If Trump starts a trade war with Mexico and Canada, where will Americans get all their stuff from?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/economy/trade-trump-tariffs-mexico-canada/index.html

by newzee1

20 comments

  1. Ya know, maybe this is a good thing? Our culture is to materialistic as it is. Let’s stop buying cheap crap.

  4. People should go threw their stuff and see how much of it was adequate in Mexico and Canada, I promise you it’s not much

    There are commodities yeah but your day to day stuff for an the avg consumer won’t notice. For businesses they will switch suppliers most likely.

    It is strange that we do not discuss the deficits the Canada is running that at the end of the day we have to subsidize

  6. It’s gonna be a good 4 years.

    just think, you get to post bullshit article like this every day for the next 4 years, and you still won’t ever be right.

    Hope this helps.

  9. Uh, maybe we just go ahead and make stuff ourselves again, like we used to?

    You can see it with our sanctions (lots of them!) – we try to wall off other nations from trade and end up doing them a favor because they develop their own industries, become more independent, and less vulnerable to trade wars/sanctions.

    But beyond that, trade still happens in a trade war. The idea that cross-border commerce will somehow cease is just paranoid fantasy.

  11. China, …. O no wait he was planning on starting one with them aswel, maybe his friend putler ?

  14. Trade war with Canada would be absolute idiocy. What even would be the reason to sever relations with a long-standing US ally?

  16. Nowhere… with all these other economic “policies” they are suggesting most Americans won’t be able to buy anything 😂

  17. A) It won’t happen
    B) if it does, tarrifs and protectionist policies are actually really good for a country when done well. Every rich country today including the US for their start using protectionist policies including tarrifs..

    Think of it this way, if you trade your time for labor when you’re 18, you’ll feel you’re rich compared to your college friends who are eating ramen. But fast forward 10 years and your friend is a tech worker with 5 years xp making 200K a year and you’re still flipping burgers at Mickey D making 35K.

    In the short term, it’s great to get cheap stuff from abroad, but the reality is we need to invest in ourselves to be able to contribute meaningfully to the world market.

    As of late American contributions have been dwindling and almost entirely gone in the area of manufacturing. That’s why the chips act exists (not Biden’s baby btw, it’s the intelligence agencies baby that started during the trump admin by chance).

    I feel just chips are not enough. America needs to contribute in a big way to the global market to maintain economic hegemony because right now our entire hegemony is built on our dollar supremacy. If BRICS overtakes, we will find out very quickly that we have nothing substantial to offer the market except for predatory loans to developing countries and war. 

    China on the other hand has been shoring up innovation and manufacturing in a huge way. Most things everyone owns are made in China. That’s our competition. 

  18. And that’s the conundrum. Because it’s not just knickknacks, it’s also raw materials to make stuff. And there might be rare earth materials that you can only get certain places making the price of things go way up.

    I don’t know why we can’t just let the free market work.

  20. We’ll get goods from the same places we always get them from, but it’ll just be more expensive.

    You can’t just stop supply chains on a dime like that. It’s not how it works…

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