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Leaving China aside, Mr. Trump’s justification for this economic assault on the neighbors makes no sense,
Mr. Trump sometimes sounds as if the US shouldn’t import anything at all, that America can be a perfectly closed economy making everything at home
The “Tariff Lobby,” headed by the Globalist, and always wrong, Wall Street Journal, is working hard to justify Countries like Canada, Mexico, China, and too many others to name, continue the decades long RIPOFF OF AMERICA, both with regard to TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS that are allowed to so freely flow into AMERICA,
Trump wrote Sunday morning on Truth Social We allow them to take lumber
Last month, Trump said of Canada specifically Today's tariff announcement is necessary to hold China, Mexico, and Canada accountable for their promises to halt the flood of poisonous drugs into the United States."
The White House defended the move in a statement on X, saying Trade and tariff wars have no winners,
a Chinese government spokesperson said The imposition of tariffs is unprecedented, won’t solve these problems and will only raise prices for American families and upend supply chains,
the chamber’s John Murphy told CNN If the president is going abuse this power to bully and coerce our allies, Congress should take this authority back,
Coons said in a statement He’s using American workers as pawns in his petty political games. If a president promised that they’d help my family get by, and then they did this, I’d be pretty pissed off. So, you should be pissed off,
Martin said in a statement This will be the golden age of America. Will there be some pain? Yes, maybe (and maybe not!). But we will make America great again, and it will be worth the price that must be paid,
Make your product in the USA and there are no tariffs!"
Trump's decision will cost Americans dearly - tariffs always affect both sides,
Dirk Jandura, head of the German federal trade and services association BGA, was quoted by the German DPA news agency as saying It is going to have real consequences for people, for workers on both sides of our border. We don’t want to be here. We didn’t ask for this, but we will not back down in standing up both for Canadians and for the incredible successful relationship between Canada and the United States,
We were always there standing with you, grieving with you, the American people,
It is one of the heaviest attacks Mexico has received in its independent history. It is not admissible, it cannot be accepted, a unilateral decision of such magnitude … We are all going to lose, they will too,
Ricardo Monreal, the governing party congressional leader, said An attack of this magnitude, Canadians will demand that their government respond. I hope Americans understand right now that in Canada there’s a lot of anger. We are supposed to be the United States’s closest ally, and folks are trying to wrap their heads around why this is happening,
said Lana Payne, head of Unifor, representing Canadian autoworkers We will have to closely look at how Japan would be particularly affected and take the necessary steps [in response],
Kato was quoted as saying I’ve instructed my economy minister to implement the Plan B we’ve been working on, which includes tariff and non-tariff measures in defense of Mexico’s interests,
Sheinbaum posted, without specifying what US goods her government will target Tariffs against Canada will put your jobs at risk, potentially shutting down American auto assembly plants and other manufacturing facilities,
Trudeau said during a news conference in Ottawa As British Columbians, and as Canadians, we will stand strong and united in the face of this unprecedented attack,
