Trump blasts 'spoiled' Canada and Mexico over NAFTA talks

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/trumps-tariffs-nb-not-immune-1.4690478

New Brunswick not immune to Trump's tariffs, says manufacturing sector official

Province's imports of steel, aluminum increased in past years

Jordan Gill · CBC News · Posted: Jun 04, 2018 1:03 PM AT

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David Amos

Methinks Mr. Marcolin should ignore Mindless Mr. Melanson the latest local Minister responsible for trade policy and and check my work in the USA and Canada going back to 2001. All he has to do to begin is Google the following and start surfing the Internet N'esy Pas?

Ron Trump NAFTA Wilbur Ross David Amos

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/trump-auto-workers-1.4674280

White House launches investigation to determine if auto imports have hurt U.S. national security

Thomson Reuters · Posted: May 23, 2018 10:42 AM ET

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Richard Sharp

"Trump blasts Canada..." blares the headline. "Canada has been very difficult to deal with" is what Trump actually told reporters.

Big difference.

Michael Murphy

@William Ben It's not Trudeau's job to give in to Trump, we didn't elect him to do that, despite Harper's advice to do just that

Play hardball

Trump said the other day there was no deal, now he's saying one is close, good news coming soon

Trudeau was right, what's the problem?

David Amos

@Michael Murphy "Play hardball" ???

Methinks that you and everybody know that I play hardball all day long N'esy Pas?

Anyone can Google

Trump NAFTA FATCA Amos

and call his his cell to ask the POTUS lawyer Mr Cohen if I am joking

Fred Rickert

@Jim Oxener

Does anybody know what's going on with Trump? Does Trump even know?

David Amos

@Fred Rickert Methinks you should have read my comment posted above N'esy Pas?

 

Eric V. Zepplin

more 'dribble" coming from the mouth that roared , if the Yanks don't have their way they'll argue the whole time till they get their way , it is afterall the American way , just you remember that when it comes to June 12th summit meeting with Kim ,NFTA is just a side show

David Amos

@Eric V. Zepplin Methinks its High Time that Superman in pursuit of Truth Justice and the American Way made an appearance in the Oval Office and read the nasty Yankee Mr. Trump and his cohorts the riot act N'esy Pas?

 

Brent Grywinski

So I guess Trump expects Canada and Mexico to just roll over and agree to anything he demands? Uh, no! The problem is Trump has never had to compromise on anything in his life. Sorry, Donald, this is the real world. Reality sometimes stinks.

Maria Stellato

@Brent Grywinski His success proves he is in the real world and not living in a basement.

Michael Murphy

@Maria Stellato His $300m inheritance?

yeah we all got that, only he succeeded

Richard Sharp

@Carson Brook

The CIA and the rest of the Deep State would have preferred Hillary who was so bloodthirsty she joked about Gaddafi's gruesome, pre-arranged murder: "We came, we saw, he's dead."

Trump is way too unpredictable for these folks but they appear to be at least in truces, except for Mueller.

David Amos

@Richard Sharp True

David Amos

@Mitchell Irwin Methinks that Trump ain't had much luck draining the swamp either N'esy Pas?

Margaret Bricknell

@David Amos
Sorry- I have to block you. Can't take the 'n'esy pas' any more.

David Amos

@Margaret Bricknell So you are the one I complain of to CBC N'esy Pas?

 

Chris Messer

Just like he won with China. This guy's hot air has no end, please US vote him out in 2 years

David Amos

@Andrew Clarkson The Donald" said

"NAFTA is very difficult. Mexico has been very difficult to deal with. Canada has been very difficult to deal with … but I will tell you that in the end we win," Trump told reporters at the White House. "We will win, and we'll win big."

Methinks its high time that Trudeau "The Younger" take the Yankee's hint and pick up his toys and come home. N'esy Pas?

Rick Wier

@David Amos Yankee go home

David Amos

@Rick Wier "Yankee go home" ???

Methinks you have a little studying to do N'esy Pas?

 

Karen King

@David Amos

what's with the N'esy Pas bud, making fun of the French?? Or you just got it wrong and refuse to fix it?

 

Oliver Watler

Canada has been very difficult to deal with?? If you can't get along with Canada then there's something wrong with you.

David Amos

@Oliver Watler Methinks there no need to make a deal with a crooked Yankee who will go back on his word in a heartbeat N'esy Pas?

 

Mark Tyson

Canada has been taking advantage ? What a buffon .

David Amos

@Mark Tyson "Canada has been taking advantage ? What a buffon ."

Methinks most folks know that Trump has quite likely never even read NAFTA or FATCA N'esy Pas?

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David Amos

@Fred Rickert So you say but it got a rise out you N'esy Pas?

David Amos

@Fred Rickert What say you quit worrying about my expressions and simply Google the following?

Trump NAFTA FATCA Amos

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Emmi Ward

@David Amos thank you for your email this is an automated response

David Amos

@Emmi Ward "thank you for your email this is an automated response"

Methinks you should ask Minister Bill Morneau and Mean Mikey Cohen about my lawsuit like I did N'esy Pas?

 

Matt Bruce

Dear Donald: get bent.

David Amos

@Matt Bruce Methinks he is already bent If he gets bent again maybe it will straighten him out N'esy Pas?

 

George Abbott

Like I said from the start, these talks from the onset was doomed, the Canadian negotiating team should do the right thing and withdraw from the talks and come back home to Canada. We don't need to kowtow to any bully. We are a sovereign country with values, pride and negotiate in good faith. This fiasco has been a waste of Canadian taxpayers money. Wishful thinking on our part but it was futile.

David Amos

@George Abbott "the Canadian negotiating team should do the right thing and withdraw from the talks and come back home to Canada."

YUP

Donald Patrick

@David Amos Sure, and watch a couple hundred thousand auto industry jobs disappear. great strategy!!

David Amos

@Donald Patrick Methinks there was a lot more folks working within the aforesaid industry BEFORE NAFTA N'esy Pas?

David Amos

@David Amos After all this is a comment of mine that you just buried within another thread N'esy Pas?

"Play hardball" ???

Methinks that you and everybody know that I play hardball all day long N'esy Pas?

Anyone can Google

Trump NAFTA FATCA Amos

and call his his cell to ask the POTUS lawyer Mr Cohen if I am joking

  

George Kapotto

Do you suppose Dumold understands that saying, "We will keep pushing until we get a one sided deal that is only good for the USA" is kind of self-defeating?

David Amos

@George Kapotto Nope

 

Andrew McLaren

Trump is not arguing from an advantageous position. Under his Presidency, the USA is becoming an international outcast, certainly in the context of Trade negotiations, where he has left American representatives on constant alert, scrambled backtracking, and "he means something completely different this afternoon" announcements, usually. Greatness ! ! ! for POTUS 45, is essentially a foghorn of guess-my-bluff.

David Amos

@Andrew McLaren "POTUS 45, is essentially a foghorn of guess-my-bluff."

Methinks there is no need to guess if we already know he is bluffing N'esy Pas?

John Thompson

I have no problem with a leader of a country to try to position himself in a better light when it comes to negotiating trade agreements. That said, for Trump to say mexico and Canada have been difficult is an absolute fallacy. He continues to demonstrate his loose interpretation of the facts...

Martin Oram

@John Thompson

He continues to demonstrate his loose interpretation of Reality.

David Amos

@John Thompson Methinks its a fact that 30 years ago the liberals like Trump were against NAFTA N'esy Pas?

http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2653709009

October 25, 1988

An invigorated John Turner takes on Brian Mulroney over his controversial free trade deal with the U.S.

David Amos

@Martin Oram Methinks its a strange Reality that 30 years later that the liberals would enlist Mulroney to do their bidding in Washington N'esy Pas?

http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1149921347876

January 30, 2018

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney tells a U.S. Senate committee that a renegotiated NAFTA must be good for all partners, not just perfect for one.

New Brunswick not immune to Trump's tariffs, says manufacturing sector official

Province's imports of steel, aluminum increased in past years

Jordan Gill · CBC News · Posted: Jun 04, 2018 1:03 PM AT

 

The Trump administration announced on May 31 they would be implementing a tariff on aluminum and steel imports to the U.S. from Canada. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)


New Brunswick won't be spared financial pain stemming from the Trump administration's decision to impose tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum exports, according to a manufacturing industry official.

Ron Marcolin, the divisional vice-president of the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters Association for New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, said the hardest hit industries will be those that manufacture products using steel and aluminum as the Trudeau government plans to introduce retaliatory tariffs on American steel and aluminum exports.

"Those are companies that are in the metalworking industry, clearly use metal in their products," said Marcolin.

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Marcolin said the amount of steel and aluminum imported into the province is growing.

"You're talking north of $32-35 million a year as of last year's imports on steel and $20 million roughly in aluminum and that number has gone up double over the last seven years or so," said Marcolin.

Trade war on horizon?

On May 31, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced a 25 per cent tariff on steel and a 10 per cent tariff on aluminum imported to the U.S. from Canada.

That same day Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland announced a dollar-for-dollar tariff on steel and aluminum imports from the U.S.

There will now be a 25 per cent tariff on steel and a 10 per cent tariff on aluminum imported to the U.S. from Canada. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)

 

 

This has sparked fears of a trade war between Canada and the U.S., and New Brunswick's minister responsible for trade policy, Roger Melanson, said the moves bring the increasingly volatile trade relationship with the U.S. to "another level."

"It puts a lot of uncertainty for sure when it comes to exports and access to the U.S. market," said Melanson.

Melanson said it's difficult to say what the effects of these new tariffs will have on New Brunswick business.

"It is early; they announced it last week. We are working very closely with the business community, we are working very closely with the federal government," said Melanson.

Business, consumers to pay

Marcolin said there will be pain felt by businesses, especially those who have bid on projects with the expectation that materials would be a certain price, an expectation now shattered with the announcement of tariffs.

"When you're now dealing internally with the contract that you're sort of in the middle of building, as it were, that's very concerning because now you might not even make money on the contract that you bid on," said Marcolin.

Marcolin said it's an issue of when, not if, consumers feel the pain because of tariffs. (Kacper Pempel/Reuters )

 

 

He said eventually this pain will be felt by everyone in the province.

"There's no winner here. It will obviously trickle down to [consumers] when [they] go to buy products in New Brunswick. It's just a matter of when that will happen," said Marcolin.

The Canadian government has announced possible tariffs on several other goods from the U.S., 
including pizza, chocolate and whiskey. 

While the long list of proposed products to put tariffs on may seem random, Marcolin said the list actually makes strategic sense.

Information Morning - Fredericton

Trade Tariff Tiff effect on NB

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Roger Melanson, Minister responsible for trade policy and Ron Marcolin, divisional vice-president of the Canada Manufacturers and Exporters Association for N.B. and P.E.I. speak with Terry. They discuss how the U.S. and Canadian dispute could effect New Brunswick businesses and consumers. 14:46

 

 

"The states in which those are produced in the U.S. are states that have very political clout," said Marcolin.

"You sort of sting them where it hurts and those are the states that really mean a lot to Trump."
Canada's tariffs on American products will begin on July 1.

Trump blasts 'spoiled' Canada and Mexico over NAFTA talks

White House launches investigation to determine if auto imports have hurt U.S. national security

Thomson Reuters · Posted: May 23, 2018 10:42 AM ET 

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media before departing the White House for a trip to New York on Wednesday. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday railed against Mexico and Canada's efforts in renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), saying both neighbours have been "very difficult."

"NAFTA is very difficult. Mexico has been very difficult to deal with. Canada has been very difficult to deal with … but I will tell you that in the end we win," Trump told reporters at the White House. "We will win, and we'll win big.

"We'll get along with Mexico, we'll get along with Canada. But I will tell you, they have been very difficult to deal with.  They're very spoiled — because nobody has done this. But I will tell you that what they ask for is not fair."


Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters in Ottawa Wednesday that progress was being made on the deal and that she would continue to stand up for Canada's interests at the table.

"Let me be very clear, first and foremost with Canadians, that the government of Canada, the prime minister and I personally will always be absolutely resolute in our defence of the Canadian national interest, all the time, and very particularly during these NAFTA negotiations," she said.

"I have described Canada's position, I think at some length, and people can judge which adjectives they choose to apply to that position," Freeland said when asked about Trump's comments about Canada.



Later in the day, the U.S. Commerce Department launched a national security investigation into auto imports and whether they threaten the U.S. industry's health and ability to develop new technologies.

The probe could lead to new U.S. tariffs — similar to those imposed on imported steel and aluminum in March — and appeared to follow up on a remark Trump made on Twitter on Wednesday, when he promised "big news" for the auto sector.

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The White House declined to comment, and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative referred queries to the White House.

Automakers scrambled after the tweet to get details. Some of them speculated that Trump could be referring to trade with the European Union.

In a meeting earlier this month with major automakers, Trump threatened to impose tariffs of 20 or 25 per cent on EU-built vehicles, according to three people briefed on the talks.

On Wednesday evening, the White House issued a statement saying U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was initiating an investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to determine "whether imports of automobiles and automotive parts threaten to impair" U.S. national security.

"There is evidence suggesting that, for decades, imports from abroad have eroded our domestic auto industry," said Secretary Ross in a statement.

The investigation will look at the impact of imports of not just automobiles and parts, but SUVs and light trucks as well.

Section 232 was also used to slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports earlier this year. The notice did not single out any country or automotive brand as a target.

Trump has repeatedly criticized the large trade imbalance on autos between the United States and the EU. In March, he threatened in a tweet to "simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S."

The United States imposes a 2.5 per cent tariff on cars assembled in Europe and a 25 per cent tariff on European-built vans and pickup trucks. Europe imposes a 10 per cent tariff on U.S.-built cars.

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Auto trade has been a big sticking point in talks between the United States, Mexico and Canada as they try to update NAFTA.

The United States and Mexico have been deadlocked over U.S. demands for wage increases in the auto sector and for a boost in North American content in cars. Last week, the top U.S. trade official said the three countries were "nowhere close to a deal."

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At the same time, Washington and South Korea are working to finalize language in an updated U.S.-Korean Free Trade Agreement.

Under an agreement in principle, South Korea agreed to an extension of a 25 per cent U.S. tariff on pickup trucks for another 20 years until 2041. These were due to begin phasing out in 2019, causing concerns that South Korea would soon begin exporting pickup trucks to the United States.

Trump hinted at the possibility of "good news" on trade with South Korea during a meeting on Tuesday with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

"We will have some pretty good news, I think, on trade," he told reporters as the two leaders sat down.