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Originally Posted by GGG
The other piece of it is emissions should go with the end user of the product. Canada's emissions from exported oil shouldn't be Canada's and China's emissions from exporting steal and clothes to Canada should be our emissions.
This way each country could tax imports to make carbon nuetral competition and allow exports to countries without a carbon policy not to be penalized.
Essentially we should put carbon duties on all imported fruit, clothes, food, furniture etc, and give tax breaks to our exporters.
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Except that the trade would kill us economically. Also china would just ramp up their current very protectionist trade laws and use it to shuffle off their carbon.
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