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Originally Posted by Slava
It was posted by Trump about an hour ago. I think the thing is, there's no clarity here. It could mean just reciprocal tariffs, could mean a separate tariff like he's announced for aluminum/steel, chips and cars. Or maybe it's something different, and we just have no idea.
Their whole tariff "program" is so uncertain now, that it's hard to know what actually happens. I do think that we're getting tariffs though, because he won't like looking weak time and time again on this issue, and Canada is low hanging fruit in this regard.
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I've been pretty solidly on the side of 'the Tariffs were a negotiating ploy' side and thus far it seems to me that its looking more and more likely to be the case.
If Drumpf drops the idea, maybe even if only for Canada, he's going to do it to try and appear magnanimous.
Trump! The Saviour of Canada!!
Its pretty unanimously understood that tariff wars are, especially with a valued neighbour, 'paste-eating-stupid' so this is clearly Trump's idea and eventually he'll either be talked out of it or shift his 'deal-making' into a different direction.
Its a negotiating tactic.
He's already delayed it twice. Maybe one more time before fully dropping it.