{"id":54826,"date":"2025-02-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=54826"},"modified":"2025-02-01T09:55:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T14:55:46","slug":"qotd-tariffs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/02\/02\/qotd-tariffs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Who is punished by tariffs on imported goods? Let&#8217;s go through the steps. The Canadian government imposes high tariffs on American dairy imports. That forces Canadians to pay higher prices for dairy products and protects Canada&#8217;s dairy producers from American competition. What should be the U.S. government&#8217;s response to Canada&#8217;s screwing its citizens? If you were in the Trump administration, you might retaliate by imposing stiff tariffs on softwood products built from pine, spruce and fir trees used by U.S. homebuilders. In other words, the U.S. should retaliate against Canada&#8217;s harming its citizens by forcing them to pay higher dairy product prices, by forcing Americans through tariffs to pay higher prices for wood and thereby raising the cost of building homes. <\/p>\n<p>Walter E. Williams, <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/walterewilliams\/2020\/02\/05\/economics-reality-n2560631\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Economics Reality&#8221;, <em>Townhall.com<\/em><\/a>, 2020-02-04.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is punished by tariffs on imported goods? Let&#8217;s go through the steps. The Canadian government imposes high tariffs on American dairy imports. That forces Canadians to pay higher prices for dairy products and protects Canada&#8217;s dairy producers from American competition. What should be the U.S. government&#8217;s response to Canada&#8217;s screwing its citizens? 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