Canada responds to Trump with tariffs on manatee meat, flamethrowers, and other items
In response to President Trump’s tariffs on Canadian products, Canada imposed a 25 percent tariff on approximately 1,800 American products. Examples on the list include false beards, church bell cases, passenger drones and live monkeys. If you’re a Canadian and want to purchase accordion parts, bovine semen, and emus, you’ll have to pay more. Canada also purchased billboard advertisements in red states and in Washington D.C. saying that tariffs are a tax on hardworking Americans. Half of these billboards were in French.
From Breitbart:
Canadians will soon find themselves paying more for imported American accordion parts, emus, bovine semen, and clothing made with asbestos fibers. Toronto residents who dreamed of reaching the stars with an American-made spaceship will pay 25 percent more to make their dreams come true. Ottawa diarists will have to pay 25 percent more if they want to record their daily adventures in a diary imported from the United States.
“Why would you list such a plethora of small, obscure products? I think it’s being driven by the need to produce visible optics, and so they can say, ‘Look, we’ve got 6,200 (items), we’re really going at this, we’re really sticking it to Donald Trump and the Americans,” said professor Ian Lee of the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University.
“These are not consumer goods that are turning over in high volumes. They’re low-volume purchases, which tells me they’re going to have a small impact on Canadians if only a small number are buying them on any given day,” he said.
“I will say, manatee meat isn’t something we can make ourselves, but I don’t think it will create too much of a backlash from Canadian consumers,” University of Regina economics professor Jason Childs wryly noted.
Childs may be underselling the pain that will soon be faced by Canadian gourmands, as not only imported manatee meat will be socked with higher tariffs but also American-grown camel and primate meat. Canada’s fledgling camel-burger industry will tremble on the verge of extinction.
Of course, not everything getting hit with retaliatory tariffs is a bizarre niche product, and Canada is employing other strategies to fight the trade war.
Additional Reading:
Hayward, J. (2025, March 31). Canada slaps tariffs on flamethrowers, manatee meat, fake beards, and live monkeys in response to Trump. Breitbart. Link.
Category: Canada, Donald Trump, Economy
Neighbors of accordion players will rejoice at the increased price of accordion parts if it will keep that one neighbor quiet.
Grilled Sea Cow is kinda tasty…probably not as tasty as Moose Meat but the palate wants what the palate wants. Not something I normally offer up during the Festivities around Fire Base Magnolia after earning the Coveted TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread FIRST, but if anyone has a taste for it I’ll oblige. Bring your own Flammenwerfer. With the Canucks cutting back on their purchases of Sea Cow, I should be able to get it. Flammenwerfer Foo Gas is still kinda spendy so….
Manatee is tasty but those big bastards are really tough to filet.
Flur-Ruh-Duh Man uses the props on the river boats to carve off pieces as they need them. Gotta be careful tho…carving pieces of them near the discharge points of the power plants on the Hillsborough River is classified as “…hunting over a baited field…”
https://www.tampaelectric.com/manatee
False beards, OK. But taxing bull sperm? That’s just rude.
Probably hurt the workers the most in a job that already sucks.
That’s probably the fat guy in the white dress’s job on the libs of tic tok thread. He is the official bull semen sucker off’er.
Dirty jobs had an episode on collecting semen from bulls. Told as only Mike Rowe can.
Similar job description:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/roBdMyPjr_o
I’ve got 12 gallons of bull semen I can’t get rid of now that the Canucks have raised the price…
Don’t ask.
It was part of a wedding gift…for a buddy of mine…and that’s all I’m saying.
Trying to (not) say something about your buddy’s dependapotamus?
Bears repeating…
Not trying at all to sound like a militant union type, but it makes me wonder why the GOP and Clinton worked so hard to pass NAFTA, and here we are getting screwed 30 years later
“Ya hear that giant sucking sound?”
Because NAFTA was a scam. It was free trade for Canada and Mexico, not for America.
Help a brother out. I’d like to buy one of those US made TVs.
Here you go:
List of TVs made in America (updated in 2025) – StreamDiag
Why are so few TV brands made in America?
The above are all the TVs made in America as of 2025. However, looking closely at the list, you will notice that household TV brand names are missing. So, why is this the case?
A few decades ago, the United States was one of the world’s leading TV manufacturers. From the 1950s, several famous TV manufacturers, such as RCA, Zenith, GE (General Electric), Quasar, Philco, Magnavox, Sharp, and Westinghouse, were once based in the USA.
However, many TV manufacturers have ceased operations in the United States. One reason is that some manufacturers moved their operations overseas to countries like China, where labor and components used in TVs are cheaper.
Other companies, such as Philips, Sharp, and Westinghouse, license their brand names to overseas manufacturers in countries like China, Taiwan, and Japan, which could produce cheaper and more competitive models.
Some TV manufacturing companies, like Zenith, were acquired by other overseas manufacturers, while others, like General Electric and Pioneer, shifted their focus to other industries after facing immense competition from overseas brands.
However, a few TV manufacturers, like Olevia, were unlucky, with the company filing for bankruptcy in 2008.
These factors, mostly caused by stiff competition from overseas TV manufacturers, have contributed heavily to the gradual decline of TVs made in America.
… Al-Gore might be interested in some of that bull semen. When he starts channeling Hunter Thompson and Tookie Williams, well, ya’know, he always was sort of renaissance kind of guy and “dammit, people liked him”.
It remains a wonderment as to why he never moved to Minnesota.
On the uptick, even Neil Young doesn’t live in Canada. Even better, no matter what else happens when you wake up tomorrow, you won’t be helpless in Ontario.
I heard ole Noel put her down.
Well, I hope Neal Young will remember
A Southern Man don’t need him around anyhow
As long as they don’t tax the Irish and the Jameson’s keeps flowing I’m good. I mean they have this thing called a Bourbon Sour but it has a cherry in it FFS. No man should drink a drink with a cherry.
The big difference that somehow the media keeps missing is that our tariffs are reciprocal and theirs are retaliatory. They keep calling Trump’s tariffs retaliation, they aren’t. Canada can’t raise their tariffs on the stuff that Trump slapped tariffs on because if they do Trump will raise them to match and that will really hurt them.
Try Jameson’s and ginger ale with a twist of lime. Awesome on a hot day.
How is that better than light beer?
Light beer will never taste as good as Jameson’s.
You can’t get a buzz on light beer!
What about rubber chickens and fake dog shit???
I stopped reading after “In response to President Trump’s tariffs”.
The Canadians have been tariffing the shit out of America for decades. Response my ass. This is a scalation. Hit them back with MORE tariffs!
And that is that.
ABSOLUTELY