{"id":41695,"date":"2025-08-11T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=41695"},"modified":"2025-08-11T11:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:04:21","slug":"why-canada-isnt-sweating-trumps-mob-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=41695","title":{"rendered":"Why Canada Isn\u2019t Sweating Trump\u2019s Mob Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/trump-canada-one.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"177\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">For months, Trump has railed against Canada, threatening to turn America\u2019s neighbor into the 51st state \u2014 but the U.S. still has a treaty with Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/trump-canada-mob-tactics-tariffs-trade-treaty-1235400203\/\">Why Canada Isn\u2019t Sweating Trump\u2019s Mob Tactics<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>so&#8230;. still gonna hurt, but maybe not so much?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>But the courts and more importantly the markets wouldn\u2019t stand idly by if Trump attempted to unilaterally disregard a foundational, legally binding element of the North American economy like the USMCA \u2014 or at least that\u2019s a dare that the president doesn\u2019t seem willing to risk.<br>&#8230;<br>The truth is that under the terms of the USMCA, 95 percent of the goods and services that Canada exports to the United States arrive duty free, leaving a relatively small five percent subject to Trump\u2019s imperial 35 percent tariff. But even that doesn\u2019t capture the absurd reality.<br>&#8230;<br>Despite the bluster, Trump\u2019s supposed archenemy Canada now faces the lowest tariffs in the world, and those that have been imposed are causing severe damage in America, making them self-destructive and likely to be quietly revoked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For months, Trump has railed against Canada, threatening to turn America\u2019s neighbor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[84,2008,1102],"class_list":["post-41695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-canada","tag-tariffs","tag-tfg","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41699,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41695\/revisions\/41699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}