With a minimum of googling, it seems that Honda already makes this vehicle in both the U.S. and Canada. They appear to be adding shifts to the U.S. to boost production 30% while lowering it elsewhere. So "Yay" I guess. It's one of the few situations where the tariffs can work short term. In most cases, shifting production from another country to the U.S. is a multi-year investment that tariffs won't significantly impact because they are changing too often to drive such long-term decisions.
When people refer to "tariffs," they're talking about when a country puts a tax on imports coming from a particular country. Are you saying Canada should tax Honda specifically (and not, for example, other car manufacturers like Toyota)?
Yes, tax Honda specifically. I mean, it can't just tax Honda specifically as a "bill of attainder" issue, so it'd need to be phrased as something like "companies whose production has been deemed transferred due to foreign tarrifs".
The western world's average tariff rate is generally around 1.5%. Increasing this by an order of magnitude is something new, and a lot more than "catching up".
>The announcement came less than a month after Honda denied a report in the Japanese media that President Trump’s tariffs would force it to pull back in Canada.
Honda in Japan made a legally true statement to Nikkei. If they lied, these executives would be facing criminal charges. We now know this was true.
Honda Canada lied saying this was untrue. To the benefit of the Liberals during an election. Interfering in the election as an unregistered third party. Probably violating CSA laws as well; almost certainly OSC.
Given that the libs ran against trump’s impact on Canada, they would have played up this change if they knew about it. Yet more stuff to be fought, etc. keeping it quite, to me, was trying to help the cons…
With a minimum of googling, it seems that Honda already makes this vehicle in both the U.S. and Canada. They appear to be adding shifts to the U.S. to boost production 30% while lowering it elsewhere. So "Yay" I guess. It's one of the few situations where the tariffs can work short term. In most cases, shifting production from another country to the U.S. is a multi-year investment that tariffs won't significantly impact because they are changing too often to drive such long-term decisions.
Hopefully Canada slaps a tarriffs on companies that relocate production.
When people refer to "tariffs," they're talking about when a country puts a tax on imports coming from a particular country. Are you saying Canada should tax Honda specifically (and not, for example, other car manufacturers like Toyota)?
Yes, tax Honda specifically. I mean, it can't just tax Honda specifically as a "bill of attainder" issue, so it'd need to be phrased as something like "companies whose production has been deemed transferred due to foreign tarrifs".
This. That's so stupid, what once each and every country has tariffs ?
That... is broadly already the case, with a few exceptions in central Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tariff_ra...
It's funny how many people think the US is doing something new, and not just catching up with the rest of the world.
The western world's average tariff rate is generally around 1.5%. Increasing this by an order of magnitude is something new, and a lot more than "catching up".
https://archive.is/2PjRi
My Acura (Honda) MDX has been made in South Carolina since forever, and that's a big contributor to why I chose it.
I wonder how this move will affect the sticker price?
>The announcement came less than a month after Honda denied a report in the Japanese media that President Trump’s tariffs would force it to pull back in Canada.
Honda in Japan made a legally true statement to Nikkei. If they lied, these executives would be facing criminal charges. We now know this was true.
Honda Canada lied saying this was untrue. To the benefit of the Liberals during an election. Interfering in the election as an unregistered third party. Probably violating CSA laws as well; almost certainly OSC.
https://www.grainger.com/product/6CHG3 I think you dropped this…
I read the original as a satirical duplication if Trump's complaints against various media companies as being election interference.
Your link, is still apposite--well I will add the old Ccestnut that just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they are not all out to get you
Given that the libs ran against trump’s impact on Canada, they would have played up this change if they knew about it. Yet more stuff to be fought, etc. keeping it quite, to me, was trying to help the cons…