Playing Cards Caught in Crossfire of US-Canada Trade Dispute

shells_bells_53 said:

Oh, I understood the article stated the tariff was on all playing cards? I'll have to re-read.

Edit - I still believe it affected playing cards, but because Canada can find playing cards elsewhere that is really not a huge problem, to avoid tariffs. But if you play Magic: The Gathering cards, that could be a problem, since they are exclusively made in the USA.

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Trillian said:

If the Magic cards are the only ones made exclusively in the US, Canada could purchase others in Mexico. Could be cheaper at the end. By shipping them, as the word suggests, over the oceans the US could be circumvented completely.

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ScooperNova said:

I don't believe the USA should continue its charitable policies towards other countries with healthy economies. Sometimes I think people tend to forget some of these countries who are part of this trade disagreement have been fleecing the USA for years and they understandably don't want to give that up. Although pretty low mostly, There have been tariffs on American goods from the EU and other countries for a while now that weren't retaliated against or matched. There are reasons manufacturing has been leaving the US at an alarming rate for decades, which leads to less lower middle class jobs and higher unemployment. The reason is you have to pay labors significantly more in the US. There's a reason all of our manufacturing jobs move to places like Mexico, while their labor force flees to find a golden minimum wage job in the USA. The free trade elitists want to squeeze every penny out of the poor and they can't stand the thought of sharing with their laborers. I don't think any of the points I've made are even really debatable.

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MattRyder said:

All democratic countries elect representatives that they trust will represent them fairly in global negotiations (trade and otherwise). If things are as bad as you and Trump suggest, where were the voters the past 100+ years? There are reasons each and every deal in the past was negotiated the way it was by duly elected US administrations, and I'm pretty darn sure charity was far from the top of the list. No, I don't think it's as simple as all that.

To your second point about lower wages offshore and workers fleeing lower wage countries for the US. There's a simple solution. Don't build the wall. Rather allow free flow of immigrants into the US at all points of entry. You will quickly see a leveling of wage disparities throughout the world. Let capitalism work it's wonders.

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