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The U.S. government has announced that it is removing controversial tariffs on Canadian aluminum announced in August.
The news came Tuesday afternoon – just two hours before Canada was set to unveil $3.6-billion in retaliatory measures on U.S. imports.
But the Office of the United States Trade Representative also set conditions for reimposing the tariffs, saying this would happen if shipments from Canada were to exceed certain monthly volumes, which it laid out in a news release.
He said he thinks the U.S. government has achieved what it wanted. It has established a monitoring mechanism for aluminum imports from Canada.
“I think this was the objective all along, candidly,” he said.
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Exactly. I read the article. I didn't get a sense that anybody "backed down." I'm not sure people understand how diplomacy often works. You ask for the stars and settle for the moon. That's politics in general. Thanks!!
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I don't know if that's all diplomacy, or even good diplomacy in all circumstances, but it very much is the diplomacy of the Donald Trump administration.
In a nutshell, diplomacy is an exercise in getting the best deal or situation for a participating party. And that's true in business, too. If I want to buy a house, it's unlikely that I'm going to offer top dollar. I will depend on negotiations to bring me where I need to be, and where the seller is willing to sell. It's no different in diplomacy.
I suspect that the aluminum industry is unique, and the Trump administration is wise to keep US aluminum and steel healthy. There are a number of reasons, the most obvious being military. When aluminum recycling became the norm, that recycled aluminum had deficiencies. I can actually see it in modern aluminum products around me versus the pre-recycled products. There's often a little pitting because it's very hard to rid recycled metals of all impurities, albeit it's better than it was initially. By keeping our aluminum and steel industries healthy and inured to a degree from the competitive fray, the US is enabling the industry to manufacture a top notch product, and that product is extremely important in vehicles, military equipment of all kinds, certainly aircraft and a number of technological devices. Thanks!!
? or maybe a mutually beneficial agreement was made .. it's all a part of negotiation.
And Trump is not calling an emergency press conference to boast about it?
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