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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Intrepid1 who wrote (76790)	6/11/2018 4:44:30 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 358715

You can always find an example of what appears to be a large tariff one way or another between two countries that trade a lot with each other. But tariffs shouldn't be looked at in isolation from the context of the entire trading relationship. There will be a lot on some things one way, but a lot on other things the other way. This article (see below) gives at least a little context, although I will grant that a full analysis will be more complicated than even this article indicates. The bottom line, though, the US enjoys a trade surplus with Canada when all goods and services are included in the calculation. Trump and his people only want to look at those goods in which Canada imposes tariffs. This is a bad way to conduct a relationship between two strong countries. Especially countries with the historic relationship that the US and Canada have had over the past century (unlike Trump, I won't go back to the War of 1812 when the US invaded Canada, erroneously believing that Canadians really wanted to join the US and it would be easy to drive the British out). What U.S. trade with Canada actually looks like by Philip Bump June 11 at 10:18 AM washingtonpost.com