About Them Tariffs

Here's a list I found on the internet about the tariffs that Canada assigned to our goods BEFORE Justin Castro got in the pissing contest with The Orange One.

238%  on poultry products
100%  on fish products
100+%  on tobacco products
 30%  on clothing
  20%  on lumber
 163%  on eggs
 160%  on barley
  94%  on wheat
 265%  on sugar
 295%  on peanut butter
 150%  on rice
 100%  on vegetables
  25%  on various metal products
  30%  on wool
  30%  on cocoa

I find this fascinating. 

Mostly because there are, at least, three agreements between the US and Canada that eliminated those tariffs.  Two of them include Mexico.

It's also fascinating to watch the reaction to the US imposing tariffs on Canada.

They seem to think that the US will be crippled without Canadian goods.  Specifically they cite the integration of the auto-makers.

I'd like to point out that we traded with Canada when they were fucking us on our goods with those tariffs.

I also note that since they dropped the 100% tariff on vegetables, they've become our biggest customer for them.

I'm trying to find historical produce prices and coming up with bupkiss, but I suspect that Canada benefited more from the tariff drops than the US; and both nations did benefit.

And what they need to do to get that punitive 25% tariff dropped is to simply not allow people from outside of Canada to transit to the US.  They keep saying it's "only" 20,000 people compared to 20,000,000 from Mexico.

That almost seems reasonable until you realize that it took fewer than 20 people to pull off 9/11.