The Canadian government has released a comprehensive list of American goods that will be tariffed.
The list includes cheeses, meats, milk, fruits, vegetables, coffee, spices, chocolates, pastas, fruit juices, beer, wine, liqueurs, tobacco, perfumes, beauty products, kitchenware, car parts, lumber, toilet paper, clothing and household items.
In the short to medium term, this possibly decrease prices on these items in the US?
Taxing US meat and other food stuffs is not retaliation, it’s a public health benefit!
This is great, US businesses will suffer before the US government starts feeling the pain of less tax revenue from those businesses.
Ultimately the everyday citizens will feel the biggest pinch in higher prices, fewer jobs, and shortages, and the fed will just raise taxes to make up the shortfall, further fucking the rest of us over. Never do these policies hamper the top of the food chain, despite them playing with our livelihoods as political fodder.
Primary source, regular updates as well: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/02/list-of-products-from-the-united-states-subject-to-25-per-cent-tariffs-effective-february-4-2025.html
These are almost all small consumer goods. Where are the tariffs on big-ticket industrial goods and services? On Teslas? On datacenters and cloud computing services (Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, M$FT Azure, Oracle Cloud)? Hit American BigCorps where it hurts. Make the execs and shareholders feel the pain.
On Teslas?
"This second list will be made available in the coming days, and will include passenger vehicles, trucks and buses, recreational vehicles and boats, steel and aluminum products, aerospace products, and more, according to the finance department. "
Steel is gonna hurt. It’s always the steel you got to fear.
I’m thinking lumber is going to hurt too. So much of our home building in the USA is make with Canadian lumber. This right at a time when we need to build more housing than ever. So now new home prices are going to go up by a chunk for just the new raw material price increases. This will have a on-knock effect on existing home prices increasing them too.
It remains to be seen what the much bigger tarifs package is gonna cover:
_Tuesday’s tariffs are the first of two phases announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday, said to total $30 billion in U.S. goods. A further round of tariffs on a wider list of American products, valued at $125 billion, is expected to come into effect 21 days later, following a public comment period.
This second list will be made available in the coming days, and will include passenger vehicles, trucks and buses, recreational vehicles and boats, steel and aluminum products, aerospace products, and more, according to the finance department. _
On datacenters and cloud computing services (Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, M$FT Azure, Oracle Cloud)?
I was thinking about this one. If a datacenter is in Canada and its compute is being consumed in Canada would it still be subjected to tariffs?
If the billing company is Canadian, if they have something like “AWS Canada”, then I guess not.
Where is IT and technology?
Very hard to put tariffs on that. They would need to be taxed, as no goods really cross the border with them.
I can’t find direct evidence at their federal level, but their British Columbia Premier did mention targeting US’s ‘red States’ for their liquor stores. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-premier-david-eby-us-tariffs-1.7448307
Looking at the list, it does seem to be mostly agricultural goods and manufactured goods, which do mostly come from Trump-supporting areas.
The counter tariffs are supposed to be sanctions on the US not on Canada itself.
Yeah, that list will pinch the people, but tech is calling the shots. Nobody that started this tariff war cares about that list.
Edit: that said, don’t blame them. This whole shitpile never had to happen. Maybe poking the people is their way to bring awareness.
