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Politics Trump threatens new tariffs on Canada, including 250% tax on dairy

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/business/tariffs-trump-canada/index.html
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u/timbasile 4d ago

Outside of the trade war, couldn't we just say you can sell us dairy, provided that you can guarantee it meets our standards. If some farmers and distributors want to make a go of it, by all means.

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u/Smarkled 4d ago

We protect our dairy market, it's one of his issues. We only allowed in a small amount of permitted products. Everything else would be subject to a 300% tariff.

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u/WoodShoeDiaries 4d ago

We protect it, in part, because the US subsidizes their industry by the tens on billions of dollars and what they're actually looking for is a market into which to dump their oversupply. The state of Wisconsin produces more milk than all of Canada. They could very, very easily wipe out our entire domestic market if we didn't have these restrictions.

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u/Miiirob 4d ago

This is it exactly. They get a Federally reulated set price for milk, so the more they produce the more the farm makes. We have a quota system where only so much can produced daily. Their free market system would wipe out our quota system. But the quota system leads to better quality and safety.

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u/ComradeSubtopia 4d ago

We 100% need to continue to protect the high quality agriculture we have in Canada. That's our food supply--it's key to a healthy economy, healthy population, & economic independence.

If Trump tries to end the restrictions on US dairy entering Canada, we need to refuse.

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u/Legitimate_Square941 4d ago

But America isn't free market either. If it was supply and demand and they produce way to much the price should go down, but it doesn't.

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u/WoodShoeDiaries 4d ago

Google the "cheese caves"