USMCA ! Trudeau "It's a good day for Canada".

United States Mexico Canada Agreement

I, for one, am extremely happy a deal was reached to replace NAFTA with something more fair to all.

 

NAFTA allowed Mexico and Canada to import items that were of a lower tariff to their own country and then sell it to a US
buyer at a lower tariff than if it was to come directly from the originating country.

That is one of the major problems Trump had with Canada. Canada has a low tariff on steel from China, we have a low
tariff on steel from Canada, but because of the high tariff China has on our steel, the US has very high tariff on steel from China.
( China has an extremely high tariff on rice, soybeans, plastics, textiles. etc. from the US, all things the Chinese government guaranteed a minimum price to it's own producers)

So Canadian middle men were buying the steel from China and then selling it to US buyers.
That allowed 'dumping' into our economy at our expense when the high tariff was set with China because of the
high tariffs China has on most US exports.

And it was played out with a lot more products than steel. But because of the lower volume of the other products it
did not constitute 'dumping' even though it still hurt our economy.

 

It was outdated and did need revisions for the ever changing economy. However the way Trump tried to bully us into submission was uncalled for. He attacked all his allies and cozied up to the enemies. That’s a dictator in the making

 

Not a dictator! He doesn't control us and we can remove him from office. Our constitution puts the power in congress, not the president. A president can't
become a dictator. We'd just remove him, or invalidate his authority.

Pussycat,
1) Autos must be 75% American as opposed to the NAFTA 62%. At a minimum pay to the auto worker of $16 an hour. That's better for us.
2) You're right about the steel tariffs, but they are now not subject to our higher tariffs. A good thing for Mexico and Canada, but only for
60 days. It got the whole thing back into the focus of both our leaders.
3) The high dairy tariffs Canada subjected the US to are now relaxed. Opening the trade on dairy to be more equal.
4) The openness now to remedy any disparities after 6 years instead of the old NAFTA provision to just terminate the agreement if
something was considered unfixable. This was one of the major sticking points that Mexico and Canada had with NAFTA.
5) A higher dollar level of duty-free purchases. Mexico and Canada both were extremely low- Mexico was $50, now $100.
Canada was $20 and is now $150. The US exemption is $100.

 

I can understand your frustration. We finally have a president since Reagan that has some balls to stand up for us.
It's understandable that all other countries are upset because they aren't getting their way unfettered anymore.

 

Well see you have a Republican senate and congress that concede to what he wants. He could also refuse the right to leave office and that is in the American constitution. Ie if a war started and he felt he was the best to lead it he can stay in power as long as he wants. It is possible so yes, by all definitions he is a dictator in a democracy styled costume.

Also Canadian dairy is leaps and bounds higher quality then the US dairy market and now we are being forced to sell it in our stores, however the joke is on the US now because us Canadians won’t buy it to support our farmers.

 

If this doesn’t say dictator in the making then I give up lol

 

I'm not sure why you didn't give the same title to Obama. He had 16 times the amount of executive orders ( some were even illegal-
but it took too long in congress as no democrat would vote for the repeal), of any president before him.

 

Whose 'we' is this, may I ask ?

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Trump's been okay for Canada, it seems to me - Keystone for starters.

 

You and a whole bunch of others in the world liked Obama, especially as you put it, a "benevolent dictator",
because he all but gave away our country. Him and his cronies like Pelosi ,Hillary and all the Hollywood " I hate anything righteous" crowd,
continually are trying to give away our sovereignty.

Trump has been good for the USA and the rest of the world is crying "FOUL!" because they are getting cut off of the American titty.
A weaning process is always painful to those who have been acting like spoiled brats.

But Pussycat, please let us not allow this to become a rant filled thread. I value your opinions, whether they align with mine or not.

I agree that Trump isn't a great president. But he at least is the first one since Reagan that has put the USA first in his policies.
Our jobs and economy are doing fine under his direction. And NO, it is NOT because of a road laid down by Obama. It is because
Trump immediately trashed the majority of Obama's executive orders, which were doing nothing but increasing the size of government
and the costs therein.

 

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Have no idea who or what the Reform party is. Care to enlighten me?