Fact check: What Trump doesn't mention about Canada's dairy tariffs

[highplainsdem]

I ran across this March 10 fact-check yesterday, bookmarked it to send to anyone complaining about Canada's tariffs, and decided to post it here as well since I couldn't recall seeing it here.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/politics/trump-canada-dairy-tariffs-fact-check/index.html

Fact check: What Trump doesn’t mention about Canada’s dairy tariffs

By Daniel Dale, CNN
Published 8:00 AM EDT, Mon March 10, 2025


President Donald Trump correctly noted Friday, as he has before, that Canada has tariffs above 200% on dairy products imported from the US. But Trump again failed to mention a critical fact.

Those high tariffs kick in only after the US has hit a certain Trump-negotiated quantity of tariff-free dairy sales to Canada each year – and as the US dairy industry acknowledges, the US is not hitting its allowed zero-tariff maximum in any category of dairy product.

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Trump also made a claim that is simply false. He told reporters Friday that the situation with Canadian dairy tariffs was “well taken care of” at the time his first presidency ended, “but under Biden, they just kept raising it.”

In reality, Canada did not raise its dairy tariffs under then-President Joe Biden, as official Canadian documents show and industry groups on both sides of the border confirmed to CNN. The tariffs Trump was denouncing Friday were left in place by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, which Trump negotiated, signed in 2018 and has since touted as “the best trade deal ever made.”

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[Bev54]

1. Most Canadians do not understand our supply management system, trying to explain it

to Trump would be futile.

[GiqueCee]

2. Hell...

... Trump can't understand the delicate and nuanced art of shoe-tying. And when he doesn't understand something, he just makes shit up, or calls it a hoax.

[AZ8theist]

6. Don't forget "witch hunt" or "fake news".

Gee, I wonder what happened to all the dog eating by immigrants....

Pathological liar thinks all Americans are as stupid as he is........

[spanone]

3. I don't know why the media asks him any questions...

He lies with every syllable.

[Shipwack]

4. I don't understand why when he lies,

The media doesn't call him out on it, either in a follow-up question or later in print...

I'm lying, I do know why. It's either because they are cowards afraid of losing access, or complicit, or both.

[LisaM]

5. I don't know why they don't start pointing out the actual facts

and then asking him to defend his previous policies. I don't know why they didn't hammer on his failed presidency during the debates.