It’s an extreme claim. It’s false.
Here is a complete list of the tariffs Canada collects on US goods. |
Spin the wheel and see what number pops up. I ordered pair of Psvane WE101D tubes directly from Psvane just the other day, they state on website any tariff included in price, and the price was nice! Now I may get a big surprise when it reaches US.
Complete nonsense per Canadian tariffs in general, yes, they do protect some of their agricultural products, but then so does US. One of the big factors in the auto industry moving to Canada was lower labor costs, this sort of thing leads to trade deficits. Labor costs in general are the main driver of offshoring, pretending its unfair tariffs is disingenuous at best. Citing a few outliers as to high tariffs doesn't make it universally true. So much inductive reasoning these day vs deductive, get yourself inside the bell curve people. |
I live in Canada and buy stuff from the US all the time and have so for decades. According to the last Free trade agreement, that the current US admin is no longer honouring, there was no duty to personally import any US made good into Canada , only sales tax, and the reverse was true as well. The only exception was alcohol, and the high levies for that are provincial , with each province doing it’s own thing. I bought lots of audio gear from the US, never any duty, only sales tax. Trump may have a point in that on an industrial scale we may have duties for US dairy products. The reason for that is because dairy is about 30% cheeper in the US because the US government heavily subsidizes that industry. and the Canadian government much less so these help duties keep our dairy farms in business. US dairy is cheaper than the UK, Australia, and much of the EU as well . Looking at trade deficits when only accounting for goods no longer makes sense. One needs to look at services as well like Netflix or hydroelectric power which gives a bigger picture of what the economic scene is. |
