But there is a purpose for the tariffs. Other countries have tariffs to protect their craftsman and manufacturers etc.
Here is an example of the current tariff negotiations with Canadian Lumber suppliers:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/24/investing/canada-lumber-tariff-trump/index.html
The lumber dispute isn't new, and it's not the first the U.S. has imposed tariffs on Canadian lumber.
In fact, it goes back decades. U.S. lumber companies started alleging in the 1980s that Canadian companies have been unfairly subsidized by their government. In 2002, the U.S. imposed a 30% tariff on Canadian softwood lumber, which Canadian firms claimed cost 30,000 jobs at the time.
Canada has consistently denied it subsidizes its lumber companies. The World Trade Organization sided with Canada in 2004 and the two sides came to a temporary agreement in 2006, which expired last October.
Despite the agreement, U.S. lumber firms continued to allege that their Canadian counterparts had an unfair advantage which allowed them to sell their lumber in the U.S. market at prices American firms couldn't sell at.
U.S. firms declared victory Monday night.
"Today's ruling confirms that Canadian lumber mills are subsidized by their government and benefit from lumber pricing policies," Cameron Krauss, legal chair for the U.S. Lumber Coalition, said in a statement.
The move came after there was no breakthrough in U.S. talks on Canadian dairy tariffs.
Canada has long taxed U.S. diary products. Some U.S. milk exports, depending on the fat content, face tariffs as high as 292%, according to Canada's Agriculture Department.
The Canadian milk tariffs were grandfathered into NAFTA, one of the few areas of trade where major tariffs still exist.
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So according to our Dairy farmers and our Lumber Suppliers, Trump is doing a great job by trying to renegotiate things that have been unfairly in Canada's favor.
If you listen to CNN or MSNBC, they paint Trump as being off his rocker, just blindly demanding tariffs. But there is a method to his madness.