Then Canada will have to REMOVE it’s tariffs to lower the price back down.
If Trump did this unilaterally, that would be bad. But since Canada does it to our products, we have to do it back OR our wood industry goes south - OOPS!!! That part already happened because the previous administrations were PUSSIES.
The tariff battle isn’t simple. If you raise tariffs on one country because they have unfair tariffs on our products it might even the field, but it results in higher cost for we who buy their products. Some business rely on low cost materials to compete with other businesses.
If the end game is to get the other guy to lower their inordinately high tariffs on our products by threatening tariffs on their products that would be a good long term result. But it takes time and stubbornness.
Trump looks to be just the kind of person you want making these moves because he’s business savvy and he has what’s best for the US as his bottom line.
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