• ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    Not to mention the anti-American sentiment will drive down sales far further. It’s going to crush a lot of American exports.

  • Troy
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    9 days ago

    War sucks.

    It looks like 12% was applied on a bunch of other Canadian goods too, based on the actual details emerging.

    My business is immediately impacted, as we had cross-border customers under the existing trade agreements (NAFTA, and NAFTA2.0). Suddenly our US customers have to pay 12% more to use our products. I guess that is the point though, right?

    • MyBrainHurts
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      9 days ago

      From trump’s perspective, there basically shouldn’t be non-American firms selling to Americans.

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        9 days ago

        The corollary of which is no American firms selling to non-Americans.