{"id":168087,"date":"2025-04-01T16:57:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=168087"},"modified":"2025-04-01T16:57:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:57:28","slug":"canada-responds-to-trump-with-tariffs-on-manatee-meat-flamethrowers-and-other-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=168087","title":{"rendered":"Canada responds to Trump with tariffs on manatee meat, flamethrowers, and other items"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In response to President Trump’s tariffs on Canadian products, Canada imposed a 25 percent tariff on approximately 1,800 American products. Examples on the list include false beards, church bell cases, passenger drones and live monkeys. If you’re a Canadian and want to purchase accordion parts, bovine semen, and emus, you’ll have to pay more. Canada also purchased billboard advertisements in red states and in Washington D.C. saying that tariffs are a tax on hardworking Americans. Half of these billboards were in French.<\/p>\n

From Breitbart:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Canadians will soon find themselves paying more for imported American accordion parts, emus, bovine semen, and clothing made with asbestos fibers. Toronto residents who dreamed of reaching the stars with an American-made spaceship will pay 25 percent more to make their dreams come true. Ottawa diarists will have to pay 25 percent more if they want to record their daily adventures in a diary imported from the United States.<\/p>\n

“Why would you list such a plethora of small, obscure products? I think it’s being driven by the need to produce visible optics, and so they can say, ‘Look, we’ve got 6,200 (items), we’re really going at this, we’re really sticking it to Donald Trump and the Americans,” said professor Ian Lee of the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University.<\/p>\n

“These are not consumer goods that are turning over in high volumes. They’re low-volume purchases, which tells me they’re going to have a small impact on Canadians if only a small number are buying them on any given day,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I will say, manatee meat isn’t something we can make ourselves, but I don’t think it will create too much of a backlash from Canadian consumers,” University of Regina economics professor Jason Childs wryly noted.<\/p>\n

Childs may be underselling the pain that will soon be faced by Canadian gourmands, as not only imported manatee meat will be socked with higher tariffs but also American-grown camel and primate meat. Canada’s fledgling camel-burger industry will tremble on the verge of extinction.<\/p>\n

Of course, not everything getting hit with retaliatory tariffs is a bizarre niche product, and Canada is employing other strategies to fight the trade war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hayward, J. (2025, March 31). Canada slaps tariffs on flamethrowers, manatee meat, fake beards, and live monkeys in response to Trump. Breitbart<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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