shockedcanadian
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Trumps team is aware that Canada has been violating laws of fair trade between the nations. Undoubtably guided by information from Canadians to encourage then to investigate a broad swath of trade rules, civil liberties and fair access to justice.
The tariffs will most certainly go up after USMCA is ripped up, Canada will lose 100,000 jobs overnight, half which will return to America. Japan alone said that without USMCA/CUSMA they will not invest in Canadian auto manufacturing but will have to go straight to the U.S to avoid tariffs.
No one can blame me, I am just the Messenger fighting Goliath. The abusers in Canada are perhaps finally learning that there are much bigger powers than that which Goliath wielded.
Last week, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) launched investigations into 60 economies under Section 301(b) of the U.S. Trade Act of 1974 to determine whether they have failed to impose or enforce bans on imports produced with forced labour. But critics in the Washington beltway say the 301 probes are basically a “show trial” and that the verdict is sure to go against trading partners such as Canada.
Canada and Mexico, two of America’s biggest trading partners, are being grouped together with China and dozens of other countries for these investigations. The probes will examine whether Ottawa’s forced-labour rules and framework, including the 2023 Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act, are sufficient for screening goods produced by child or forced labour.
The inclusion of Canada “was unbelievably shocking to me,” said Clark Packard, research fellow at CATO’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies.
“This poisons the well in terms of any USMCA negotiation,” Packard added, referring to the renegotiation of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement scheduled for July.
Section 301 gives the U.S. trade representative power to unilaterally restrict imports or suspend trade agreements over trade practices it considers unjustifiable, unreasonable or discriminatory, or that burden domestic commerce.
The tariffs will most certainly go up after USMCA is ripped up, Canada will lose 100,000 jobs overnight, half which will return to America. Japan alone said that without USMCA/CUSMA they will not invest in Canadian auto manufacturing but will have to go straight to the U.S to avoid tariffs.
No one can blame me, I am just the Messenger fighting Goliath. The abusers in Canada are perhaps finally learning that there are much bigger powers than that which Goliath wielded.
Last week, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) launched investigations into 60 economies under Section 301(b) of the U.S. Trade Act of 1974 to determine whether they have failed to impose or enforce bans on imports produced with forced labour. But critics in the Washington beltway say the 301 probes are basically a “show trial” and that the verdict is sure to go against trading partners such as Canada.
Canada and Mexico, two of America’s biggest trading partners, are being grouped together with China and dozens of other countries for these investigations. The probes will examine whether Ottawa’s forced-labour rules and framework, including the 2023 Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act, are sufficient for screening goods produced by child or forced labour.
The inclusion of Canada “was unbelievably shocking to me,” said Clark Packard, research fellow at CATO’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies.
“This poisons the well in terms of any USMCA negotiation,” Packard added, referring to the renegotiation of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement scheduled for July.
Section 301 gives the U.S. trade representative power to unilaterally restrict imports or suspend trade agreements over trade practices it considers unjustifiable, unreasonable or discriminatory, or that burden domestic commerce.
