Trump is awesome.
I don’t really want Canada to lower their tariffs on dairy. I think every country should try to be self sufficient on the basics, food being the most critical.
I would rather see tariffs raised in general on all countries.
“I don’t really want Canada to lower their tariffs on dairy. I think every country should try to be self sufficient on the basics, food being the most critical.”
And why shouldn’t we be self-sufficient on toilet paper? It’s just trees — they grow back.
“I think every country should try to be self sufficient on the basics, food being the most critical.”
If you really want nations to prevent famines, what we really need is to encourage larger inventories of non-perishable food. Instead we TAX those inventories as assets!
Some of these trade figures are deceptive because they don't account for the disproportionate influence on these numbers from imports that work to our advantage. For example, the U.S. had about a $17 billion trade deficit with Canada in 2017. But crude oil represents a huge part of U.S. imports from Canada. Eliminate these oil imports, and the U.S. would have a trade SURPLUS with Canada.
The canadian people would benefit the most
“every country should try to be self sufficient on the basics”
I agree that self-sufficiency should be in the equation.
Reciprocity is the key to fairness equilibrium. The entire trade issue will equalize over time.
We currently havea $6.80 tariff on goats. To what level would you think it should be raised?