Subj : Re: I watched the 'talk'
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sat Mar 15 2025 08:50:00

> MP>Someone mentioned in another echo that they thought all the posturing
bout
>   >tarrifs was to get other countries to lower/eliminate existing tarrifs
hat
>   >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.

LOL, yeah, which is why I wasn't really counting the previously-existing
ones.  I wasn't sure what they were on as I was sure Trump was
exaggerating, but I did know there was one on milk and/or cattle.

> 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.

Trump asking who signed that is because he knows a lot of folks would never
research it and figure out it was he himself that signed it.  ;)

> 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.

Yes, and it is something you have to be real careful with.

Mike


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