Well, Donald Trump has gone and stepped in it now. Canada just announced their retaliatory tariffs, and America is in real trouble.
Just check out this list released by CTV News:
Primate, Camel, and Manatee meat
Dog coats, dog food and frozen dogfish fillets
Emus and other birds, decoy birds, and explosive bird-scaring devices
Tuned handbells, church bells and fitted cases for church bells
Veils, prayer shawls and burial shrouds
Asbestos and clothing made with asbestos fibers
Toilet seats, toilet sprays and toilet brushes
False beards, eyebrows, eyelashes and wigs
Bovine semen and the tubes, pipes and hoses used for storing it
Rocket launchers, flame-throwers and grenade launchers
Snuff, rolling papers and tobacco pipes
Accordions and accordion parts
Metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes
Diaries, encyclopedias and sample books of textile wall coverings
Traveling circuses and menageries
Granted, there are also some serious items on the list, like cruise ships and spacecraft, but this still might be the most ridiculous tariff tiff in the history of the world.
Ian Lee, a professor at Carleton University's Sprott School of Business, says it's purely political.
‘Why would you list such a plethora of small, obscure products?' Lee asked CTVNews.ca. ‘I think it's being driven by the need to produce visible optics, and so they can say, ‘Look, we've got six thousand, two hundred (items), we're really going at this, we're really sticking it to Donald Trump and the Americans.'
Personally, I think it's the manatee meat that will make President Trump cave first.
Shout out to Not the Bee user @barbls for the heads up about this story.
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