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Sunday, April 06, 2025

President Donald Trump imposed new tariffs -- and made false claims to justify them. DW fact-checked two viral ones.

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-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) April 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM

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... In a press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 2, US President Donald Trump announced a new round of global tariffs. His statements on the tariffs' calculations, justifications and effects, however, were filled with false claims. And they put many economies in a bind. Some countries have already announced countermeasures.

DW fact-checked two viral claims by Trump.

Claim: In a video, attached in this post

on X, with 1.1 million views at the time of writing, Trump states that "Canada by the way imposes a 250-300% tariff on many of our dairy products, the first can of milk, the first little carton of milk, very low price, after that, it gets bad."

DW Fact check: False

The tariffs Canada imposes on US dairy products are arranged in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

It applies to 14 categories of dairy products, such as milk, butter, cheese, yogurt, and ice cream.

As agreed in the USMCA, a certain number of US dairy products is allowed to enter the Canadian market tariff-free.

When this limit is reached, other tariff calculations kick in to protect domestic producers. These over-quota tariffs are between 200 and 300%. However, according to the USMCA, Canada has guaranteed that tens of thousands of metric tons of imported US milk per year will face zero tariffs. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-06 02:44 AM | Reply

@#1 ... As agreed in the USMCA, a certain number of US dairy products is allowed to enter the Canadian market tariff-free. ...

So Pres Trump dos not appear to know the terms of the treaty he negotiated?

A treaty he has called, "The USMCA is the largest, most significant, modern, and balanced trade agreement in history.

All of our countries will benefit greatly."

( trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov )


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-06 02:49 AM | Reply

OK, I have a question ...

Could this be why Pres Trump seems to be so aghast regarding the archiving of his admin's comments?


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-06 02:51 AM | Reply

Fat idiot liar continues to be a fat idiot liar.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-06 05:58 AM | Reply

They are not false claims, they are lies. That's all
This obese Orange traitorous scumbag does is lie.

#5 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-04-06 04:28 PM | Reply

Not so fast there, non-friendly government funded media DW-

Canada has added trade barriers to evade USMCA agreements. Canada is not a good-faith party to the agreement.

United States Prevails in USMCA Dispute on Canadian Dairy Restrictions
January 04, 2022

ustr.gov

more details about the trade barriers are in this trade pub-

Dairy Trade Flows Between The US And Canada
archive.is

#6 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-07 12:13 AM | Reply

link for the archive-impaired -
www.thedairysite.com

#7 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-07 12:17 AM | Reply

-Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te on April 6 said his nation would offer zero tariffs and no retaliation as the start of negotiations with the United States while vowing to remove trade barriers.

-Bloomberg reports that Vietnam has offered to remove all tariffs on US imports

-DW
Trump tariffs: 50 nations seek new US trade talks " official

-This is how Asia Pacific is responding to US reciprocal tariffs
Bangkok Post
https://www.bangkokpost.com Business General
55 minutes ago " Response: The government said there is an immediate reduction of tariffs on 19 categories of American goods to 5% from 35%, without identifying ...

WE are winning! All of US! Say THANKS PWESIDENT TWUMP!!

#8 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-07 12:58 AM | Reply

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