{"id":230454,"date":"2025-02-02T22:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T22:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/trade-war-heats-up-after-trump-orders-tariffs-and-canada-retaliates\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T22:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T22:41:11","slug":"trade-war-heats-up-after-trump-orders-tariffs-and-canada-retaliates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/trade-war-heats-up-after-trump-orders-tariffs-and-canada-retaliates\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade War Heats Up After Trump Orders Tariffs and Canada Retaliates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/02\/multimedia\/02tariffs-reax-01-tqhf\/02tariffs-reax-01-tqhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Trade War Heats Up After Trump Orders Tariffs and Canada Retaliates\" title=\"Trade War Heats Up After Trump Orders Tariffs and Canada Retaliates\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The United States and its biggest trading partners were hurtling on Sunday into a new era of protectionism as Canada, Mexico and China said they would adopt countermeasures<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>against new tariffs levied by President Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">From honey to tomatoes, and from clothes to toilet bowls, a wide range of American goods that cross the border into Canada worth more than $100 billion will soon be hit with a 25-perent tariffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe don\u2019t want to be here,\u201d Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a somber televised address from Ottawa on Saturday night in which he spoke of the deep bonds between the neighbors. \u201cWe didn\u2019t ask for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Sunday, China said it would \u201ctake corresponding countermeasures to firmly safeguard its rights and interests.\u201d It also said it would take legal action at the World Trade Organization.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Claudiashein\/status\/1886140972733772200\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a video<\/a> released on Sunday, President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico said that she would unveil the first steps of her government\u2019s so-called Plan B plan on Monday if an agreement with the United States could not be reached. Ms. Sheinbaum earlier warned of retaliatory \u201ctariff and nontariff measures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The policy announced by Mr. Trump on Saturday hit Canada and Mexico with tariffs of 25 percent on all goods, with a carve-out for Canadian energy and oil exports. Those are to be taxed at 10 percent. He also placed a 10-percent tariff on Chinese goods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He also ordered an end to the ability of Americans to buy up to $800 of goods per day from each country without paying tariffs. It was a blow to the giant businesses that online companies like Temu and Shein have built by shipping directly from factories in China to American homes, bypassing American retailers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The levies are to go into effect just after midnight on Tuesday, and will be added on top of existing tariffs. The removal of duty-free treatment for small shipments from all three countries means that their buyers will have to start paying not only the new tariffs but all the other many tariffs that have accumulated over the years on clothing and other consumer goods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump defended the tariffs on Sunday, while acknowledging that they could have repercussions. \u201cWill there be some pain? Yes, maybe (and maybe not!),\u201d he said in an early-morning social media post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has said that the tariffs are intended to reduce the flow of the deadly opioid fentanyl over the border, as well as of migrants. (The traffic of both people and illegal drugs from Canada is, however, very small.) If there is economic pain, he suggested, it will be worth it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Mr. Trump imposed tariffs on China during his first term in the White House, some studies found that part of the cost was passed on to American consumers. Suppliers in China also cut their prices in many cases to offset part of the cost of the tariffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Most Republicans in Congress have stayed silent or praised Mr. Trump\u2019s tariffs, even as their constituents express anxiety about rising prices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, the rare Republican who regularly criticizes the president, was once again an exception. \u201cTariffs are simply taxes,\u201d he said on social media. \u201cConservatives once united against new taxes. Taxing trade will mean less trade and higher prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If other Republicans shared Mr. Paul\u2019s belief that the economy may take a hit, they kept it to themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOhio is open for business and will roll out the red carpet for any company manufacturing in America!\u201d Senator Bernie Moreno, Republican of Ohio, wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Party leaders, too, were falling into line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI support what the president\u2019s doing,\u201d the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, John Barrasso of Wyoming, said Sunday on Fox News. \u201cWe need to get rid of the fentanyl. We need to tell China as well as Mexico as well as Canada to get the fentanyl out of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Democrats spent the weekend hammering the message that Mr. Trump was responsible for making life in America more expensive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIn one reckless move,\u201d said Representative Gabe Vasquez, Democrat of New Mexico, \u201cthe president just raised the price you pay for gas, the truck you drive to work, a computer for your small business and everything at the grocery store, from avocados to tequila.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was uncertain how much success China might find at the World Trade Organization, which has lost much of its ability to handle such legal challenges since the United States began blocking the appointment of judges to it in Mr. Trump\u2019s first term. The W.T.O.\u2019s appellate body lost judges as their terms expired, and has not been able to form a quorum to hear cases since the end of 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The organization can still form panels to compile reports on the merits of cases, but reports can no longer go to the appellate body for a legally binding decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Mr. Trump imposed tariffs on Chinese goods during his first term, China responded each time with tariffs on American exports, but<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>because China sells far more to the United States than it buys, it quickly ran out of goods to put tariffs on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last month, American law enforcement officials called for an end to the duty-free shipments from China, which they blamed for allowing considerable quantities of fentanyl and related supplies into the United States because the shipments receive little or no inspection by customs agents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a statement on Sunday, China\u2019s Ministry of Commerce urged the United States to \u201cview and handle its fentanyl and other issues in an objective and rational manner, rather than threatening other countries with tariffs.\u201d The Foreign Ministry defended China\u2019s record on the issue, saying it had led the world when it imposed stringent regulations on fentanyl-related substances in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The true cause of the epidemic of fentanyl deaths in the United States, China has argued, is an American failure to curb drug addiction, not the large-scale production or export by China of chemicals used mainly by illegal labs in Mexico to make the drug.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Sheinbaum, the Mexican president, took a similar stance on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf they want to act,\u201d she said, \u201cthey should not set their sights on Mexico, but on their own country, where they have done nothing to stop the illegal sale of this and other drugs,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Sheinbaum said she was still awaiting Mr. Trump\u2019s response to her offer to establish a working group of security and health officials from both countries to tackle the fentanyl problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In announcing the new Canadian tariffs on Saturday, Mr. Trudeau addressed Americans directly, saying that the U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods would harm them, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is a choice that, yes, will harm Canadians, but beyond that, it will have real consequences for you, the American people,\u201d he said. \u201cAs I have consistently said: Tariffs against Canada will put your jobs at risk, potentially shutting down American auto assembly plants and other manufacturing facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Canadian provinces of Ontario and Nova Scotia announced that they would pull American, beer, wine and spirits from government-owned liquor stores. The Liquor Control Board of Ontario imports about 1 billion Canadian dollars \u2014 about $690 million \u2014 worth of U.S. products each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One Canadian province took a more targeted approach, singling out areas of the United States where support for Mr. Trump\u2019s policies has been especially strong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In British Columbia, the premier, David Eby, announced that the province would stop sales of alcohol produced in \u201cred states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Annie Karni<!-- --> contributed reporting from Washington, <!-- -->Ian Austen<!-- --> from Windsor, Ontario, and <!-- -->James Wagner<!-- --> from Mexico City,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/02\/world\/us-tariffs-canada-china-mexico.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States and its biggest trading partners were hurtling on Sunday into a new era of protectionism as Canada, Mexico and China said they would adopt countermeasures against new tariffs levied by President Trump. 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