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The trade deficit with Canada is because Americans are buying Canadian products.

Enough Canadians (seriously, the vast majority) live close enough to the border that they could make a weekly trip to the USA and purchase American dairy and other American goods. In fact, prior to the tariffs many Canadians did make regular shopping trips across the border.

So let's be clear: we were buying your products to the extent we wanted to, already.

no the trade deficit is the US buying canadian oil at a deep discount.

canada buys US products and services to a large trade deficit where canadians get stuff in exchange for dollars.

its just oil that the americans are really buying from canada

True enough; but they want to make it about Canadian Dairy, Softwood Lumber, Steel, Aluminum and so on.

As someone unfamiliar with the US-Canada trade relationship, it would be helpful if you developed this argument instead of stating it as a fact. I'm not well-placed to know whether your belief that Canada has bilked the US out of 46 billion dollars is well-founded or not.

It represents the trade deficit the USA has with Canada. To believe that this is a problem as a result of Canada's nefarious actions is to believe that Canada is preventing its citizens from purchasing American product.

Which is a common refrain with respect to our supply management system for dairy; but to believe this you have to ignore that the USA has _never once_ managed to export enough dairy products to Canada to meet or exceed the import quotas set by the supply management regime.

The truth is that Canadians simply don't seem all that interested in purchasing American dairy products.

> The truth is that Canadians simply don't seem all that interested in purchasing American dairy products

Yup, taking this a bit off topic: I've always bought dairy products with the blue cow on it (signifies Canadian dairy). The US dairy industry only wants to export into Canada when they have excess, and leave us dry when they don't, so i strongly support Canadian dairy production.

He’s not telling the truth.

https://economics.td.com/ca-canada-us-trade-balance

Erm, Apple gear, cheap stuff, and much of the generic drug market comes from those ChiComs. Or is it ok if the US does it?

meanwhile, the US is trying to get a much closer relationship with china than canada, and does a hell of a lot more trade with china than canada does.

its literally just oil that makes up that trade surplus. if you want the taps turned off, that can be arranged

> We also take issue with them cozying up to the ChiComms.

does everything possible to spite the Canadian economy. then has the gall to be surprised that Canada would cozy up to people who don't shit on them

who would have guessed?

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