The first trade war of the Trump administration is with — Canada! Not counting sanctions as trade war, of course. Sanctions are just war by non-military means.
Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, told President Donald Trump on Wednesday he would block his country’s armed forces from buying Boeing aircraft if the US presses ahead with plans to slap import tariffs of 300 percent on Bombardier aeroplanes.
The issue is threatening to ignite a trade war between the US, Canada and the UK, where the Canadian planemaker employs about 4,000 people in Belfast.…And the UK!
Theresa May, the Prime Minster, responded by saying the US was risking a trade war and warned Boeing that it was jeopardising future deals with the Ministry of Defence to supply aircraft such as its Apache helicopters.Not sure that DJT has thought this trade thing through.
The Telegraph
Justin Trudeau tells Donald Trump he will block Boeing contracts over Bombardier tariff row
5 comments:
Canada and UK combined have accrued about $300B and US continues in deficit to these zombies:
http://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt
Gotta get that back...
Gotta get that back...
Trump thinks we need those dollars. He doesn't get that the issues the USD and has no need to get them from anywhere.
Instead of having human beings running the US, Canada and the UK (and indeed other countries) can't we have gorillas doing the job? Should improve things.
What happen if the UK joins the American trade group instead of the European trade group? Now they have people at the NAFTA negotiations while the EU negotiations have stalled. Could happen.
The US and UK are natural allies. The UK is traditionally the enemy of France and Germany, who control the Europe. Britain will never submit to their control, which membership in the EU involves. The US and Britain fought two major wars with Germany in the last century, and Germany now dominates the EU.
The US is the successor to the thalassocracy created the British Empire and has included Britain in the Anglo-American empire as a junior partner, along with Canada, Australia and NZ enjoying special relationship.
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