Fact check: What Trump doesn’t mention about Canada’s dairy tariffs
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WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump correctly noted Friday, as he has before, that Canada has tariffs above 200 per cen t on dairy products imported from the U.S. But Trump again failed to mention a critical fact.
Those high tariffs kick in only after the U.S. has hit a certain Trump-negotiated quantity of tariff-free dairy sales to Canada each year – and as the U.S. dairy industry acknowledges , the U.S. is not hitting its allowed zero-tariff maximum in any category of dairy product.
In many categories, notably including milk , the U.S. is not even at half of the zero-tariff maximum.
“In practice, these tariffs are not actually paid by anyone,” Al Mussell , an expert on Canadian agricultural trade, said in an email Friday.
Trump also made a claim that is simply false. He told reporters Friday that the situation with Canadian dairy tariffs was “well taken care of” at the time his first presidency ended, “but under Biden, they just kept raising it.”
In reality, Canada did not raise its dairy tariffs under then-U.S. President Joe Biden, as official Canadian documents show and industry groups on both sides of the border confirmed to CNN. The tariffs Trump was denouncing Friday were left in place by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, which Trump negotiated, signed in 2018 and has since touted as “the best trade deal ever made.”
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Donald, clean up the whoremoans in your dairy products and we can whisper-talk.
So he lied again.
Does Canada have a special cheese?
At 24 lbs a year per person - Cheddar.
I like a good Cheddar.
The fact that Trump is such an unstoppable liar is not half as devastating as the fact that so many people are so ignorant as to believe him.
I'm not even sure it's ignorance since that can be fixed with education and facts. It's more of an intentional blindness to anything seen as negative being presented about "their guy". The MAGAites have made their choice and now it's "My Donald! Right or wrong!". They don't really give a shit about America anymore because America contains all sorts of diversity and inclusion. The white nationalist rightwing conservatives have claimed the melting pot is making them sick to their stomachs, they're tired of watching people who don't look like them, pray like them or love like them getting a hand up and getting ahead. They view themselves as the new discriminated against class even though they have had just about every advantage since childhood, many just chose not to avail themselves of them and now they whine about being left behind because they didn't want to retrain for the jobs of the future, they demanded we bring manufacturing and coal mining back so they wouldn't have to get educated. That's intentional blindness, or perhaps willful ignorance, at best.