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It’s incredible how people just don’t understand how tariffs work, but believe an aging man with early onset dementia’s and wears a diaper.

I get what they're saying but I think the "Paid for by the government of canada" might be misinterpreted...

Silly Canada. You’re not suppose to say that you put up the billboard. You’re suppose to run it through a various political organizations like “Americans For a Better Future” or American Families for Prosperity“.

Tariff charges are paid by the importer, not the exporter. Adding huge tariffs to Chinese manufactured goods can only hurt American companies who rely on Chinese engineering and manufacturing expertise.

This is a charge that American companies will have to pay and it is the people of the US who will foot the bill for additional costs.

These Tariffs are not approved by Congress, so they are taxation without representation.

Thank you for running these, Canada! Too many of my fellow Americans are clueless about tariffs and how they are taxes that Americans pay. While the MAGA cultists are lost, there are many others who would have voted against Donvict Dementia if they knew what a tariff was back in October/November 2024. It helps now too because Republican Senators like Mike Lee and John Curtis need to be pressured to impeach donOLD Krasnov, for the benefit of both the States as well as our dear Canadian friends. It's appalling to see Republicans who pretend to be against unnecessary taxes supporting or standing silent on an issue that Republicans used to be solidly AGAINST.

The Republican when they see this: "yeah but JJOOOEEEEE BIIIDEN!"

I hope this is a billboard on the Canadian side of the border that's pointing towards the US.

They aren't, though specifically for groceries, it's somewhat-less relevant for the US than Canada, because we produce a wider variety of food domestically.

There are some important things that we do import, which have been discussed on here, like out-of-season fruits and vegetables.

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These guys highlight several fields:

https://www.eatingwell.com/foods-impacted-by-new-tariffs-11712453

• Tropical Produce

the US consumes more than it has tropical regions to grow tropical foods in.

• Seafood

• Coffee

• Olive Oil, which we mostly get from Europe. "The U.S. produces only 2% of the olive oil that it consumes"

• Chocolate

• Nuts (though IIRC we're a major producer of some important nuts, like almonds and peanuts).

Also, the foods that we're especially competitive in tend to be bulk, low-value stuff, grains and such, which is the staple stuff that you'd really need if prices went up. We tend to import stuff like luxury food from Europe, which is nice but something that one could live without if one's budget was tight.

One impact will come from fertilizer, which we import a lot of; that'll drive up our cost of production of food.

The fact that we're a major exporter of food is actually a major reason why you'd expect the agriculture industry to be unhappy with Trump, though agricultural states tended to vote for him. American agriculture is, by-and-large, globally-competitive. If it were uncompetitive, then tariffs might benefit it, providing useful protection from competition by forcing American consumers to buy it rather than more-competitive foreign products. And despite the lack of benefit, the agriculture industry likely does get hit by countertariffs.

The industries that will tend to benefit from tariffs are those where America isn't very globally-competitive in 2025, maybe low-skill, labor-intensive manufacturing, and that's where consumers are going to take a price hit from taxation. Clothing prices, for example. We're not very good at hand-producing clothing. Tariffs will cause those industries to be subsidized by transferring money from the industries that we're better at.

Apparently these are real, but many have rotated out.

Hell I just got back from the grocery store a few hours ago. It's hitting already. Just from 2 weeks ago when I last went stuff has gone up.

Yeah so y are we doing them?

Like I’m all for retaliation and fuck the US, not interested in bending to their will, but there’s gotta be a better way to fight back than retaliatory tariffs. I mean severing ties with US trade is great, let’s do that in a clean, not tariff way.