Trump’s tariffs are pushing Canada closer to China and India

[Zincwarrior]

Canada's PM has promised to double non US exports in ten years. I am sure an increased relationship with China won't be a problem for us.​

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Trump’s tariffs are pushing Canada closer to China and India​

Prime Minister Mark Carney has promised to double non-U.S. exports by 2035. That means making up with two of Canada’s greatest adversaries.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/24/canada-tariffs-trade-diversification/

TORONTO — The week after an anti-tariff ad funded by Ontario pushed President Donald Trump to halt trade talks with Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney was having a far more cordial encounter with the unlikeliest of world leaders: Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Sino-Canadian ties cratered in 2018, when China detained two Canadians in what was widely viewed here as hostage diplomacy. Canadian security officials have accused Beijing of conducting espionage, interfering in elections and threatening critics here. China denies the claims. Both nations have expelled each other’s diplomats and put tariffs on each other’s goods.

But after this month’s meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, the first between a Canadian prime minister and Chinese president since 2017, Carney heralded a “turning point.” Xi even invited him to China, and he RSVP’d in the affirmative.



The developments, which would have been improbable as recently as a year ago, are another indication of how Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods and threats to make the country the 51st state are scrambling Ottawa’s economic and political alliances.

Leaders here are now seeking to shift the economy from “reliance to resilience” by diversifying trade away from the United States, the destination for more than 75 percent of its exports. They’ve set a goal of doubling non-U.S. exports by 2035.

“The rules-based international order and the trading system that powered Canada’s prosperity for decades are being reshaped — threatening our sovereignty, our prosperity and our values,” the government says in its budget, unveiled this month. “In the process, we must redefine Canada’s international and security relationships. This is not a transition. It is a rupture.”
Carney won April’s election by casting himself as the person best placed to manage that rupture. Now he’s eyeing a cautious rapprochement with not only China but also India and other nations with which Canada has had strained relations.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Canada's PM has promised to double non US exports in ten years. I am sure an increased relationship with China won't be a problem for us.​

​

Trump’s tariffs are pushing Canada closer to China and India​

Prime Minister Mark Carney has promised to double non-U.S. exports by 2035. That means making up with two of Canada’s greatest adversaries.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/24/canada-tariffs-trade-diversification/

TORONTO — The week after an anti-tariff ad funded by Ontario pushed President Donald Trump to halt trade talks with Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney was having a far more cordial encounter with the unlikeliest of world leaders: Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Sino-Canadian ties cratered in 2018, when China detained two Canadians in what was widely viewed here as hostage diplomacy. Canadian security officials have accused Beijing of conducting espionage, interfering in elections and threatening critics here. China denies the claims. Both nations have expelled each other’s diplomats and put tariffs on each other’s goods.

But after this month’s meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, the first between a Canadian prime minister and Chinese president since 2017, Carney heralded a “turning point.” Xi even invited him to China, and he RSVP’d in the affirmative.



The developments, which would have been improbable as recently as a year ago, are another indication of how Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods and threats to make the country the 51st state are scrambling Ottawa’s economic and political alliances.

Leaders here are now seeking to shift the economy from “reliance to resilience” by diversifying trade away from the United States, the destination for more than 75 percent of its exports. They’ve set a goal of doubling non-U.S. exports by 2035.

“The rules-based international order and the trading system that powered Canada’s prosperity for decades are being reshaped — threatening our sovereignty, our prosperity and our values,” the government says in its budget, unveiled this month. “In the process, we must redefine Canada’s international and security relationships. This is not a transition. It is a rupture.”
Carney won April’s election by casting himself as the person best placed to manage that rupture. Now he’s eyeing a cautious rapprochement with not only China but also India and other nations with which Canada has had strained relations.

This has little to do with tariffs, it is about Canada needing to diversity. Also, there are MANY warnings from our intel agencies about these two nations in particular and what it could do for our relationship with the U.S which is already strained due to actions and Whistleblowers advising the U.S about what is going on here.

Time will tell if Carney listens. SELL them more, buy less and stop outsourcing.

 

[Eman623]

Trump’s tariffs are pushing Canada closer to China and India​

I'm sure that will work out great for them. China never engaged in predatory business practices, stealing IP or dumping to get a monopoly

 

[leftwinger]

CHINA builds these cities on USA trade deficit for decades. Stain? They want it to continue. SMH.

 

[Dragonlady]

Trump’s tariffs are pushing Canada closer to China and India​

I'm sure that will work out great for them. China never engaged in predatory business practices, stealing IP or dumping to get a monopoly

We're not reaching out to China, we're building relationships with the Europeans, the Mexicans, Japan, and India,

Apparently the USA is screwed for aluminum. We sold the aluminum Trump said you didn't need, to Europe, and we sold it for a higher price than you were paying.

Wash rinse and repeat for lumber. The Europeans grabbed it. American prices are now soaring because of shortages.

Not very smart of Trump at all. You haven't just lost us as a supplier. You've lost us PERMANENTLY, as your main supplier.

 

[The Irish Ram]

We're not reaching out to China, we're building relationships with the Europeans, the Mexicans, Japan, and India,

Apparently the USA is screwed for aluminum. We sold the aluminum Trump said you didn't need, to Europe, and we sold it for a higher price than you were paying.

Wash rinse and repeat for lumber. The Europeans grabbed it. American prices are now soaring because of shortages.

Not very smart of Trump at all. You haven't just lost us as a supplier. You've lost us PERMANENTLY, as your main supplier.

Good. Keep it up. In turn, China will teach your leaders how to make the best 15 minute city surveillance systems and digital ID's and everything else China does to their own citizens.
We have our own aluminum factories. Over the past decade, the aluminum industry has invested more than $10 billion in U.S. manufacturing to support growing demand for the metal. As for lumber, we have trees too.

 

[Robert W]

Canada's PM has promised to double non US exports in ten years. I am sure an increased relationship with China won't be a problem for us.​

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Trump’s tariffs are pushing Canada closer to China and India​

Democrats keep insisting that Canada does not pay the tariffs, that Americans pay them.

 

[Eman623]

We're not reaching out to China, we're building relationships with the Europeans, the Mexicans, Japan, and India,

Apparently the USA is screwed for aluminum. We sold the aluminum Trump said you didn't need, to Europe, and we sold it for a higher price than you were paying.

Wash rinse and repeat for lumber. The Europeans grabbed it. American prices are now soaring because of shortages.

Not very smart of Trump at all. You haven't just lost us as a supplier. You've lost us PERMANENTLY, as your main supplier.

If you could have gotten more from the Europeans for aluminum, why have you been selling it to the US in the first place?

Lumber prices are down in the US. And Canadian lumber dumping is not cool.

 

[Dragonlady]

If you could have gotten more from the Europeans for aluminum, why have you been selling it to the US in the first place?

Lumber prices are down in the US. And Canadian lumber dumping is not cool.

If you could have gotten more from the Europeans for aluminum, why have you been selling it to the US in the first place?

Lumber prices are down in the US. And Canadian lumber dumping is not cool.

Lumber prices aren’t down and the only reason you have supply now is because nobody is building. It happens every winter.

 

[Eman623]

Lumber prices aren’t down and the only reason you have supply now is because nobody is building. It happens every winter.

Everything you just said was a lie. Lumber futures are about $20 lower today for 1000 bd/ft than they were on 1/7/2025. They are also falling even lower right now while they were rising last year.

Lumber - Price - Chart - Historical Data - News

Lumber fell to 586.50 USD/1000 board feet on February 5, 2026, down 0.34% from the previous day. Over the past month, Lumber's price has risen 10.24%, and is up 0.15% compared to the same time last year, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for...

tradingeconomics.com

 

[badbob85037]

Canada's PM has promised to double non US exports in ten years. I am sure an increased relationship with China won't be a problem for us.​

​

Trump’s tariffs are pushing Canada closer to China and India​

Prime Minister Mark Carney has promised to double non-U.S. exports by 2035. That means making up with two of Canada’s greatest adversaries.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/24/canada-tariffs-trade-diversification/

TORONTO — The week after an anti-tariff ad funded by Ontario pushed President Donald Trump to halt trade talks with Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney was having a far more cordial encounter with the unlikeliest of world leaders: Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Sino-Canadian ties cratered in 2018, when China detained two Canadians in what was widely viewed here as hostage diplomacy. Canadian security officials have accused Beijing of conducting espionage, interfering in elections and threatening critics here. China denies the claims. Both nations have expelled each other’s diplomats and put tariffs on each other’s goods.

But after this month’s meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, the first between a Canadian prime minister and Chinese president since 2017, Carney heralded a “turning point.” Xi even invited him to China, and he RSVP’d in the affirmative.



The developments, which would have been improbable as recently as a year ago, are another indication of how Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods and threats to make the country the 51st state are scrambling Ottawa’s economic and political alliances.

Leaders here are now seeking to shift the economy from “reliance to resilience” by diversifying trade away from the United States, the destination for more than 75 percent of its exports. They’ve set a goal of doubling non-U.S. exports by 2035.

“The rules-based international order and the trading system that powered Canada’s prosperity for decades are being reshaped — threatening our sovereignty, our prosperity and our values,” the government says in its budget, unveiled this month. “In the process, we must redefine Canada’s international and security relationships. This is not a transition. It is a rupture.”
Carney won April’s election by casting himself as the person best placed to manage that rupture. Now he’s eyeing a cautious rapprochement with not only China but also India and other nations with which Canada has had strained relations.

Let the American whose home is not full of cheap Chinese goods throw the first stone. "They will finance their own destruction."

 

[Mac-7]

Canada's PM has promised to double non US exports in ten years. I am sure an increased relationship with China won't be a problem for us.​

​

Trump’s tariffs are pushing Canada closer to China and India​

Prime Minister Mark Carney has promised to double non-U.S. exports by 2035. That means making up with two of Canada’s greatest adversaries.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/24/canada-tariffs-trade-diversification/

TORONTO — The week after an anti-tariff ad funded by Ontario pushed President Donald Trump to halt trade talks with Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney was having a far more cordial encounter with the unlikeliest of world leaders: Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Sino-Canadian ties cratered in 2018, when China detained two Canadians in what was widely viewed here as hostage diplomacy. Canadian security officials have accused Beijing of conducting espionage, interfering in elections and threatening critics here. China denies the claims. Both nations have expelled each other’s diplomats and put tariffs on each other’s goods.

But after this month’s meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, the first between a Canadian prime minister and Chinese president since 2017, Carney heralded a “turning point.” Xi even invited him to China, and he RSVP’d in the affirmative.



The developments, which would have been improbable as recently as a year ago, are another indication of how Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods and threats to make the country the 51st state are scrambling Ottawa’s economic and political alliances.

Leaders here are now seeking to shift the economy from “reliance to resilience” by diversifying trade away from the United States, the destination for more than 75 percent of its exports. They’ve set a goal of doubling non-U.S. exports by 2035.

“The rules-based international order and the trading system that powered Canada’s prosperity for decades are being reshaped — threatening our sovereignty, our prosperity and our values,” the government says in its budget, unveiled this month. “In the process, we must redefine Canada’s international and security relationships. This is not a transition. It is a rupture.”
Carney won April’s election by casting himself as the person best placed to manage that rupture. Now he’s eyeing a cautious rapprochement with not only China but also India and other nations with which Canada has had strained relations.

Trump is overplaying his hand on tariffs when he uses them as a political club instead of an economic tool

Hopefully he will soon adjust his approach