The agreement is what trade watchers call a “snap back” deal. Yes, the tariffs were removed. But the U.S. reserved the right to slap them back on — specifically, “in the event that imports of aluminum or steel products surge meaningfully beyond historic volumes of trade over a period of time.”
Freeland has been asked to define a “surge” and couldn’t. Her spokesperson said later that Canada’s hope was that this part of the agreement would never be used.
And there’s more.
Freeland was half way around the victory lap by the time CBC got its pants on.
So the length of a victory lap is proportional to an IQ?
Freeland has been asked to define a “surge” and couldn’t. Her spokesperson said later that Canada’s hope was that this part of the agreement would never be used.
What do you expect from a negotiating team that brings a squirt gun to a nuke fight, figuring that harping about gender balances and carbon footprints will give them what they wanted? (“The thteel hath to be made in millth that have 50 per thent women….. becauthe itth 2019.”)
I noticed something in the photo which she’s in. She’s not quite properly dressed to be in an industrial facility. Her hair should have been tied back and tucked under her hardhat, regardless of where in the plant she was going to be. It may mess up her hairdo but it’s a better than having to go to a hospital and having her scalp sown back on or having it catch fire if she’s close to where there are hot sparks flying around.
“Freeland has been asked to define a “surge” and couldn’t.”
Well I’ll help the dumpy little troll out: A “surge” would be if Canada whored itself out to the chinese again and allowed itself to the the conduit for cheap chinese steel trying to circumvent trade barriers and enter the US.
A surge is when he is pressing against your tonsils.
“better than having to go to a hospital and having her scalp sown back on or having it catch fire if she’s close to where there are hot sparks flying around.”
Better for her, or better for us? I sense a potential conflict here.
Would have been worth it to restart the days without an accident clock.
Central planning is important…so long as it isn’t communist central planning. heh
Jeremiah 17:5-6 KJV
(5) Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
(6) For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Hard hat and safety glasses. Hair flowing open toe shoes and a pencil skirt…… yah she’s ready for work.
What hypocrisy. But I guess the workers at the plant noticed that.
It doesn’t matter what the libranos do they can’t get it right with the gang that couldn’t shoot straight.
A significant victory for Canadian transgender aluminum.
Or something.
I guess if you ignore the fact that the US tariffs on Canadian products had to do with “Canadian products” being little more that Chinese products cross docked and mislabeled in Canada……
Chinese products cross-docked and mislabeled in Canada.
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The Canadian Industrial Complex will charge more for the Chinese products at home, and pass any loss over to Dustbin for a tax increase.
enjoy…
That’s a lie, and that never should have mattered anyway. Nothing wrong with Chinese steel.
It would seem you know all about it. Must be because your head is full of it.
Then use Chinese steel for yourself.
“The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says a Chinese fabricator was picked because the two American companies approached for the project lacked the manufacturing space, special equipment and financial capacity to do the job. But the United Steelworkers claims it quickly found two other American bridge fabricators, within 100 miles of New York City, that could do the job.
The real problem with this deal is that it doesn’t take into account all of the additional costs that buying “Made in China” brings to the American table. In fact, this failure to consider all costs is the same problem we as consumers face every time we choose a Chinese-made product on price alone — a price that is invariably cheaper.
Consider the safety issue: a scary one, indeed, because China has a very well-deserved reputation for producing inferior and often dangerous products. Such products are as diverse as lead-filled toys, sulfurous drywall, pet food spiked with melamine and heparin tainted with oversulfated chondroitin sulfate.
In the specific case of bridges, six have collapsed across China since July 2011. The official Xinhua news agency has acknowledged that shoddy construction and inferior building materials were contributing factors. There is also a cautionary tale much closer to home.
When California bought Chinese steel to renovate and expand the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, for a project that began in 2002, problems like faulty welds by a Chinese steel fabricator delayed the project for months and led to huge cost overruns. Those delays eroded much of the savings California was banking on when it opted for the “cheap” Chinese steel. ”
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/opinion/the-price-of-made-in-china.html
Nothing wrong with it, except for that massive order for the Johnson St Bridge, which was defective and had to be recast.
But who’s counting, dunme?
https://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/steel-problems-delay-johnson-street-bridge-completion-to-2017-1.1740195
I don’t know what pics some of you have been viewing but the ones I just saw at the link showed a bunch of dumb bastards grinning because they were in a photo -op with Justin Trudeau. And the guys surrounding Freeland are no better. They probably all believe Trudeau and Freeland have saved their jobs.
All the steelworkers will vote Liberal now. FFS!
Man of steel. Ha!
More like Slag Lady and Spelter Boy.
Spelter Boy
Is that because you figure he has a certain–ahem–“zincing” feeling? (ducking old shoes thrown in my direction)
http://www.wanksock.com/
I know what I am buying for Christmas, for any Liberal that I can find …
So this “deal” applies quotas and team Sockmonkey doesn’t like that.
But has no problem with supply management.
From the beginning of the NAFTA reset,I have been astounded by the Liberals and their slavering sycophants in our media,they keep proclaiming “Victory” over “Orange Man Bad”.
As we Canadians keep getting kicked in the ass,the stupid of our elites is so absurd,I find myself cheering for President Trump.
What was that historic quote?
“One more victory like this…”
After NAFTA there came the US,China reset, our very same “experts” seem unable to understand Tariffs and why they work as a negotiating tool.
More Orange Man Bad.
Do any of these “experts” remember when “Made In Japan” or “Made in Korea” were the low end goods of the day?
If China wants to play tough, “Made in India” will become the mainstay of the chain stores.
Or whoever has the manufacturing plant to snap up the slack.
Then Japan and South Korea got it together and started making better stuff. I certainly doubt that Japanese workers are mistreated as they are in China and North Korea.
What some have overlooked is that Justin had to get his Chinese bosses mad by giving into Trump.
The lapdog media embarrasses themselves, with their PomPom routine for PM Beta and his silly minions, including that horrid Freeland, a clueless vapid ass. But, the media loves her, for reasons unknown.
The media in this country is unwatchable.
Ezra has a recent YT vid where he discusses amongst other things, the demographics of who watches the news, and the demo of his subscribers.
It turns out, the majority of viewers watching TV news are over 60. My impression, by the way the talking heads speak, is they are talking to people as if the6 are under 10, or over 80 and going senile. I just want to throw a brick at the TV, instead, why listen to these morons? They just read the script that they are overpaid to do. Do they realize how stupid they appear?
No one can define a ‘surge’. It’s the kind of vague BS designed to justify whatever a pol wants to do when they want to do it. See also ‘assault weapon’
China is our enemy. They must be systematically removed from any investments held in any key infrastructure components. That includes metals, chemicals, IT components and military components. Once they become a representative democracy, they can be allowed back in. Until then, they need to be economically ostracized, boycotted, tariffed and taxed back to the stone age.
I tried to get the feds under Harper to block the sale of Nexen to China back in the day. They wouldn’t listen. My neighbour’s kid was one of hundreds layed-off when Nexen changed hands.
The CPC gets none of my money now due to that decision as well as their reluctance to kill off the CBC.
China truly is the enemy.