Mildly Infuriating

I was surprised too! I guess Canadians hold up to their reputation 🙂👍

And most of the media went right along with wording such as “tariffs on China” rather than than “tariffs on US buyers”

Ew......I don't even want to know what cheeto based sexual diseases you'd get from fucking trump.....

Solid boundaries, clearly communicated. Giving the customer a choice without hurting their own bottom line. I agree. Excellent handling of the situation.

Both of them?

This is 100% because of Trump's flip flop ways. Fuck this guy and his MAGA cult.

There's only one thing businesses hate more than tariffs and that's uncertainty. They would be happier with the tariffs being definite, than this maybe existing and maybe not existing on a almost daily basis.

Because even if he gets rid of the tariffs, he'll try this again in a few weeks once he's forgotten about all of the push back and has randomly decided that Canada is still shipping drugs into the US. Because fentanyl can't be made in the US, everyone knows that.

This is what allowed Temu and Alibaba and Wish and the like to happen (their business model was to send every single product as a single package worth under 800$, leading to enormous shipping times and waste etc., but they don't have to pay import taxes).

damn!

And it's not even this government's first big unambiguous fuck you to the common people.

Me too. I'm on the right side of the border and would happily order from this company if they sell something I need.

Yeah, my car shit the bed right before the election and I had to get a new one.

Looking back, I’m glad I got it when I did. It was manufactured in Mexico, like most cars in America. If my old car had lasted 6 more months, I might have ended up paying 25% more for what I’m driving now.

In November, the boyfriend and I went ahead and pulled the trigger on replacing both of our aging laptops (even though it was a bit earlier than I'd like- I just play a lot of Stardew Valley, I don't really need anything fancy).

Thank goodness for that. I'm sad other people won't have been as fortunate.

Hmmm… sounds like I need to be spending more time at the border. Question: do we get to choose who we snuggle with or is it like a first come first served situation

That's a lot of snuggling

I hope they all fucking starve. I mean it won't happen but I can dream.

It writes itself? Is that why it has a spelling error?

Because Trump thinks he's Putin and wants to annex Canada.

My theory is that they want to control the North-West Passage, which due to climate change will become a high traffic trade route. Something currently dominated by Panama (which he also wants). So they're putting pressure on Canada now.

Greenland is in a similar situation but I think there may also be oil and such there as well.

Any time an eligible item crosses the US / Canada border, a 25% tariff is applied. This is how the US does it, so this is what the Canadian government is copying.

This is terrible for auto manufacturing, where various parts cross the border multiple times between raw materials, loose parts, assembled parts and assembled vehicle. Every time those parts or materials cross either border, it gets tariffed 25%.

I believe if your item comes from the US, lands in another country, gets re-labeled and then enters Canada, it won't be tariffed, but don't quote me on that.