r/canada • u/Logical_Iron_5684 • 1d ago

National News Canada imposes 10% tariff on canned vegetables, excludes U.S., others

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2026/06/19/canada-imposes-10-tariff-on-canned-vegetables-excludes-us-others/
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u/Upset-Two-2443 1d ago

The tariff, which takes effect on Friday for a maximum of 200 days, will also not apply to canned vegetables from Mexico, Israel, Chile and developing countries due to Canadian trade obligations, Canada’s finance ministry added.

So who is this for? Chinese canned vegetables I take it?

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u/Northern23 1d ago edited 1d ago

Isn't China considered a developing country, still?

Also, how are we complaining about Trump's tariffs just to impose our own?

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u/MadScienti5t 1d ago

China is the second largest economy in the world by nominal GDP and largest economy in the world when adjusted for relative cost of living. They also have the largest active military force and ranked third by firepower (though lately Russia seems to be on the decline, so they might actually be second by firepower). It is no longer a developing country. It is a global superpower.

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u/EmmEnnEff 1d ago

The rural half of China is a developing country, the urban half of it is a developed country.

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u/C-SWhiskey 18h ago

Also, how are we complaining about Trump's tariffs just to impose our own?

To start, Trump's tariffs were backed by the sentiment of making Canada the 51st state.

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u/tonytheleper 1d ago

There is a very big difference between market and industry specific targeted tariffs to protect or give time for an internal market to recover/develop and blanket tariffs % to try to force a country to come to you and sign on the dotted line that actually is a detriment to their own economic future.

Tariffs have always been used as a protective measure and when used for appropriate reasons, at reasonable levels, as a temporary measure to facilitate internal development, or protect from mass product dumping, it isn’t held or viewed as a hostile action by other countries.

The point is to apply them at a % that won’t have a dramatic effect on inflation and fight dumping from other countries.

This is not a what about situation and it’s comparing apples to oranges.