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CA-ALL New Tariffs

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kstrauss

Super User
Looking at the revised list of items subject to a 25% Canadian tariff. There are numerous specific items that will particularly impact members of this group. If you need something it would be prudent to purchase from vendor's current stock before any price increase. From a quick look:
• Huge selection of items of iron/steel including pipe, tubing, structural, sheet, wire, barbed wire, etc
• Huge selection of items and raw stock of aluminum and aluminum alloys
• Tanks used for compressed gases
• Nails, screws, cotter pins, washers, springs
• All sorts of hand tools
• Sewing needles, knitting needles, bodkins, crochet hooks,
• pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads
• spades, shovels, mattocks, picks, hoes, forks and rakes; axes, bill hooks and similar hewing tools; secateurs and pruners of any kind; scythes, sickles, hay knives, hedge shears, timber wedges and other tools of a kind used in agriculture, horticulture or forestry.
• Circular, bandsaw and slitting saw blades
• files and rasps
• Padlocks
• paper clips,
• welding rods
• hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters
• smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks
• Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys
• Articles and equipment for general physical exercise, gymnastics, athletics, other sports (including table-tennis)
• Fishing rods, fish-hooks
• Travelling circuses and travelling menageries
• Brooms
• Cigarette lighters
• powder-puffs and pads for the application of cosmetics or toilet preparations
• camera tripods

See https://www.canada.ca/en/department...per-cent-tariffs-effective-march-13-2025.html
 
Dumbest trade war in history. Take aluminum, for example. Quebec is a key supplier...why? Because producing aluminum takes huge amounts of electricity and Quebec, through its hydro-electric plants, produces enormous amounts of inexpensive electricity. Tell me anywhere in the US that can produce that volume of power and that cheaply. Go ahead; I'll wait. They'll wait too because it would take 8-10 years to design, build and commission a big new aluminum smelter and whatever is going to power it.

Aluminum is the stupidest product possible to hit with tariffs.

Craig
 
And Rio Tinto (used to be Alcan Aluminum) Kitimat in BC is on the coast, with a deep water port and an LNG export terminal. If we can't sell our aluminum into the US, and China is pissed about tariffs into the US, how about we talk to the Chinese? I'm sure we can figure out a mutually-beneficial deal. Dear USA, you might find it difficult to build F35 jets without aluminum...

Read this to realize what Canadians can do when we get enthusiastic about something:

en.wikipedia.org

Kitimat - Wikipedia

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