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> > > BTW Ms. Penny also announced that she has cancelled
> > > a planned book tour in the US that was to occur later
> > > this year. She didn't feel that touring the US when
> > > they were threathening Canada with tariffs, etc. was
> > > the proper thing to do at this time.
> >
> > Did someone point out to Ms. Penny that her own country loves the tariff? And
> > not just small tariffs, either. Here's a small sampling of some of the tariffs
> > Canadia imposes on the U.S.:
> >
> > 250% for milk
> > 291% for butter
> > 208% for whey
> > 241% for cheese
> >
> > I guess for folks like Ms. Penny, that's somehow 'different'. "Tariffs for
> > thee, but not for me!"
>
> I'm not going to look it up at the moment but those aren't the actual
> tariffs because the tariffs only apply to a specific amount of each
> item that is shipped into the country over a given amount. Amounts
> that have not been met in the past few years so the tariffs weren't
> actually applied. There's articles that go into the details and shows
> how the numbers look great in a tweet so long as you don't look into
> the details.

What you're describing sounds like a quota system, not a
tariff system. Tariffs are flat rate taxes akin to sales
taxes. Quota systems are the "gotcha" or "trapdoor"
type fees, taxes and fines, imposed on trade that appear
inherently unfair to me, especially in how they divide up
what company can trade how much and what competitors are barred
from trade within the quota.

I've long noticed that the Free Trade regime, for generations,
far prefers quotas to tariffs, and have avowed to eliminate
tariffs in favor of quotas, no matter how much more quotas
are unfair and restrictive of trade, as the ideological goal
of Free Trade activists to stop governments from raising taxes
though trade favors quotas, which are arbitrary restrictions
by governments without raising money.