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Mr Trump sometimes sounds as if the US shouldn’t import anything at all, that America can be a perfectly closed economy making everything at home,
The President is right to focus on major problems like our broken border and the scourge of fentanyl, but the imposition of tariffs under IEEPA is unprecedented, won’t solve these problems, and will only raise prices for American families and upend supply chains.”
The group’s senior vice-president John Murphy said THOSE DAYS ARE OVER!”
Trump continues in the screed The Chamber will consult with our members, including main street businesses across the country impacted by this move, to determine next steps to prevent economic harm to Americans.”
Leaving China aside, Mr. Trump’s justification for this economic assault on the neighbors makes no sense,
The “Tariff Lobby,” headed by the Globalist, and always wrong, Wall Street Journal, is working hard to justify Countries like Canada, Mexico, China, and too many others to name, continue the decades long RIPOFF OF AMERICA, both with regard to TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS that are allowed to so freely flow into AMERICA,
Trump wrote Sunday morning on Truth Social We allow them to take lumber
Last month, Trump said of Canada specifically The question is, does that include tariffs, since IEEPA has only been used for sanctions,
Virginians want lower prices, not higher ones and the last thing we need are new, senseless taxes on imports from America's three largest trading partners,
The courts have historically upheld the president’s power to take emergency actions, especially when they are related to national security,
said Tim Brightbill, who co-chairs the international trade practice at the law firm Wiley Rein At least for me, I don't think there is such a connection in this case,
Judges are not likely to second guess a president on what constitutes an emergency,
said William Reinsch, a trade expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, At the very least, however, courts should find that allowing Trump to wave his magic Sharpie to sign an IEEPA executive order imposing tariffs would upset the balance Congress has long sought to strike when it delegates its tariff authority to the president,
he said in a note on Friday If the president does choose to implement any tariffs against Canada, we're ready with a response -- a purposeful, forceful but reasonable, immediate response,
Trudeau told reporters before a meeting with his advisory council on Canada-US relations on Friday, The Globe and Mail reported The United States has confirmed that it intends to impose 25% tariffs on most Canadian goods, with 10% tariffs on energy, starting February 4. I’ve met with the Premiers and our Cabinet today, and I’ll be speaking with President Sheinbaum of Mexico shortly. We did not want this, but Canada is prepared. I’ll be addressing Canadians later this evening."
Reacting to this development, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took to X and said Additionally, illegal border crossings from Canada reached historic new highs every year for the last four fiscal years
Mexican cartels are the world’s leading traffickers of fentanyl, meth, and other drugs. These cartels have an alliance with the government of Mexico and endanger the national security and public health of the United States."
We have stressed that steep tariff increases against U.S. trading partners could create a stagflationary shock - a negative economic hit combined with an inflationary impulse - while also triggering financial market volatility,
President Donald J. Trump is implementing a 25% additional tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10% additional tariff on imports from China. Energy resources from Canada will have a lower 10% tariff,
