(WEDNESDAY, March 12, 2025): The Canadian government announced a plan today to slap tariffs on $29.8 billion worth of American goods to strike back against U.S. President Donald Trump after he imposed punishing tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum early this morning.
The tariffs apply to goods originating from the U.S., which shall be considered as those goods eligible to be marked as a good of the United States. Many of the goods involved are used in the manufacture of RVs and their components.
Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, the government’s point person on Canada–U.S. relations, said Trump’s attack on Canadian industry is “unjustified and unjustifiable” and the government must retaliate as the U.S. inserts “disruption and disorder” into what was once one of the most successful trading relationships in the world. “We will not stand idly by while our iconic steel and aluminum industries are being unfairly targeted,” he said.
These countermeasures are effective as of 12:01 a.m., March 13, 2025, and will remain in place until the U.S. eliminates its tariffs against Canadian steel and aluminum products. Canada’s countermeasures do not apply to U.S. goods that are in transit to Canada on the day on which they come into force.
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All this talk about how tariffs will help the US economy is just that, TALK. Jobs won’t be created here to make up for losses caused by the tariffs. And it won’t help lower the national debt.
The only result will be higher prices and taxes for Americans.
Of course the billionaires enacting this legislation won’t be affected.
I wonder how much Canadian steel, aluminum and other products are used by SpaceX and Tesla.
Bob, are you an economist?
Quite a lot of Canadian steel and aluminum are used in both of the products you mention. These tarrifs on Canadian imports hurt Musk, not help him, you have it backwards.
It took 40 years for the USA to lose 100,000 factories so it may take a little longer than 8 weeks to bring them back, Bob. At the pace we’re going, give it 6 months or so and then let’s talk but so far so good. Here are some wins for you to celebrate.
Gas down .30/gallon.
Illegal Immigration down 98%
Interest rates down almost a point.
Inflation down to under 3%
Eggs down a buck a dozen.
Peace in Ukraine.
Stock market down too but it will come back, it always does.
Gas down because people got tired of the high price and limited their driving. It happens all the time.
Also time of year has a lot to do with it.
I don’t like illegal immigration, but sending all immigrants out of the country is going to hurt farming and construction, especially home building
.
Interest rates go down when people cannot afford to borrow money.
Peace in Ukraine?????
Thousands of government jobs being lost that keep this country running.
Wait until you try to make reservations at a National Park.
The money Musk pays in tariffs is just added on to the cost paid by all Americans. It doesn’t hurt him one bit. NASA will also pay more for use of his rockets!
Peace in Ukraine….1/2 way there. Takes 2 sides but that is still the first 1/2 versus no half for 3 years. At least hostages are almost all home, including from Venezuela…. how did your guy do.
Govt jobs don’t keep the country running, unless your in N. Korea or Venezuela. Govt jobs cost taxpayers money. They drain from the economy if left unchecked. If 90% can work from home, do you really think they are all working 8 hours a day? C’mon Man.
Interest rates…. really… so then higher rates are better? Got it!
Gas down be cause people aren’t driving as much this year? Really? Nothing to do with oil down 10%?
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I didn’t realize we drove less during Spring Break. We drive more this time of year.
Our farmers and construction companies didn’t have a problem before the 4 year Bid*** mistake.
Quit watching CNN and PMSNBC.
By all means focus on newsfarce and faux noise.
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Bob, the U.S. Government is currently at $37T in national debt.
Regardless of income, party affiliation, race, religion or pronoun, the U.S. citizen is and always has been responsible for the debt of the U.S. government.
The citizen can fund government through tax, tariff, fees or fines but regardless of name, the citizen pays.
The solution is simple, the government needs to spend less and collect more. Whether it’s called a tariff or a tax, you will be paying more. The debt is inescapable mate.
First off, we have to quit giving money to other countries. Stop paying off student loans. No one paid for my wife’s or son’s college but us. Hire contractors who do the best quality work for the lowest price. Stop defense contractors from ensuring only their company can manufacture parts for military equipment. I could go on and on.
Vince, you nailed it!!!
I’d add, higher corporate taxes: higher prices OR less investment by corporations to grow our economy.
Funny how all we hear is “billionaire” comments. Trump is also pushing for no tax on SS, no tax on tips, no tax on OT. How many billionaires will benefit from any of those? Those are all directed at the working person to help them. But, as Trump said in his address to the nation, nothing he could ever do would garner him any praise by the left.
And he does not deserve any.
Hum, apparently those news channels you watch aren’t reporting on the billions of capital that is coming here to build factories and create good paying jobs. Also, apparently you haven’t seen the President on TV with those investors talking about all the $$$$$$$ they are investing in the US to avoid the tariffs.
If only this had been done many years ago, maybe Alcoa wouldn’t have shut the local aluminum smelter that provided good paying family jobs Bernie and like keep demanding.
The headline of this story is exactly backwards. Completely opposite what it says.
The FACT is, America is slapping retatiatory tarrifs on Canada in response to the extremely high tarrifs Canada has on the USA for decades…. but your close on this one, RVT, except for being exactly 180 degrees the opposite direction.
You have to remember this is a great RV site, just has the writers that are left leaning. Or to use your words: “but your close on this one, RVT, except for being exactly 180 degrees the opposite direction”. 🙂
Perhaps the authors of this newsletter are NOT left leaning…maybe they are looking for suckers.
No, they are predominantly left leaning. That has been shown over the years I have supported this news letter.
And I’ve always felt they were right leaning.
Please share what has been said that would leave you with that opinion?
Tarrifs = Higher consumer prices. Yet people voted for this because they thought prices were high. Lol.
And yet, Inflation is down and dropping for 8 weeks. Gas is at a new 4 year low too. Not certain that your higher price claim is holding much water but as a talking point, well…. just press on Ron. If you keep saying it, it may come true. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.
The TDS runs strong in that one!
But prices will go down Ron. Trump has been in office for less than 2 months. He is not a miracle worker. I’d say, “give him a chance” but people like you will never do that! It is unfortunate that TDS is so prevalent in so many. Prey tell us how voting for the “alternative” would have been in our best interest? In fact, tell me one accomplishment she made in the 4 years she was VP? I won’t hold my breath.
He “claimed” prices would come down on “day one”…still waiting for “day one”. Liars club deluxe.
Answer my question Ron.
Name “one” accomplishment that she was able to do while VP)
Ah, she was the Vice President, who does not advance bills, so of course she did nothing. What did Pence do? Nothing more than Kamala did. Nothing either.
Agreed.
What does this have to do with RVing? And BTW, you should look up the tariffs Canada has been imposing on American goods for decades. It’s a two-way street. Do some research.
BINGO on both. It is sad people believe the lies they are spoon fed rather than finding out the real facts regarding the situation.
The title implies that Americans created this tariff nightmare. No – it was 1 individual that created problems when they didn’t exist beforehand. Tariffs have to exist but they were at least reasonable with a country that WAS considered a major ally. This whole tariff thing is a major fiasco.
Maybe you don’t understand the circumstances. Canada already had tariffs on US Goods. The US just imposed “reciprocal” Tariffs. Just equalling the amount Canada was charging us! Canada went and increased their Tariffs by 29.8 Billion Dollars against the US. Of course, the US will increase our Tariffs against Canada by the same amount. Again, only equaling the amount Canada is charging us. So there is nothing wrong with what the US is doing with the Tariffs. What is fair, is fair. A country “especially a close trading partner”, that charges us a Tariff, needs to be charged the same amount by us. No, Tariffs do NOT need to exist! It is a choice made by greedy Countries!
No, other countries have created this tariff nightmare and finally the US has some leadership who is not more concerned with lining their pocket and is trying to level the playing field.
Ah, but people like you want a country of burger flippers that the democrats demand be paid a wage to support a family of 4+, or worse yet, a government dependent population.
Look at it this way. Your income is $100k per year, but, you are spending $140k per year to maintain your lifestyle. Not good, right? You are also $763k in debt. In proportionate numbers, that’s the situation this country is in today. There is no easy, painless solution, if there is even a solution at all. God help us, because the politicians certainly haven’t.
Hmm. That’s quite a headline RVTravel. It should be…
“New Canadian Tariffs Slapped on U.S. in Retaliation for America Slapping Canada With Reciprocal Tarriffs”.
There, how’s that?
The tariffs are an act of war and now the entire world hates us. They don’t work! Do your homework.
Some don’t work, some do.
Back in 2015, when candidate Trump stated he would impose large tariffs on China and Mexico, I was immediately pulled into a high level Corporate project, as one of our global supply chain leaders, to determine the actions we would take if candidate Trump became President Trump.
He did, and applied tariffs on China, but not Mexico. We immediately implemented our alternate supply chain strategy for China, pulling out all production. The Mexico plan was never implemented.
Tariffs are NOT an act of war. Like all taxes, they have a desired outcome that may or may not happen. If they are an act of war, Europe has been at war with the U.S. for decades.
Actually Mia, cutting off power to 3 of our States, IS AN ACT OF WAR. Really, it is and I for one am happy that moron Doug Ford backed off. Israel cuts off power to Gaza. Russia cuts off power to some Ukraine cities. That’s WAR.
You see Mia, tarrif negotiations, no matter how ugly they can be has nothing to do with war but cutting off electricity to American cities and states over a trade negotiation….. that could evolve into a hot war, not a trade war.
Good thing Ford backed off of that crazy idea as a negotiation strategy because the boomerang on that would have been real bad. REAL BAD. It was an act of desperation. No cards.
Cancel, I agree 100%. Cutting off power would have turned really ugly.
That said, shame on the U.S. for importing “power” at all in any form. We need to be energy and power independent. We now have a government that believes that, thank goodness.
While Putin is a murderous evil, he said something that was worth listening to: “All these sanctions have been good in the long run. It has taught us to rely on ourselves.”
It is not so much of needing electrical power from Canada, but more how “the grid” works. Believe me, we send a lot of electrical power to Canada, just in different areas than the Northeast.
The only way “free trade” actually works is if all countries drop ALL tariffs!
Mia, Canada has had tariffs of over 200% to near 300% on our American dairy industry for a long, long time. They do allow a certain amount of U.S. dairy products in tariff free, and that amount was increased in the trilateral trade agreement signed in Trump’s first term. But, either we have free trade or we have protectionism. Canada has LONG protected it’s dairy industry.
Our steel and aluminum industries could be considered a national security interest. It has been ravaged by imported steel and aluminum. So, President Trump is implementing 25% tariffs as a protectionist measure.
So, please advise how Canada (who is also in a trade war with China) is somehow more justified?
“Our steel and aluminum industries could be considered a national security interest. It has been ravaged by imported steel and aluminum.”
Not only that, but they provide good paying family jobs! You know, those type of jobs the Democrats keep jumping up and down about. Because of other countries dumping cheap, sometimes foreign government subsidized aluminum on the market, the Alcoa plant in my town shut down even though it had contracts to buy the cheapest electrical power in the nation. They could not compete, paying the wages they did. It hurt a lot of families here.
President Trump only desires a level playing field. Period. $200B/year trade deficit with Canada due to their excessive tariffs is not fair and the only way to balance the equation is to either increase tariffs on Canadian goods or have Canada reduce or eliminate tariffs on American goods. It’s pretty simple math actually.
Do an actual fact check, you might be surprised by the numbers you see!!
Sorry, but Canada does NOT have excessive tariffs. Do your research, rather than get your information from biased sources.
Near 300% on U.S. dairy products, beyond a certain allowed quota, is not excessive? 🤣🤣🤣
Numerous Fact Checker sites verify this.
The increase in tariffs on other countries is long overdue. The only way to bring all of them into fairness is to make all of them the same; 10%. If a country decides to increase their tariff’s, then nobody allows their goods to be bought.
Yup, I kind of laugh at this article’s title. Here, I will fix it:
New Canadian tariffs slapped on U.S. in retaliation for American slapping retaliation tariffs on Canada.
Tariffs are paid by the consumer, so in the end it’s the common man that is hurt.
Tariffs on dumping items at a loss in our country is what they are really for, not tariffs on common goods that end up hurting the US consumer.
Thank you, RV Travel, for sharing news of the inevitable happening. No surprise here, quite predictable, and sad all around. Have a great week and safe travels!