts of their goods at national level.

It would be interesting if America were to impose tariffs on most of the rest of the world and these tariffs were reciprocated, but nobody imposed tariffs on anyone else. Surely, over the course of a few years, global trade would recover and reshape itself, just cutting America out? 🤔

I can't think of anything made in America that I'd be buying anyway, so it doesn't make much difference to me.

I do think it's going to make people wary of developing trade relationships with the US - nothing makes you seem like a unreliable trade partner if you destroy trade agreements and impose tariffs when you have been trading successfully for years.

America used to be isolationist so I guess they can cope if they have to.

Is Canada our friend?
A Commonwealth country.
Helped us out massively in WW2.

(Just like the US did as well)

Fb, Disney+, Amazon, Google etc etc etc you are contributing to the billions tax paid from the multibillion these companies make from us mugs.

In fact, maybe that's what he's wanting in the end, protectionism.

You have to physically be in the uk to claim asylum. You can’t claim it from outside the uk. One of the biggest problems is the Uk is way too slow at hearing cases to determine whether someone has the right to be in the country.

I now want the police to start using it as standard.

How many babies is 2300kg?

Californian wine. Biggest exporter markets are Canada and the UK. Buy European, South American, Australian, New Zealand. South African or Canadian etc

You present yourself to a border officer at an official point of entry so you can be processed and screened properly. It really isn’t hard.

Dover beach by a dinghy is not an official point of entry.

I live in hope of there being a ‘gotcha’ moment when it all falls down for that narcissistic man baby and they have to admit they were wrong. But sadly I don’t think that will happen.