Canada To Trump Tariffs: FAFO Red States

 

We should be grateful our good neighbor and trading partner to the north are not going to take destructive threats from the Malignant Fascist laying down, and they know where to punch back:

Orange juice from Florida. Whiskey from Tennessee. Peanut butter from Kentucky.

Canada is preparing for an all-out trade war with its closest ally and one of its top trading partners, and the list of American goods that could be affected is long.

Canadian officials are preparing a three-stage plan of retaliatory tariffs and other trade restrictions against the United States, which will be put into motion if President-elect Donald J. Trump makes good on his threat to impose a blanket 25 percent tariff on all Canadian goods imported into the United States.

Canadian officials will wait until Mr. Trump has made his move — which he has said will be on his first day in office, Monday — and then start with imposing tariffs. They would mostly affect consumer goods worth 37 billion Canadian dollars ($25.6 billion), according to two senior government officials familiar with the plans.  [snip]

The Canadian officials said their choice of goods was meant to be precisely targeted and aimed at political impact. They specifically want to focus on goods made in Republican or swing states, where the pain of tariffs, like pressure on jobs and the bottom lines of local businesses, would affect Trump allies.

Canada’s government hopes that those allies, including governors or members of Congress, would then pick up the phone and call Mr. Trump, intervening in favor of de-escalation...

Our other good neighbor and trading partner to the south is also working on a retaliatory list, hopefully following Canada's example of targeting the MF's red states.

The MF, being an incompetent illiterate in economic policy as in so many other areas, has had an affinity for tariffs his entire adult life.  Whether the bluffing blowhard would go through with imposing crippling tariffs or is simply using them as a threat to bully our trading partners into concessions, we can be sure he's going to declare victory no matter what (if anything) transpires over the coming weeks and months.  But, we must admit the idea of having red states suffer some economic blowback for their support of the MF would cause us no small degree of schadenfreude.  FAFO!

(Photo:  the MF opens his tariff pie hole / Mandel Ngan, AFP, Getty)