Aristides

When presented with facts your fall back is always to call someone a liar. Some things never change.

One day blip. Markets on the way down again today.

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/us-debt-by-president.html https://www.self.inc/info/us-debt-by-president/

40% of Harley Davidson production is sold outside the US. Europe and Asia are its biggest export markets, Canada is their third biggest. Wonder how reciprocal tariffs will affect their sales.

The US imposed 25% tariffs on European cars, they had been 25% on trucks since 1964. European tariffs on US cars were previously 10%. He is basing his numbers on trade deficits, not tariffs.

Really? What were they?

The US has had a 25% tariff on pickup trucks since 1964.

A POTUS doesn't get to make the rules for the rest of the world, it has its own ideas.

After WW2 the US emerged as the richest country in the world where the rest of the world had its industries and economies devastated by WW2. The rest of the world has since recovered and the 50's aren't coming back no matter how much Americans (or Canadians) may yearn for them.

When it comes to domestic travel, all countries have cabotage laws that prohibit foreign carriers, including the US. The EU is the only exception. If American carriers are allowed into the US, Canadian carriers would have to be given the same rights in the US. That won't happen. Also, US carriers would cherry pick our most lucrative routes and ignore the rest of the country. Air travel is a necessity in a country as large as Canada. Our population is too spread out and isn't large enough or distances short enough to have the same kind of rail service as Europe or Asia. Giving up the ability to feed ourselves to another country's subsidized agriculture would be a national security threat of the first order. I'm undecided on telecoms but there might be some of the same issues that apply to transportation.

They are government money going into an industry. This stuff can get really complicated, that's why we have dispute systems to sort them out. Trump doesn't like rules, he wants to make his own. If you want to talk national security, not giving up the ability to feed yourself and giving that control to someone else has to be near the top of the list.

So what, So is Boeing by the huge military contracts it gets from government. You spend around $900 billion on your military and are the world's largest arms exporter. That could also be seen as a subsidy. If you are going to put other country's government spending under a microscope, yours should have the same scrutiny. The US wants to elbow its way into Canada's agriculture when the US subsidizes its agriculture and Canada doesn't.

Then he should have no problem with zero zero.

Trump doesn’t want zero zero, he wants to balance trade which can never happen for any country. Zero zero would mean the US would have to give up things like the 25% tariff it has had on light trucks since 1964.