President Donald Trump signed an executive order authorizing the tariffs Saturday, which will go into effect Tuesday, consisting of a 25% additional tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10% tariff on imports from China.
Energy resources from Canada will have a lower 10% tariff, according to the White House. In a statement obtained by Fox News Saturday, the Trump administration said the legislation is a response to an "extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl, (that) constitutes a national emergency."
George W. Bush started a shooting war in Iraq based on Hussein harboring Al Qaeda in that country. DemoNazi neocons like HIllary KKKlinton supported that war, (one which THE DONALD opposed.)
The Trump administration put the tariffs in place to force the three countries to stop the spread and manufacturing of fentanyl, in addition to pressuring Canada and Mexico to limit any illegal immigration into the United States.
The official did not provide specific benchmarks that could be met to lift the new tariffs, saying only that the best measure would be fewer Americans dying from fentanyl addition.
Read more: WH: Trump Imposes Tariffs on Imports From Mexico, Canada, China | Newsmax.com
Tom Homan has dredged out over 7400 illegal alien animals over the past 9 days, and THESE WERE ALL DANGEROUS CRIMINALS.
Unelected Joe let TEN MILLION of these animals in the country.That's larger than the population of the state of New Jersey.
These animals have been coming from Mexico and Canada. Fentanyl has been coming from China.
Those are ACTS OF WAR,the number of DEATHS in this country from Fentanyl alone.
For those of you who somehow want to believe these farting cows
when they say the tariffs will cause items to increase in price, maybe you should grow a brain for a moment.
1. Trump is going to ramp up domestic energy production (which unelected Joe shut down) so within nine months or so gasoline prices will plummet and the cost of transporting goods will drop.
2.Not getting an item from ONE country (that is threatening our security) doesn't mean we can't get that product from another country or manufacture it in the United States. Some builders depend on Canadian Timber. Gee! They'll just have to buy AMERICAN timber.
3. Mexican made cars? A 15 percent tariff? Gee! Talk to the United Auto Workers union in Detroit about all those extra jobs in making AMERICAN AUTOMOBILES. Ask any laid off auto worker in Detroit if he truly enjoys flipping burgers for McDonalds.
4. And again, Canada, Mexico And China have committed acts of WAR against this country for sending those illegal aliens here along with the drugs that have killed MILLIONS.
Maybe a Democrat would have threatened them with a military incursion. PRESIDENT TRUMP is going to get results like a businessman.
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We can debate whether Canada and Mexico are responsible for the fentanyl but the tariffs are absolutely nothing to do with that.
On the subject of neocons (who are not suggesting invading Mexico or Canada) I ask you this:
Did you vote for them?
I ask because the American right (including neocons) were instrumental in bringing about globalised neoliberalism. You now say that this is the problem and better late than never.
Given how much of a hardcore conservative you are: I'd place a bet that you voted for Reagan and both Bushes. If I'm wrong about you personally, I am right about the majority of MAGA.
@Burnley123 The conservative Cato Institute studied fentanyl traffic closely and concluded that. Most fentanyl is smuggled in by US citizens thru legal border crossings. That's right, the drug gangs mostly hire US citizens to be their mules; NOT undocumented immigrants.
They also concluded that tightening the border backfired, because fentanyl, being much more compact, replaced many other smuggled drugs.
See my post with more from the Cato Institute study as well as links.
@Reason10 I see, you're going down the route of the genetic fallacy, rejecting the data because you disagree with a political position of the source. OK, let's get you some more sources.
The FACTS I presented are also available at many other places. Here are a few examples:
More than 90% of interdicted fentanyl is stopped at Ports of Entry (POEs), where cartels attempt to smuggle it primarily in vehicles driven by U.S. citizens. CBP and HSI throughout the past two years have run operations that mobilized hundreds of personnel – CBP officers, special agents, import specialists, and intelligence analysts – through surges and deployments at Southwest Border POEs, airports, express consignment facilities, international mail facilities, container stations, and warehouses across the country.
In short, @Reason10, you are still DEAD WRONG!!! It's still true that the vast majority of fentanyl is smuggled by US citizens for US citizens thru official checkpoints.
Lemme repeat that: the vast majority of fentanyl is smuggled by US citizens for US citizens thru official Ports of Entry.
