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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If tariffs are unfair, why is it ok for other countries to put them on USA made goods?[/quote]

Who said they were unfair?  They are economically destructive to the US at the rates and breadth Trump is doing them.[/quote]
People on this thread, saying it is a tax on Americans, hurting the poor and helping the wealthy.
Don't other countries realize this when they are putting tariffs up?[/quote]
sure, but the US started this trade war right now.  It's like saying Ukrainians shouldn't fight back against the Russians because their citizens are dying.  When another country tries to  hurt you, you don't just roll over because your people might get hurt.[/quote
The other countries put up their tariffs first.[/quote][/quote]
Most of the trade between MX and Canada had no tariffs before Trump. Trump basically scrapped NAFTA and then "renegotiated" a new deal called USMCA.

Example: ag and dairy products.  Trump claimed that Canada was imposing tariffs on dairy products from the US, but that was misleading. There were threshold quotas, which were quite high, and if the import met that threshold, then it was subjected to tariffs. The US had similar rules.   But, US exports have never met that threshold, and so none of the exports were taxed.

Ag exports did not have tariffs.

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/04/trumps-misleading-claim-on-canadian-dairy-tariffs/

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In 2024, the U.S. exported more than $1.1 billion in dairy products to Canada, a nearly 55% increase in exports since 2020. None of it was subject to triple-digit Canadian tariffs. Canada is the second-largest international recipient of U.S. dairy behind Mexico.

the US has a similar system of trade protection for dairy products, albeit with generally lower Over-Quota Tariff rates.” For example, he told us that while butter imported from Canada to the U.S. faces no tariffs under a predetermined quota threshold, it is subject to over-quota tariffs of about 24%, or up to 39%.

[b] The USDA website states that under both the USMCA and NAFTA, “almost all agricultural products traded between the United States and Canada” face no tariffs or quotas. [/b][/quote][/quote]

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