Late Saturday, Canada, Mexico, and China responded to Trump’s executive order imposing tariffs over their alleged failure to curb the fentanyl crisis. Just hours after the order was signed and set for implementation on Tuesday, all three nations announced strong retaliatory measures.
In a 20-minute press conference, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed anger over the tariffs, revealing he had been coordinating with Mexico’s president to push back. He admitted he hadn’t spoken to Trump since the inauguration. He went on to announce that Canada would impose a 25% tariff on beer, bourbon, wine, fruit, vegetables, perfume, clothing, and shoes—totaling $155 billion in U.S. goods over 30 days.
Trudeau also appealed directly to Americans, while several Canadian provinces threatened to remove U.S. alcohol from stores and double fees for American commercial vehicles crossing into Canada
You can watch the full press conference here:
Mexico also announced its response, threatening new, but unspecific sanctions.
The New York Post quoted Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo:
“If the United States government and its agencies wanted to address the serious consumption of fentanyl in their country, they could, for example, combat the sale of narcotics on the streets of their main cities, which they do not do, and the money laundering generated by this illegal activity that has done so much harm to their population,”
Sheinbaum also stated that she had instructed her economy minister “to implement Plan B,” which includes “tariff and non-tariff measures,” though she did not specify what those measures would entail.
“To this end, I propose to President Trump that we establish a working group with our best public health and security teams. Problems are not resolved by imposing tariffs, but by talking and dialoguing, as we did in recent weeks with your State Department to address the phenomenon of migration; in our case, with respect for human rights,” Sheinbaum said.
Meanwhile, China, while more reserved in its response, threatened legal action. According to the New York Post, China announced that it will file a complaint with the World Trade Organization and take “corresponding countermeasures to resolutely safeguard our own rights and interests.”
“China is strongly dissatisfied and firmly opposes this,” Beijing’s commerce ministry said in a statement.
President Donald Trump has responded to the criticism via Truth Social.
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Canada and Mexico will fight back!
It’ll be like a couple of DEI female lesbian boxers beating their fists against Muhammed Ali’s leg.
Nice analogy!
China (and its possible legal action) can’t be dismissed so lightly.
Ohhhh! Legal action! That’s SO scary!
Chy-na
Afraid they’ll loose another bioweapon?
Why not ask LI contributor Captain James Nault (USN, Retired) if he thinks that China is a hollow threat?
Answer the question, troll.
I have a better idea. Why don’t you detail for the rest of us how China’s threat to “file a complaint” with the WTO is not to be dismissed lightly?
And make sure you keep it limited to economic and financial reasons, not military reasons.
To steves59:
The first 40 seconds the following video (counting from the provided timestamp) may interest you:
https://youtu.be/zwdTG0xxlf8?t=663 .
Monmouth:
“Trump’s Weakness Spells Disaster?” Scott Ritter?
C’mon man.
To steves59:
You didn’t listen to those 40 seconds, did you? The subject of that portion wasn’t Trump’s weakness.
Also, the speaker wasn’t Scott Ritter.
Moonmouth: I LOL at you following a Scott Ritter YouTube channel. I did indeed listen to what Wilkerson has to say and it’s nothing new: the Chinese and their ilk are sick of our “empire” and will do anything they can to stop us, and this will happen within the next 30 years or so.
Most of us here are well aware that the Chinese military threat is something indeed to worry about. This is nothing new.
Thanks to Obama and Biden, our ability to properly engage that threat has been severely weakened by their destruction of our warfighting capability, and by their gutting of our ability to cheaply produce plentiful fossil fuels.
The video isn’t the “sick burn” you think it is.
China stills owes America a lot of money, call in the debt.
America has put up with a lot of abuse from other countries ever since WW2, much of it financial. They are going to have a hard time adjusting to a new reality.
I used to think that Canada was far better then Mexico, with their import of large numbers of Muslims’ , that is no longer the case. We will need a wall on our northern border.
With Canada and Mexico talking to each other they can come to grips with paying half of the wall costs
China regularly violates the terms and conditions of WTO membership, yet hardly ever faces repercussions. The hypocrisy is glaring and should be pointed out at every opportunity.
Hypocrital, to be sure. But we can’t dismiss the possibility that China’s legal efforts might succeed.
You may like to take it up the ass, but America doesn’t have to.
To AF_Chief_Master_Sgt : To give a good impression to any fence-sitters who might come here, how about keeping it clean?
“But we can’t dismiss the possibility that China’s legal efforts might succeed.”
Concern troll is concerned. Duly noted.
“To give a good impression to any fence-sitters who might come here, how about keeping it clean?”
You really ARE JR in mufti, aren’t you?
I’m not into “impressions” thank you, and at this point in time, fence sitters need to shit or get off the pot.
“End your tariffs or we’ll stop stealing your technology and intellectual property! We mean it!”
JR is our token liberal being obnoxious in our conservative playground
Both leaders could just travel to DC or Mar a Lago for a face to face meeting. They would rather posture and drive their economies into the dirt. I have no idea what I am going to do without my Canadian perfume and rancid beer.
Um, no. Sparklesocks is putting a tariff on incoming US perfume and beer.
The list is interesting, It’s 50% sin/luxury tax. No one will be going hungry, or even getting sober.
The rest? Shoes? It is to laugh. There’s been no such thing as American shoes since they shuttered the factories in Lowell, Mass. Canada can continue to buy their shoes from China, just like we do.
I am 100% in agreement with the quote below. By NOT putting the demand end of this market in jail, we are the cause of the issue. Washington State is an open air drug dealing opium den of anarchy.
That doesn’t excuse other governments for their part in soft balling the flow of drugs and crime. Mexico for instance, we have stopped going to our favorite vacation destinations because a relative got roofied by the staff. Other nightmare stories of the staff poisoning guests and having the entire medical chain in line to ransom the patient for tens of thousands of dollars. On this note- TARIFF THE SNOT OUT OF THESE COMMIE – WARLORD RUN HELL HOLES!!!!!!!
—> “If the United States government and its agencies wanted to address the serious consumption of fentanyl in their country, they could, for example, combat the sale of narcotics on the streets of their main cities, which they do not do, and the money laundering generated by this illegal activity that has done so much harm to their population,”
Agreed
“they could, for example, combat the sale of narcotics on the streets of their main cities, which they do not do”
All that EVER accomplishes is to close markets to one cartel and open them to competitors. It’s no different than banning TikTok and making Zuckerberg richer
And notice the one thing Canada, Mexico, and China still didn’t do? They didn’t agree to attempt to cut back on the production and/or flow of illegal fentanyl through their countries. Guess the fentanyl trade into the United States is just too lucrative for Trudeau, Xi, and Sheinbaum to do anything about.
Canadian and Mexican leaders had a choice: They could stop fentanyl and illegal immigrants from streaming into our country.
Canadian and Mexican leaders chose this trade war…not Trump. There was another way.
Let’s not forget how loudly we’d been proclaiming (until just 13 days ago, when DJT took office) that the US hadn’t made any efforts to stop the influx of illegals and fentanyl, either.
This is just a silly what-aboutism. We aren’t discussing Biden’s failures here, but the refusal of Canada/Mexico to interdict illegals and drugs and choosing instead to continue to facilitate access.
I realize you are here only to criticize and denigrate Trump’s actions, but hey… do better.
I realize you are here only to criticize and denigrate Trump’s actions
You are being dishonest. I’ve stated repeatedly in these comment sections that I support the deportations.
JR is probably a DEI, never having to work hard to create anything of value ?
Moonmoth’s child leaders were in charge until January. Now the adults are in charge, and Moonmoth is having a conniption.
Actually, I voted for Trump, after defending him for years, in other forums. When I cast my vote, I must have missed the fine print on the ballot that said that my vote for DJT obligated me to praise every utterance that issues from his mouth.
Correction: “after defending him for years, in other forums, against the media’s incessant lies.”
So what’s your problem then?
This is precisely Trump making efforts to stop the influx of illegals and fentanyl.
For heaven’s sake, back up and discover the forest, why doncha.
China doesn’t respect IP law. Don’t care what WTO says. They have no teeth.
This needs to be read to better understand Canadian political malfeasance in the crisis: https://x.com/martianwyrdlord/status/1885902317196640471
More on Canadian political malfeasance from a Canadian:
https://x.com/jc_limitless/status/1886032503632183531
They can’t win
We’d be wise not to make such confident predictions. Together, Mexico, Canada, and China might indeed win if the pain to already-suffering US consumers (a possibility that DJT recognizes) costs him enough support.
If we do win this battle, China is likely to win something, too, in the form of even-greater influence in Mexico — where China’s involvement is already plenty alarming
Canadian goods exports and 63% of Canadian goods imports, but only 18% of total US goods exports and 14% of US goods imports.
Do go on…..
“Do go on … “
I’ve already done so. I mentioned China’s reactions and its growing influence in Mexico.
We have seen how China operates all over the world, debt traps effectively enslaving people and whole countries.
You misspelled ‘gay North Dakota…’
Oh, noes! Mexico might become fractionally more hostile!
China’s involved, too, and not only in Mexico. Remember Panama.
Oh noes! China, who has been planning to attack the US for decades, might become marginally more hostile!
Please. Chinese would be eating shit balls and rice if it weren’t for the US influx of money buying their slave labor crap.
The US allowed them to have control of manufacturing and we have been paying the price with weak presidents in charge.
You MAY be correct. IMO, if sustained, there is zero chance these tariffs will not cause the inflation rate to rise a bit, there to be fewer interest rate cuts by the Fed and a poorer stock market. The reason that I used “may” is that I think that Canada and Mexico would eventually cave and Trump will get what he wants.
The Fed had already signaled fewer rate.cuts prior to tariffs being imposed. All the economic data the BLS bureaucracy and others carefully hid in constant revisions after a positive monthly headline is now being displayed. This was part of the plan. Defer the reckoning then blame Trump when it arrives.
Who is this “we” you’re referring to?
I don’t know but if all Mexico has to do is stop importing Chinese precursors, making fentanyl on their soil and cracking down of trafficking plus put a halt to the illegal caravans of people marching to invade us the answer is pretty easy to stop the tariffs. As for Canada, stop the manufacture of fentanyl and crack down on tourism visa’s being exploited by illegal aliens. Easy peasey.
I seriously doubt that Americans will find the new prices on Corona beer and maple syrup enough to make any impact on their household budgets; instead, they’ll choose to avoid Canadian and Mexican imports
ALL TOGETHER..
Perhaps there are a few products our hostile neighbors make that no one else does, but that situation won’t be for long.
Americans won’t pay the tariffs because WE WILL NOT BUY YOUR PRODUCTS. Canada and Mexico don’t have the options that we do; they cannot produce all their needs internally and WILL need to continue trading with America, even after they impose retaliatory tariffs..
I am sorry about what the tariffs will do to the price of Mexican Coke.
Not sure anyone will really miss Corona™ beer in the first place. There’s a reason why they encourage people to put a lime wedge into the bottle. It’s to cover the skunky taste of the beer. Cause it ain’t shipped to the U.S. in refrigerated boxcars/trucks that’s for sure. And as for Canadian maple syrup? The stuff is so expensive now that few people can afford to buy the stuff. A price increase isn’t going to change that at all.
A local store has a large display of maple syrups, and most are not from Canada. No one will miss it.
New York, Vermont and Maine can fill the need for syrup. As for beer, I’m not going to miss Corona, Labatt’s or tequila for that matter. If Mexico gets real silly Trump can cut off their largest source of foreign currency, the remittances from the US by illegals.
I’ve got four microbrewers around me at last count. Who needs Canadian beer?
Tax the remittances at 95%.
Both Mexico and Canada will lose.
They need us more than we need them. Go pound sand and snow!
Have we already forgotten how confident some us were (ca. Feb-March 2022) that tariffs and sanctions would soon bring Putin to his knees?
Nobody was confident because the so-called ‘sanctions’ were laughably pathetic and weak. The EU continued to buy Russian oil and gas.
My, what selective memories you all have.
EU continued to buy Russian oil and gas.
Yes. And even more buy it now. Just as the people who made such confident predictions about the sanctions’ effectiveness were repeatedly warned.
The rest of the world doesn’t have to jump whenever the US commands. As DJT would say, we can learn that the easy way, or the hard way.
Didn’t take much to make Russia not the enemy of the world to the left did it
Whachu talkin about WIllis?
“Russian asset” is still the Democrats’ accusation of choice against real Republican threats.
Threats to the Dems, of course.
So why do we have to jump a theirs, or in Biden’s case, lie back and think of England while they pillaged America?
Without faulty Democrat “leadership,” America has the capacity to do what it needs and get what it needs.
Once we offset the maleducation and biased “news” of course….
No, because no one thinks sanctions will stop a dictator intent on war. It’s a stupid idea, trotted out to excuse doing nothing to actually stop aggressors. Then, days after the sanctions, all we hear is how the sanctions are hurting the innocent civilians and how sanctions drove Japan to attack the US, so the do-nothing option has to be abandoned, too.
“No one thinks sanctions will deter a dictator intent on war.”
Plenty of people in the West thought so ca. Feb-Mar 2022.
Only the stupid ones like Joe Biden and his advisors.
No, they didn’t. They supported sanctions so they could claim to be doing something while knowing they were doing nothing at all.
Who specifically is “plenty”?
Biden administration… inept
Don’t forget feckless and dangerous. All under the umbrella of the Biden Crime Syndicate.
That was based on false assumptions.
“That was based on false assumptions.”
Obviously. But that doesn’t change the fact that many in the West were indeed supremely confident that the sanctions would bring Putin to his knees.
Again, only stupid ones. Sanctions don’t work on dictators because they don’t punish the dictator, they punish the citizens. If the dictator doesn’t care about his citizens and the citizens have no way to influence the dictator then it has no effect.
Only the stupid ones.
Which doesn’t change the fact that “the stupid ones” amounted to a lot of people.
Moonmoth. Milquetoasts pedantic twin.
Your ad hominem attack is noted. As is your earlier, obscene insult about my supposed sexual orientation.
Moonmoth, you apparently don’t get out of the basement much. My reference to taking it in the ass is not a reference to your sexuality (but if true, there’s nothing wrong with it because that’s your business) it is a reference to being screwed rectally by other countries and our refusal to let that happen.
It was the same “many in the west” who voted for Biden and Kammy. Again, what’s your point?
No, there was never any strength behind those sanctions, that was Dementia Joe’s show and he’s a weakass pedophile.
Sending audio gear to the Caribbean country of destination imposes 47% tariff on imports
When the production company sees something they want they take it and I bill the promoter. Then there are a corresponding number of garbage boxes approximating the number and weight that went into said nation, for me to dispose of on the expeditors ramps returning to USA
What?! Doesn’t Trudeau know that tarif will only hurt Canadians!
(OK, he likely doesn’t care, but if tariffs imposed by the US will be unpopular in the US, why doesn’t he just wait for the political costs to force Trump to back down? Maybe because he doesn’t think there will be a political cost?)
It’s the proverbial “rolled up sock in his pants” for Trudeau.
We can pretty easily replace both Canadian and Mexican goods exported to the USA. Energy in the Northeast is a bit tricky but the blame for any short term pain is on the State leadership (and the voters who supported them) for refusing to adopt more pro energy independence and production policies v importing from a foreign Nation. China is bit tricker but China’s economy will collapse without the US consumer market.
Moving manufacturing back to the USA is the real goal. That brings short/intermediate term commercial construction jobs then long term manufacturing jobs.
While VT maple syrup may easily replace Canadian, the 10% tariff on oil can’t be escaped entirely, or at all. If the US does not buy Canadian oil, that oil will be sold elswhere on the world market and the world price may stay about the same, as the US will still have to get the oil elsewhere. However, the transport costs may be much higher and possibly the processing costs as well. (“Drill Baby Drill” is a multi-year process.)
As you stated oil is a world market. We can simply withhold a equivalent amount for domestic use v selling that same amount abroad.
Another point is that the refineries capable of turning Canadian oil, heavy, into usable fuel are primarily located in the USA. The Canadians can’t just sell it anywhere to anyone b/c not many other Nations have the refineries capable of easily cracking it that the US purposely built to refine it.
refineries capable of turning Canadian oil
That very important point is almost universally overlooked.
Most of the oil the US buys is for resale. If we up our production it is not an issue.
All oil is priced on the world market. Either West Texas Intermediate or Brent Crude. One nation doesn’t set the price. The US can stop importing Canadian crude and keep the difference from what we export plus drill our own. Canada has far more to lose on that front than we do.
This is also a good opportunity to point out that Canada already has truly LUDICROUS tariffs on a lot of US goods, particularly food.
They have a 270% tariff on milk, 245% on cheese, and 298% on butter, all since the 1970s.
The tariffs on dairy exist because Canada is grimly determined to financially support their uneconomic dairy farming segment.
Clearly they feel that uber-expensive Canadian milk and butter are the right thing to do politically
Friend of mine has a dairy farm just across the border in Quebec. He has a government imposed quota for milk and everything over that gets dumped in the gutter. One reason their milk, cream and cheese prices are so high.
The reports I have found about this try to fool people by pointing out that those tariff levels apply only when relevant import quotas have ben exceeded. This is nonsense because those tariff level guarantee that the relevant import quotas will not be exceeded. These are import quotas disguised as tariffs.
Oh no Canada would be dumping their ag products on the US causing US farmer out of business.
No more Uncle Sugar for Canada and Mexico. Weaning off of being stupid by the US will take time. Alex Jones thinks the Deep State will try to tank the economy and blame Trump.
It’s a given the Dem/liberal/insane wings will blame Trump for everything. Take a look at the last eight years. This is their playbook, and they’re stuck with it. I only hope the “average” citizen understands why Trump is taking these actions. With “low information” voters, that understanding is not guaranteed.
Just to reinforce the point that you made in your last line: the mid-terms are < 2 years away, and the party in power tends to lose congressional seats. If the Dems re-take the House, …
If pigs could fly…
It’s not going to work because the economy was ALREADY tanked under Biden. They already tried screaming about the price of eggs and even the normies laughed at them because they’ve been screaming the economy is JUST GREAT for months and now want to try and blame the inflation they denied existed on Trump.
“He went on to announce that Canada would impose a 25% tariff on beer, bourbon, wine, fruit, vegetables, perfume, clothing, and shoes—totaling $155 billion in U.S. goods over 30 days.”
Oh no! Retreat! Truly we can not survive without Canadian wine and perfume. I’ll get you next time, Gadget! I mean Trudeau!
Wrong direction. Incoming US goods.
Canada is one of the countries in the world with the most difficult climatic conditions for crop development
Seems to me the easiest thing for Canada and Mexico to do here is to police their borders right?
Instead they bitch and moan as if they are dealing with Jomentia and think international opinion is going to come to their aid