My son works for a company that sells pumps. These are high end pumps. When Trump first announced the tariffs he received a call from a supplier in California. They offered to send him all the pumps he would need for a full year and they could have them delivered immediately. The sales person told him that their company had told their sales reps to call all of their clients in Canada and that they had trucks ready to deliver them.
My son told them that his clients had now been coming to him and suggesting they did not want pumps made in the USA and asking if there were alternatives. There are great pumps made in Italy. The sales rep said that they had been hearing the same things from all of their Canadian clients.
There are alternatives. It used to be less expensive to buy US products due to transportation but with tariffs it is not just as cheap to buy products made in the EU or Asia. Canada will impose reciprocal tariffs on US made products as will other countries like Mexico and the EU. American manufacturers will find their markets in other countries drying up.
There are alternatives to buying American and we will find them.
In Canadian markets now there are signs on the shelves indicating which products are made in Canada and which are American. We will avoid and already are avoiding American made products.
Trump will ruin the American economy. You will get what you asked for.
Yesterday, I went to the supermarket (here in France) to buy some groceries. I sought to buy fresh bottled coffee. There was 2 brands available: Starbucks (American), and Nescafé (Swiss).
This is what I am talking about. I should have taken a picture of it with my smartphone.
The shelf for Starbucks was full, it appeared that none had been sold. And the shelf for Nescafé was more than half empty. And personally, I went ahead, and bought a Nescafé one. And it was tasty, I was satisfied with the purchase.
This is just an isolated example, it does not constitute hard evidence. But yes, it seems that people in Europe are deliberately avoiding American brands.
Yes, I did and all my companies as much as possible. We are a petroleum and refined product trader.
Some American company wanted to do business with us and Sent a Trump fanboy to close the deal. He came to our Office and kept making jokes about the 51st states. My staff told him to stop because none of us that it was funny. So I came in a meeting and he made another of those Maga inspired joke.
I stopped the meeting and told him to leave our office that we will never do business with them. His boss called me an apologetically and told me that he fired the guy.
I told him that we did not do business with disrespectful people and I decided to give the contract to agree company the contract is for 13 tankers which goes for about $45,000 a day.
Even After the US revolt for seeing the destruction of the US government and cutting benefit to elderly, veterans and the average American in order to give a tax cut to the top 1% of the population The United States will remain a pariah.
A country that cannot be trusted, that does not honor their agreements And that is so morally and financially corrupt that nobody wants to play with them.
I am sad to see the crumbling of the American empire. But you voted for him, you made your bed, sleep in it.
A Canadian businessman
