Subj : Re: I watched the 'talk'
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Sat Mar 15 2025 01:00:00

MP>Someone mentioned in another echo that they thought all the posturing about
  >tarrifs was to get other countries to lower/eliminate existing tarrifs that
  >they have on existing goods.  In the cases of Canada and Mexico, I was not
  >aware of any serious tarrifs existing before he started this.  China might
  >be a different matter, though.

I meant to mention when you first wrote this, there have always been
some taroffs on certain things. Trump recently has been complaining
about "240% Tariffs" on some Dairy and Poultry products you want to
sell us. That's a typical part lie, part exaggeration on his part.

First, our current agreement on those products Trump negotiated the
last time he was in office.

Secondly, we do have a tariff on some of those products, 5% to 7%,
because your gov't subsidizes your farm producers there to keep
their prices lower, so it's unfair competition.

The "240% Tariffs" can actually happen, but it is a penalty that
is added when you sell us more of those products than what the
agreement that Trump negotiated said was allowed.

Plus our prices on that stuff is high here because our gov't uses
what is called a Supply Management system, which basically means that
the gov't sets the rough prices on certain products high enough so
that the farmers make a good enough profit to stay in business where
competing with each other could bankrupt farms creating shortages,
so that's basically a tariff on Canadians to buy from our own farmers.

Supply Management is the Supply end controling prices rather than Demand.

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