Posted on 03/31/2025 4:53:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Canada slapped 25 percent tariffs on about 1,800 American products in March, and will implement 4,400 more on April 2, the day President Donald Trump plans to announce higher tariffs against every country that taxes U.S. imports.
Many of Canada’s tariffs are bizarrely targeted at imports that are virtually nonexistent, leading critics to suspect the list has been padded with nonsense to make the Canadian response look much tougher than it really is.
CTV on Sunday listed some of the “odd and obscure” imports targeted by Canada, including “flamethrowers, false beards, church bell cases, and live monkeys,” plus “manatee meat and passenger drones.”
Canadians will soon find themselves paying more for imported American accordion parts, emus, bovine semen, and clothing made with asbestos fibers. Toronto residents who dreamed of reaching the stars with an American-made spaceship will pay 25 percent more to make their dreams come true. Ottawa diarists will have to pay 25 percent more if they want to record their daily adventures in a diary imported from the United States. …
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Not the Bee, apparently.
Those are really going to hurt.
“I will say, manatee meat isn’t something we can make ourselves, but I don’t think it will create too much of a backlash from Canadian consumers,” University of Regina economics professor Jason Childs wryly noted.
I dread checking my email tomorrow. Canadians make up the biggest chunk of my foreign customers for our quality fake beards and I fear a wave of order cancellations. ;-)
I’m sure President Trump is very intimidated.
I am stunned.
It’s not the Bee...
Looks like I have to change my plans for next weekend.
https://www.americanoceans.org/facts/can-you-eat-manatee/
Manatee meat is an incredibly unique culinary experience because it cannot be said to have one singular “taste,” even when you’re talking about one single manatee. Instead, different parts have different flavors.
WHAT, no live monkeys and flamethrowers..thats it, Im gonna write Trump a strongly written anti tariff tweet/sarc
Who eats manatees?
Fake beards?
Obviously, Canadians in high places are INSANE!
“imports targeted by Canada, including “flamethrowers, false beards, church bell cases, and live monkeys,” plus “manatee meat and passenger drones.” OK, good, means more for me.
I am crushed! It will add hundreds of cents to my food budget. But the live monkeys were a pain in the as$ anyway.
Oh, the Huge Manatee!
What will do if we can’t import live monkeys from Canada?!
I demand a retaliatory tariff on polar bear meat.
https://floridahillbilly.com/manatee-steaks-finally/
He then told me he doesn’t care much for manatee himself, though every time he goes out with Joe and “the boys” for hunting or fishing trips, they want to feed him manatee, or sea turtle, or some other odd wild game.
When I asked why he didn’t like the manatee, he said,
“It tastes too much like porpoise!”
Usually my timing is bad - but luckily, I sold my church bell case company last year.
My pet monkey business is another story.
Well, that would keep out Trudeau. But on a more serious note, we can bring in Canadian live monkeys, but Canucks will have to pay more to bring in American monkeys. That's really going to hurt Silver Springs, Florida, I suppose.
CBC reported on Sunday that the Canadian government is purchasing billboards in Republican-voting states, and the District of Columbia, with messages such as, “Tariffs Are a Tax On Your Grocery Bill,” “Tariffs Are a Tax At the Gas Pump,” and “Tariffs Are a Tax On Hard-Working Americans.”
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