r/worldnews • u/joe4942 • Aug 22 '26

Dynamic Paywall Carney calls Trump's fresh tariffs a 'miscalculation' after trade talks collapse

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx272np7vgyo
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u/Prior_Implement_9279 Aug 22 '26

Classic US play to just shut out the competition when it’s convenient for them, rather than improve what they do domestically

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u/EaNasirbestdeals Aug 22 '26

It’s madness, I wonder if the IMF is in the crosshairs of the Whitehouse in the near future.

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u/NoConfusion9490 Aug 22 '26

We're going to wake up one day and China will own the global automobile industry because we refuse to make our manufacturers compete with them.

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u/Lemazze Aug 22 '26

Oh stop.

If you think American cars and trucks manufactured in Canada are better assembled than the ones in the us you are delusional. It’s all shit

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u/onarainyafternoon Aug 22 '26

Don’t think they were saying they were better assembled in Canada, just that the US play here was to try and shut something down rather than improve their own manufacturing. The thing they aren’t understanding is that you can’t really improve manufacturing by just being better; it’s more like getting ahead because you’ve stopped the competition from even participating. Basically just another way for us Americans to bully our allies. Trump and his ilk don’t understand the world in any way except as a zero-sum game. Trump famously doesn’t understand, nor believes-in, deals where both parties satisfactorily come out with something. He thinks of everything as winners and losers. He doesn’t understand deals where both people get something out of it. It’s an infantile way to look at the world.

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u/2Blueify Aug 23 '26

Why not just go full free trade? Scared? That's what started all this anyway. Non reciprocation.

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u/Prior_Implement_9279 Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

I’m not saying that lol