THE US HAS LOPSIDED TRADE AGREEMENTS WITH ALMOST ALL “TRADING PARTNERS”

THE US HAS LOPSIDED TRADE AGREEMENTS WITH ALMOST ALL “TRADING PARTNERS”

https://willempost.substack.com/p/the-us-has-lopsided-trade-agreeme...

By Willem Post

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Before NAFTA, Canada and Mexico always had annual trade deficits with the US
After NAFTA:

1) Canada and Mexico, with investments by European and Asian companies, have huge DUTY-FREE annual trade surpluses with the US.

2) Foreign (and US) companies shipped parts to Mexico and assembled cars, with their entire production shipped DUTY-FREE into the US.

That is Trojan Horse exploitation that is sucking wealth/jobs from the US.

3) Dutch companies shipped automated greenhouses, the size of airplane hangars, to Canada (which provides almost- free gas and electricity as an incentive), with almost their entire production shipped DUTY-FREE into the US.

That is Trojan Horse exploitation that is sucking wealth/jobs from the US

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Dutch/Belgian conglomerates own more than 50% of the food supermarkets on the US East Coast.

Aldi, a German company had 2559 US food supermarkets in July, 2025, also owns Trader Joe’s with 608 stores.

That means plenty of permanent shelf space for European farm goods to the disadvantage of US farmers.

Europe has been doing this since the disastrous 1960s Kennedy Round, which lowered tariffs for European goods without the US getting any lower tariffs and lower non-tariff barriers from Europe.

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On July 1, 2020, NAFTA was replaced by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) 

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Free Trade?

Japan has a 700% tariff on US rice. India 100%.

Egypt 65% average tariff on all US goods. 

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On quantities in excess of quota, Canadian tariffs on US dairy products are: Milk up to 243%. Butter up to 298%, Cheese up to 245%. This screws US farmers, already for decades.

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Living in Vermont, we buy, throughout the year, electricity (GMP, Canada), propane (IRVING, Canada), gasoline (IRVING, Canada), and vegetables and flowers (Hanneford, Dutch/Belgium)

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Perot, a Texas businessman, predicted NAFTA would be sucking tens of $billions of wealth and millions of jobs out of the US. Deluded, brainwashed Americans laughed at Perot at that time.

CBS News “reported” 70,500 American factories (millions of jobs lost) have closed since the start of NAFTA

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Trump is doing the right thing with tariffs to increase US production of goods and services for domestic use and export,

that will employ tens of millions of workers, build strong families and communities, and will reduce imports of goods and services, and will transform decades of wealth/job-sucking trade deficits into trade surpluses to MAGA

German Economist: Trump Tariffs are Saving the US

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/german-economist-trump...

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US HAS TRADE DEFICITS WITH MANY COUNTRIES

https://willempost.substack.com/p/us-has-trade-deficits-with-many-c...

Willem Post

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Hindsight is 20/20, but Bill Clinton’s decision to admit China into the WTO ranks among the greatest strategic blunders in modern history. Everything he promised would happen turned out to be the exact opposite.

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If Europe, China, etc., do not like US tariffs, why do they have their own tariffs and non-tariff barriers?

In response to US tariffs:

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- Vietnam finally reduced its tariffs to ZERO, but that is no big deal, because its sales to the US were $136.6 billion, and it bought from the US $13.1 billion, in 2024.

- Taiwan wants to reduce its tariffs to ZERO, but that is not a big deal, because its sales to the US were $116.26 billion, but it bought from the US $42.34 billion, in 2024.

- Countries with trade surpluses should think first and act after. They should:

1) Not retaliate with tariffs, and

2) Eliminate tariff barriers and non-tariff barriers, and

3) Buy more US goods and services to reduce their trade surpluses to zero.

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Vietna...

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Europe Colludes with Others to Obstruct Trump’s Tariffs

Europe is arranging and coordinating a group of ideological allies to collude with counter sanctions.  Those allies include Canada and to a lesser extent, Mexico.  Trump is onto their collusion. He said, if Europe colludes with Canada to harm the US, higher US tariffs will be placed on both of them.

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Finally, the US is lucky to have a hard-nosed businessman in the White House, who cannot be $bought, instead of a senile, grifting/grafting, dysfunctional marionette, or, God-forbid, an inane, cackling word salad.

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/international-trade-is...

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When will woke Euro elites finally admit, increased CO2 ppm, an essential, life-creating gas, is needed to grow more flora and fauna, and increase crop yields to feed 8 billion people?

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/co2-has-a-very-minor-r...

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/we-are-in-a-co2-famine

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How Effective are the US Tariffs?

US international trade of imports and exports of goods and services

January 2025: Exports: $269.8 b; Imports: $401.2 b; Deficit: $131.4 b 

February 2025: Exports: $278.0 b; Imports: $401.1 b; Deficit: $123.1 b 

March 2025; Exports: $281.1 b; Imports: $419.4 b; Deficit: $138.3 b 

April 2025: Exports: $289.4 b; Imports: $351.0 b; Deficit: $61.6 b

May 2025; Exports: $278 b; Imports: $350.3; Deficit: $71.5 b

June 2025, Exports: $277.3 b; Imports: $337.5 b; Deficit: $60.2 b

July 2025, Exports $280.5 b; Imports $358.8 b; Deficit: $78.3 b

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Trump imposed the following tariffs on Europe: Steel and Aluminum 50%; Imported cars 25%; Other sectors: Investigations were launched into pharmaceuticals, copper, and other sectors to potentially impose further tariffs 

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In response, Europe, Japan, Korea, etc., have maintained prices of its cars to avoid losing US market share. However, Ford Motor's total sales are up 6.1% to 930,925 vehicles sold compared with the first five months of 2024.

Ford assembles 80% of its cars in the US. General Motors and Stellantis about 55%

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GM recently announced plans to spend $4 billion to retool the 1) Orion Assembly Plant in Michigan, 2) Fairfax Assembly Plant in Kansas, and 3) Spring Hill Manufacturing in Tennessee, which would add some 300,000 units of production back to America. Domestic production could increase from 60% to 75% of US demand by 2030, due to tariffs, according to Barron’s.