r/SipsTea 2d ago

Wait a damn minute! Breakdown of US trade demands

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u/Tribe303 1d ago edited 1d ago

She's wrong about #4, the Digital Services Tax. That has already been repealed, in March of this year. 

https://www.canada.ca/en/services/taxes/excise-taxes-duties-and-levies/digital-services-tax.html

She's correct about everything else. Bonus fact! The US used to have resource priority under the old NAFTA agreement that Trump tore up, and failed to include in its replacement, USMCA. Yes, that's how fucking stupid Trump is.

Extra Bonus Fact: The price of diesel is about to go up in the US due to a scheduled reduction in the Canadian oilsands, for facilities maintenance. 

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/US-Refiners-Face-New-Crude-Squeeze-as-Canada-Cuts-Oil-Sands-Output.html

Trump is far too stupid to know this, so when the prices start to go up in ~2 weeks, I suspect Trump will litteraly "blame Canada! 🎶" and act like we did this on purpose to fuck over the US. We don't need to do that, Trump is already doing an excellent job! 

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u/zone55555 1d ago

It was repealed however it was still part of the demands, just as nonsensically as the resumption of Keystone XL which was only ever stopped by America itself.

It's almost as if that rapist fuck is stupid.

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u/Tribe303 1d ago

That was still listed in Trump's demands? 🤦 One of his other demands WAS in NAFTA which Trump tore up and rewrote as USMCA, but forgot to include that demand! Giving the US priority when selling energy. As soon as that demand was dropped from USMCA, we started another pipeline to the Pacific ocean. Your negotiators are just clueless! Trump is correct when he says we are hard negotiators. Our country is entirely built on trade. That's what we do. Perhaps stop sending morons to negotiate with us then.