Ottawa releases full list of retaliatory targets. See what’s on the list and follow live updates here.
Ottawa releases full list of retaliatory targets. See what’s on the list and follow live updates here.
Canada and the United States have ordered duelling tariffs as a burgeoning trade war between the two longtime allies began. Here are the latest updates.
The Canadian government has released a comprehensive list of American goods that will be tariffed.
The list includes cheeses, meats, milk, fruits, vegetables, coffee, spices, chocolates, pastas, fruit juices, beer, wine, liqueurs, tobacco, perfumes, beauty products, kitchenware, car parts, lumber, toilet paper, clothing and household items.
Primary source, regular updates as well: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/02/list-of-products-from-the-united-states-subject-to-25-per-cent-tariffs-effective-february-4-2025.html
These are almost all small consumer goods. Where are the tariffs on big-ticket industrial goods and services? On Teslas? On datacenters and cloud computing services (Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, M$FT Azure, Oracle Cloud)? Hit American BigCorps where it hurts. Make the execs and shareholders feel the pain.
It remains to be seen what the much bigger tarifs package is gonna cover:
_Tuesday’s tariffs are the first of two phases announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday, said to total $30 billion in U.S. goods. A further round of tariffs on a wider list of American products, valued at $125 billion, is expected to come into effect 21 days later, following a public comment period.
This second list will be made available in the coming days, and will include passenger vehicles, trucks and buses, recreational vehicles and boats, steel and aluminum products, aerospace products, and more, according to the finance department. _
Taxing US meat and other food stuffs is not retaliation, it’s a public health benefit!
C’mon, won’t you think of the children working and dying in meat processing plants. They need those jobs!
This is great, US businesses will suffer before the US government starts feeling the pain of less tax revenue from those businesses.
Ultimately the everyday citizens will feel the biggest pinch in higher prices, fewer jobs, and shortages, and the fed will just raise taxes to make up the shortfall, further fucking the rest of us over. Never do these policies hamper the top of the food chain, despite them playing with our livelihoods as political fodder.
Where is IT and technology?
The counter tariffs are supposed to be sanctions on the US not on Canada itself.
I can't find direct evidence at their federal level, but their British Columbia Premier did mention targeting US's 'red States' for their liquor stores. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-premier-david-eby-us-tariffs-1.7448307
Looking at the list, it does seem to be mostly agricultural goods and manufactured goods, which do mostly come from Trump-supporting areas.
Yeah, that list will pinch the people, but tech is calling the shots. Nobody that started this tariff war cares about that list.
Edit: that said, don't blame them. This whole shitpile never had to happen. Maybe poking the people is their way to bring awareness.
Very hard to put tariffs on that. They would need to be taxed, as no goods really cross the border with them.
If Canada nukes us I will understand, critical support for it TBH
Im willing to take one for the team. Nuke me daddy Canada!
In the short to medium term, this possibly decrease prices on these items in the US?