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   > MP>Someone mentioned in another echo that they thought all the posturing   
   bout   
   >   >tarrifs was to get other countries to lower/eliminate existing tarrifs   
   hat   
   >   >they have on existing goods.  In the cases of Canada and Mexico, I was not   
   >   >aware of any serious tarrifs existing before he started this.  China might   
   >   >be a different matter, though.   
      
   > I meant to mention when you first wrote this, there have always been   
   > some taroffs on certain things. Trump recently has been complaining   
   > about "240% Tariffs" on some Dairy and Poultry products you want to   
   > sell us. That's a typical part lie, part exaggeration on his part.   
      
   > First, our current agreement on those products Trump negotiated the   
   > last time he was in office.   
      
   LOL, yeah, which is why I wasn't really counting the previously-existing   
   ones.  I wasn't sure what they were on as I was sure Trump was   
   exaggerating, but I did know there was one on milk and/or cattle.   
      
   > The "240% Tariffs" can actually happen, but it is a penalty that   
   > is added when you sell us more of those products than what the   
   > agreement that Trump negotiated said was allowed.   
      
   Trump asking who signed that is because he knows a lot of folks would never   
   research it and figure out it was he himself that signed it.  ;)   
      
   > Plus our prices on that stuff is high here because our gov't uses   
   > what is called a Supply Management system, which basically means that   
   > the gov't sets the rough prices on certain products high enough so   
   > that the farmers make a good enough profit to stay in business where   
   > competing with each other could bankrupt farms creating shortages,   
   > so that's basically a tariff on Canadians to buy from our own farmers.   
      
   > Supply Management is the Supply end controling prices rather than Demand.   
      
   Yes, and it is something you have to be real careful with.   
      
   Mike   
      
      
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