Canada Is Preparing Steel Quotas, Tariffs on China and Others

Fascinating. I've always wanted something to be done about China's trade abuses, particularly dumping, but also the human rights issues. I really don't know enough about trading tariffs but I am very curious: do these tariffs have any chance of improving China's behavior?

This all seems like the runup to the great depression :/

This is all very complex and I'm having a hard time seeing the big picture. There's trade wars, US foreign policy on North Korea (China plays a significant role), and over the last few years a ramping up of discussions on how to avoid the Thucydides trap. It's worth noting here that China and Russia, and potentially Iran are allies. All these things are connected in complex ways and while it's important to look at an issue like the trade war in isolation, I think it's also important to view it in context. And that big picture context is something I'm having a very hard time pulling together. Can anyone recommend some reading that would illuminate this?

If anything as a Canadian I rather see Canada openly and aggressive court China, Russia, EU and Mexico+Brazil as trading partners to significantly reduce dependence on US.<p>Canada needs to understand need of the hour is not to engage in moral-schooling with China and not to support ire-invoking causes in China -- our priority is Canada, Canadian economy and Canadians.<p>For too long our courting of USA and India has resulted in both US and India becoming arrogant towards us when it comes to foreign policy and diplomatic protocols.<p>Finally, as a clear signal, Canada should step up border patrol and aggressively stop any intake of folks fleeing to Canada from USA - US needs to understand Canada is not a dumping ground for their unwanted folks.

Canada was dumping cheap Chinese steel into the US for ever. Just look at the largest seller of Stainless Steel in NA. It&#x27;s an outfit that brings Chinese Stainless Steel into Canada and Mexico and then dumps it into the US.<p>Canada was warned about a year ago that they need to stop this dumping but chose to continue to the last possible day they could (May 31, 2018). On June 1st the Trump administration went ahead with sanctions. The Canadians acted to late and worked with the Chinese for too long. When this was brought up to Canada&#x27;s foreign minister (Chrystia Freeland) and why they didn&#x27;t act sooner, she had no answer.<p>It could have all been avoided.

Try getting moderate and high value MLCC caps on Digikey. Pretty much zero stock on everything. It’s affecting my electronics production. Why the hell would Trump put tariffs on parts where there aren’t even domestic manufacturers?