[small farm girl]

Instead of "fair trade" which seems to be a complex notion for some, the new talking point should be "We will match other country's tariffs." So if Canada has a 200% tariff on dairy, we will match it. If they have a 0% tariff on cars, we will match that too! I think there are too many people with the idea (no idea where they get wrong-headed ideas from ;^)) that these tariffs are punitive and other country's don't have tariffs on everything.

[Alberta's Child]

The problem with that approach is that it is overly simplistic. It doesn't make any sense to compare a tariff on dairy products to tariffs on steel and aluminum.

Any country whose leaders have half a brain will go to great lengths to protect their domestic agricultural industries -- for obvious reasons. That's why agricultural products aren't covered by many trade agreements -- including NAFTA (which is why Canada can impose a 200% tariff on dairy products without violating the terms of NAFTA).

[qaz123]

I thought that is what the President and Sec Ross have been saying since all of this started?

If a country wants “free trade” with the US, then we get the same with them.