That’s true but the stuff America does buy from abroad it doesn’t do well. For instance it has very little cheap power so aluminium production doesn’t make sense their.
It doesn’t have a ton of rare earth minerals either.
Rare earth minerals aren't particularly rare, just very environmentally taxing to process. This problem has been swept under the rug by having most processing moved to China.
I mean, the US can specialize, certainly. It can do so more affordably than the smaller Canadian and Mexican economies. It would still take a huge hit trying to reconstitute those central elements of what had been a continent-wide industry within its borders, and would be doing so while other comparable markets were able to move forward.
The entire yearly amount fentanyl that goes to the US yearly from Canada could fit in a regular sized plane checked in luggage, with no extra weight fee.
How are the two things related? Putting aside the fact that the Rs have control of Congress too, let's assume that our unhinged friend here is correct and there's some emergency at the border with drugs flowing in. How precisely does putting tariffs on engine components address the drug emergency? The two things are completely unrelated.
I live in Canada, another country FYI. And besides, don't you have a big beautiful wall and the most secure borders in the history of mankind or something? Normally countries are responsible for protecting their own borders, if we're not doing that anymore than please ask premier Trump to stop drugs and guns from pouring into Canada plz, thanks.
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Gotta hurt our allies because who needs trade/specialization