There is an old one Cliché If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. Alliances change here with the political winds.
The good news for Canada is that there is new evidence that there are currently allies with tariffs. People speak in horror about the threat to hit them on the break on the break.
The election of US President Donald Trump for trade tsar received ear meat on Thursday during his hearing to confirm the Senate, and as legislators, stories from concerned voters forwarded.
The bad news? The loudest objections came from Democrats, which in this city have about as much as a teacup poodle, at least until next year next year.
Nevertheless, her pushback, paired with republican discomfort, signaled one: large tariffs in Canada are seen as a political type. Nobody supported them in the hearing.
“America has its first taste of Trump’s rancid trade policy this week”: Democrat Ron Wyden contributed to starting the hearing on Thursday.
“His tariff bluff has created great uncertainty that costs American business. In my view, it is an abuse of the (our trade) law.”
It is important to consider recapture his constitution Role about the trade. The hearing on Thursday did not signal any upcoming measures – it was a political weather that shows in what way politics blows.
And the message to Trump’s sales representative, Jamieson Greer, was emphatically: Do not apply ceiling tariffs to Canada. The Republicans welcome it at most as a negotiating tactic, useful as a lever, but not as politics.
Several Republicans said that. Instead of directly questioning their party’s undisputed chiefs, they quoted subtle concerns.
Greer avoided taking an attitude to the tariffs in Canada in the future.
Jamieson Greer, the election of US President Donald Trump for the sales representative, questioned how the US -OM February 6, with a “standard trade policy” Let Liberalize everything “could have competitive trade conditions with a” standard trading policy “Let liberalized everything”.
As the former head of Stab of Trump’s first sales representative Robert Lighthizer, Greer spoke about why the United States had turned away from liberalized trade as a default position.
He suffocated as he talked about his parents who live in a mobile home and worked several jobs to make ends meet.
He set the manufacturing jobs redesigned as a moral company and also strategic to protect supply chains in an increasingly unstable world.
“America should be a country of producers. We are more than just what we consume,” said Greer and criticized the previous trade policy.
He made it clear that an early priority will be newly negotiated aspects of the Canadian US agreement according to legally prescribed agreements. While the countries have a decade to renew it, Trump intends to move quickly.
At his hearing to confirm the US Senate on February 6, the candidate of the sales representative Jamieson Greer said that the Americans were more than what they consume, and the supply chains must be resistant to national security.
He quoted known Trump concerns regarding the existing pact. On this list are the Calculation method What counts as a North American car and dairy.
“I assume that we will take a second look at Usmca,” said Greer and at the same time attributes the success of the pact.
Anecdotes from the states
The adaptation of trade policy, like his mentor Lighthizer, is now the dominant position in US policy, and there is a lot of support on the Capitol Hill.
There are some legislators that politics is no longer managed by trading professionals like Greer, but by Trump’s freewheel crew.
For example, high-ranking Republicans Chuck Grassley Greer essentially asked: Who calls the recordings here, you or trade secretary Howard Lutnick, whom Trump named as his tariff point person?
Some senators reminded Greer that his office is legally responsible for monitoring trade and is responsible Committee.
Greer through the delicate official policy on tiptoe: he pointed out that different offices do different things and that the departments of trade and finance ministries play a role in retaliation.
The Democrats came with concerns.
Nevada’s Senator there spoke about a fall into Canadian tourism, a special concern for her state, which also includes Las Vegas. With the speech of a boycott and a copied Canadian dollar, she said that she is worried about the effects there.
She quoted one treasure From the US Travel Association that a decline in Canadian trips by 10 percent would cost the American economy over 2 billion US dollars for lost expenses and 14,000 jobs. A similar drop from Mexico would double this damage.
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The same senator, Catherine Cortez Masto, then spoke about a call she received from a small company in Reno. A Canadian customer had canceled a contract due to the uncertainty and cost the business of tens of thousands of dollars.
“What do I say about my shops?” She asked Greer. When Greer replied that the people should trust Trump’s trade policy because they collapsed with rising income and low inflation in his first term.
“So, these little companies, I just have to tell you: ‘Unfortunately, you will be a victim of the trade war. Sow it up. It’s better for the country’?” She replied.
“I’m not sure if this is an answer that I want to bring back to you. … it has to be common sense.”
Jeanne Shaheen from New Hampshire spoke about tariffs that costs the heating of home.
Peter Welch said the blue threats of tariffs from Vermont, “he said.
The GOP dances delicious
Minnesotas Tina Smith ruthlessly called Trump’s behavior. She said she supported some types of tariffs, but would combat a wide range in Canada and Mexico that harm their voters: “The floor is cut out of them.”
The Republicans danced a little more delicious.
“I am not against tariffs. I just think that the tariffs are concerned with the tariffs, for the sake of the tariffs, I’m not quite as sure, gas issuers like China.
“I’m not sure how the law is applied.”
Ron Johnson from Wisconsin warned that when “we start to hit steel,” he said, the manufacturers in his state will still need certain types that are not made in the USA How much income Customs would actually generate for the United States
“I just don’t see it. I am an accountant. I like paying,” said Johnson.
Greer replied that the tariffs would not replace all tax revenue, since the US government is now much larger than it was than the federal taxes initially Introduced in 1913.
But really, the most creative criticism of a passive aggression-Kam from Thom Tillis by North Carolina.
It is worth mentioning Challenge -and criticize Donald Trump too explicitly the risk of being a career end step. Especially since it is one of the most moderate Members of his caucus.
Therefore, Tillis Trump adds to his creative ideas to force unruly allies to correct their stubborn politics.
He said about Canada: “It is necessary to draw her attention. Because they behave like irritated children … … they take us for granted.”
What followed was one of the subtle that they should have so subtly to catch them.
Tillis said it was obvious that tariffs are targeted and generally not be sprayed beyond the economy. “Everyone has this wrong narrative that we will make blunt tariffs across the board. It is illogical.”
Wherever, wherever people get this stupid idea that Trump intends to apply tariffs across the board to products all over the world?
Perhaps it goes from his specific promise to do exactly that on his campaign platform and in every campaign speech and in his latest published commands in China, Mexico and Canada.
In contrast to China, he has the tariffs in Mexico and Canada. And judging the mood on the Capitol Hill, the American legislators hope to stay during the break forever.
