Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout

Re:Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic ... by lreeves on Friday April 04, 2025 @09:39PM (#43589698)

We (Canada) literally signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement for trade in 2020... with Donald Trump. Trump this February said "Who would ever sign a thing like this?" and proceeded to make up the story about fentanyl coming from Canada as a pretense to ignore this deal. So there was certainly more than a pinky promise.

Additionally your senate just signed law to repeal the tariffs against Canada specifically so I don't know what other receipts or paperwork you'd like here. Not that I expect Trump to adhere to that of course, but I've never heard the perspective of "well these weren't signed agreements" for things that clearly were.

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Re:Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic ... by mtgentry on Friday April 04, 2025 @09:54PM (#43589803)

Yep, he’s doing to other countries what he’s done to contractors, plumbers, and other tradesmen for years.

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Re:Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic ... by vkou on Friday April 04, 2025 @10:07PM (#43589912)

> Additionally your senate just signed law to repeal the tariffs against Canada specifically so I don't know what other receipts or paperwork you'd like here.

That bill won't pass the crazy house, but yes, CUSMA was signed law.

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Re:Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic ... by ttyprintk on Friday April 04, 2025 @11:41PM (#43590511)

There is a technicality in normal times, though: ratifying treaties negotiated by the President only need to pass the Senate.

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