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Biden Is Trying to Buy EVs Time With New Tariffs on China. It Might Not Work (www.wired.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The US has done a great job of fucking Canada, now they're turning their attention to fucking Mexico, too.

It's giving Sino-Soviet split.

[–] Beaver 10 points 11 months ago

Yeah I hate American pharmaceutical companies so much trying to pry Pharmacare from the hands of everyday people.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not that I doubt it, but what did the US do to Canada?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We've had logging tariffs on them for a bit, especially at the start of the pandemic when lumber prices were insane and getting rid of them would've helped lower prices a bit.

[–] OutlierBlue 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Illegal tariffs. The Canadian lumber industry has taken them to court several times and win the cases. And nothing was changed. The US loves NAFTA when it benefits them. Not so much otherwise.

[–] intelshill 11 points 11 months ago

Exactly. The US decides when it wants to follow the rules it created.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

NAFTA no longer exists, the trade relationships are governed by USMCA now.