• HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth
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    14 hours ago

    I don’t remember where but i’ve read a interview with a ceo saying it will take them at least 4 years to make the change they need to stop using canadian aluminum

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      9 hours ago

      Pretty much any of the changes Trump supposedly wants to effect with these tariffs would take somewhere in the region of 4-10 years to execute.

      Which is why they simply won’t. Why invest in that at all when their assumption is that the tariffs will be done by then, because they’ll just make sure a less stupid, more compliant president gets elected?

      The whole plan is idiotic and self defeating, plain and simple.

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        8 hours ago

        Personally, I’m not sure we can assume there will be an election in four years. Or if there is one, that it won’t be an “election”, like in Russia.

        (Likewise, if the US ever did take over Canada by force, I’m sure we would be a territory like Puerto Rico and not have a vote.)

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      8 hours ago

      I’d imagine there’s also a monetary reason they didn’t in the first place too. I’m not sure if it was cheaper to just import from Canada or what, but I’d imagine things will be a lot more expensive for Americans even once things are all worked out (in the unlikely scenario the US ever even returns to being a stable country which seems unlikely at this point)