In his most recent outline, Promethean Action PAC’s Mike Steger puts the U.S-Canada trade conflict into an accurate context where China is really the enterprise to gain or fail. This is a very well presented segment worth watching.
CTH readers will note our long track of this dynamic. In short, as NAFTA predictably evolved, and as the U.S. manufacturing base was deconstructed, suddenly things shifted. Canada and Mexico became important as entry doors into the U.S. consumer market for the products outsourced by the destruction of the American manufacturing base.
Steger appropriately uses the auto-sector as an example because it is the easiest sector to quantify damage. By playing the long game, China has thoroughly compromised the EU and U.K auto market. In 2025 China exported 1.2 million vehicles into Europe. Europe only exported 200,000 vehicles into China; a net trade deficit of 1 million vehicles in Beijing’s favor.
Chinese cars now represent over ten percent of all EU vehicles on the road, and this is only the beginning stage of the collapse of the EU industrial base that Germany and Brussels have only recently started to grasp. The pace is irreversible at this point for Europe, and now China has turned their attention toward Canada. This is why the U.S-Canada trade conflict matters!
Canada is the entryway to do in North America what China has done in Europe. WATCH:
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In the graph below, look at how fast things move once the foothold is established by policy. This is stunning.
When President Trump left office in Term-1 (Jan ’21), Europe was exporting around 400,000 cars to China, and China was exporting around 175,000 cars to Europe.
Just five years later, Europe is exporting 200,000 cars to China, and China is exporting 1.2 million cars to Europe.
This is why Germany’s auto-sector is in a state of rapid collapse, represented by Volkswagen’s recent announcements to close factories, chut down models and eliminate up to 100,000 jobs. LOOK:
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When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney tells President Trump that there are limits on the Chinese EVs Canada is currently allowing, no reasonable person can look at the recent history of both BYD/GEELY and not understand what is likely from Carney’s decision.
In many ways Canada’s antagonism is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Trump needs to immediately protect the vulnerable U.S. position to restart strong manufacturing. That’s the reason for the Sec.301 Steel and Aluminum tariffs.
Additionally, the Sec.338 tariffs (50%) are necessary to close the access point, not because Canadian imports pose a threat, but because they are indistinguishable from Chinese component parts that are assembled into finished goods and exported from Canada.
Here’s an example of a possible scenario:
(1) Toyota and Honda have both told Canadian trade officials that without USMCA access to the U.S. market, there is no reason to maintain auto plants in Canada.
(2) The most effective protectionist position that Trump can take would be to terminate the USMCA.
(3) If Trump terminates the USMCA, auto plants in Canada will close.
(4) That’s the moment when Chinese EV companies BYD/GEELY, subsidized heavily by China, will swoop in and purchase those Canadian facilities for pennies on the dollar – based on the entry agreement that Mark Carney has already authorized.
President Trump needs to protect the USA from globalist trade policies on our border. This is why the U.S-Canada trade conflict matters more than any other trade friction in the world. There are trillions at stake.
I am truly sad for the people of Europe and Canada. Even if they expel all the traitors and invaders, they’ll have some hard times ahead.
Revelation 6:5-6 ESV
[5] When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand. [6] And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!”
America, even in our weakened state, is rich beyond measure. Perhaps we are the oil and the wine?
Don/t be sad for Europe and Canada because that will be us the next time a demoRat gets elected to POTUS
THAT……can never be a.lowed to happen….because if it does….they will not repeat their failures of their last chance under Biden…..they will finish us! J6 every single one of us only after they kill or imprisoned Trump and his family!
They ARE the enemy and can NEVER have and hold power again! We really need to END THEM!
4 months until 2026 im-peach-mints start. Senate will remain in range 50+/- 5 or 6. DSA WH in 2028.
Jumpng ju-ju bones. (MB/sd).
I may be oversimplifying, but it looks to me like the best move for the Canadian people, as well as for the US, would be for Canada to become the 51st state. Manufacturing jobs could thrive on both sides of the 49th parallel. And Canadians could be free from the uniparty tyranny that controls their futures now.
But the US would still have Uniparty control, right?
Our only hope is to maintain the administration we have.
I know PDJT is out January 2029, but his admin needs to stay intact to accomplish longterm goals.
Otherwise, a rogue regime like O’biden’s can undo everything.
Canadian Uniparty control would tip the edge to ensure American Uniparty control would be forever on the left.
Except Canadian voters have too many who have gone the globalist route. Add them to our own woke, globalists and those of us who are not woke are done for. Just leave them where they are unattached to our elections.
Oversimplifying, Carney is the CCP’s combination lap dog and snake oil salesman. And, the UK is so hollowed out, that they are virtually beyond repair (and seemingly have no desire for repair). All they have left, is “misery loves company,” so Carney has their blessing to try and drag the US into the same brand of misery that they have already resigned themselves to. Every last one of them hate Western civilization, so they apparently see it as their duty to ensure that the US commits suicide right along side of them.
Meanwhile, the DSA controlled “Democrat” Party (which has no belief in democracy, whatsoever) have drunk the Kool Aid of multiple generations of Marxist indoctrination and given the chance, they are drooling over the opportunity to drive a stake through the heart of the US, nuke and pave and then build a Marxist utopia on its smoldering ashes.
Let them eat snow.
And that’s why President Trump “jokingly” brought up the idea of a 51st state.
We can debate whether or not that would be good for the United States. There are valid points on both sides of the issue.
What is not debatable is that becoming our 51st state will be Canada’s only good option to avoid the completion of their own national suicide.
It would be best in that scenario for Canada to be divided into separate states just like their provinces.
Canada is still just a British realm / Dominion.
The best move would be for Canada to wake up and smell the coffee. They need to figure out what THEY can produce from Canadian resources or trade with the USA/Europe and start making them.
They allowed themselves to become a middleman for Chyna and, in the process, steal industries from the USA and put them in Chyna. They are the street drug dealer for the Big Boss Drug Kingpin.
I don’t want a nation that is full of socialists who look down their noses at Americans and who would happily vote against any MAGA politician that dared to run for office. MAGA would never win another Presidential election again. What a nightmare scenario.
All they have to do is make a truly fair trade deal with the USA but they won’t because they are owned by Chyna. All of their politicians who sold them out know that they have a target on their head if they don’t deliver to Chyna what Chyna wants.
This is their mess to get out of. But I do not want them being absorbed into the USA in any way, shape, or form.
What will probably happen is that Central and South America become economic powerhouses and Canada becomes less than a middle power nation.
But all those liberals we would have to absorb…. I don’t want them. Maybe only Alberta.
Essential summary of the challenge before us.
Among the many aspects of the world which have dropped revelation upon me, the hostility of the Canadians has been one of the most startling. Did not know that was in the background – moving to the foreground.
Keep my head on a swivel.
Here’s a question for when China takes over these auto plants in Germany and Canada. Do the Unions survive or do the people work for slave labor or does China import their own people to do the labor?
Don’t you think China buying the plants in Canada and Europe is just a Trojan horse?
China says hey we are here in your market building in your countries while they slowly import from China more and more and eventually it become too expensive to keep the plants open and they close.
Kinda like, “We’re from China & we’re here to help”. For further reference, see Africa.
Indeed!
Or we are from the United States and we want to buy your auto plants ???
Oh! That’s a good question!
I think you know the answer.
c C p wants the resources of those countries.
They don’t want the people.
@Sundance ‘s feed today is sobering.😢
“Our current tax code punishes companies for doing business in the United States, and encourages them to leave. And that’s what’s happened for so many years… companies are leaving our country and firing all those people… My administration rejects the offshoring model, and we have embraced a new model. It’s called the American model.” ~ from Remarks by President Trump to the National Association of Manufacturers (Budget & Spending) Sept 29, 2017.
Our current tax system punishes workers… and rewards crooked politicians at the local, state, etc. level.
One more: “Washington stood idly by as other countries engaged in unfair trade practices… For eight years, Whirlpool begged the Obama-Biden administration… to protect American workers…” ~ from Remarks by President Trump at Whirlpool Corporation Manufacturing Plant (Economy & Jobs) Aug 6, 2020.
FairTax.org, changes all of that. It eliminates the need for an IRS. It raises enough revenue to fund the government. It creates economic incentives for growth and investment
No. Operate off of the revenue from tariffs and shrink the size and scope of government.
Yes! Repeal the Federal Income tax, move Income taxation to the States. Let the States fund programs themselves, without redustribution from the Feds. Shrink the Federal government back to its Constitutionally-mandated scope, size and cost.
Income tax was a pernacious idea from the start. Other people are not entitled to a tithe on the fruit of your labor merely because you produced it. Let it die.
Ox above is correct. The so-called “Fair Tax” is a Trojan Horse. They collect the same amount of your income..just use a different collection system. The word “Fair” should be obliterated from the dictionary since it’s such a subjective word and is used to deceive.
There is nothing “fair” about the “Fair Tax”.
Amen!!!!
The realist in me believes we’ll never see it because of the “idiots” in Congress: their staff and leaching donors will not allow it.
Repeal the Federal Income Tax. If it needs to be done in steps then start with repeal the Federal Income Tax on anyone making less than “X”.
There is so much waste, fraud, and abuse that could be used to fund the government.
Blackberry/QNX is a Canadian company.
This is going to be interesting what PDJT will do on their technology which is now embedded in lots of devices including cars.
It’s also used by multiple devices.
It’s also used by multiple governments for security.
Excellent video.
Excellent graph.
It’s far easier to scream about the mean ol’ Orange Menace than it is to take a serious look at what’s happening in the real world.
The socialists hate PDJT47 so much that they would rather their countries go down the tubes rather than admit that he’s right.
BINGO!
China has always been the real threat.
They exist with an absolute zero sum mentality.
America stands as the only real barrier to China dominating the globe.
Pretty cute of China, referring to the port, as the Dragon Port.
Tell me how this ends for the globalists after everything is destroyed.
They all learn how to speak Chinese and use chopsticks at the cocktail party.
Don’t forget the “Chinee” will require you to down a jigger of Kweichow Moutai (China’s national liquor).
I called it “Liquid Propane!”
“They all learn how to speak Chinese as they clean up after their masters at the cocktail party.” There, I fixed it for ya!
As a person who is bewildered by all things relating to global economics, financial markets and the global forces behind them, even I can see and sense the rapidly creeping destruction of our national economy, security, prosperity and rights of ownership.
After reading this I now have a clearer understanding of what President Trump is dealing with when he applies these tariffs and directly calls out the cancer they are sending our way. To those Canadians calling us names, hopefully you will awaken be fore you reach the point you no longer can.
Sundance – “Additionally, the Sec.338 tariffs (50%) are necessary to close the access point, not because Canadian imports pose a threat, but because they are indistinguishable from Chinese component parts that are assembled into finished goods and exported from Canada.”
This helps explain the extensive failures in modern vehicles here in the United States. While I fault the American auto industry for inexcusable engineering, in some ways, their reliance on global manufacturing of their own designed and branded parts suffer from this pass-through system that many countries engage in. Perhaps with millions of recalls, they will change their strategy.
President Trump is a genius business man this is a perfect example of why we do not need politicians we need business leaders to run our country.
Honest, moral bussinessmen.
Businessmen are sinful human beings, just like politicians or anyone else.
The problem is not businessmen vs politicians. The problem is sin.
Romans 3: 10-18
“There is none righteous, no, not one;
There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God.
They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable;
There is none who does good, no, not one.
Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit;
The poison of asps is under their lips; Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Their feet are swift to shed blood;
Destruction and misery are in their ways;
And the way of peace they have not known.
There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
James Madison; Federalist 51:
“But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”
“…we need () business leaders to run our country.”
Two comments: We need AMERICA-FIRST business leaders. We have too many “business leaders” who have sold out and who will sell out American workers in favor of higher profits via imports, imported labor, off-shoring, whatever you want to call it.
And nobody needs “to run our country” except for the American people!
I do not even want President TRUMP to run our country, and I do not believe that he wants that either.
Americans “run” America by their collective every-day decisions and – if they are unshackled by politicians and their bureaucratic minions local and national – Americans do, and have done, quite well!
America goes awry when politicians think they can “run America” !!!
correct!!
…and getting back to the original intent of the Constitution is the best guidelines possible for a start.
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I would like to thank all the learned globalists as well as the so called Wall Street geniuses for using their skills and power for helping humanity grow and prosper.
Pardon me, I me for helping Communist China and London victimize the entirety if the good people throughout the world.
i’m not much of a commenter; but eventually we’re going to have an administration that can literally open up everything they want to from canada right?
China is at war with the world.
Biden and Obama started a war with Russia to hide the fact that Democrats and their Billionaire donors are getting rich from the China Grift….. Russia then starts partnering with China and buying tons of China manufactured goods… where the Democrats are once again collecting on the Grift. Then the Globalists set eyes on EU and Canadian manufacturing…. hurting their own countries whilst claiming they are working for the common man/woman at the same time.
Funny how the Chinese model described mirrors the Rockefeller model from over 100 years ago. John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil undercut competition at gas stations until he put them out of business. At which point he was able to raise prices.
So the Walmart model as well….. funny how the Walmart monopoly didn’t get broken up, yet the standard oil one did.
How many politicians own Walmart stock again?
Breaking Standard Oil up made John D. weathier than he had ever imagined he could be.
When Sam was alive it was US products in the stores, after he passed it was hard to find a US product.
Have a cousin that was a tool and die guy, the company made among other things the little green army men that Wally world sold by the bag full.
He had to go to Chyna and train his replacements on the machinery that was sold and shipped there.
Needles to say he has a very low opinion of Wally world.
The founding vision of a corporation seldom continues with the passing of it’s original founders.
My career has been that of a Tool and Die Maker and I have been on the forefront of experiencing the offshoring of our manufacturing base. I now manage a Tool and Die department. I has been my privilege to design and manufacture tooling that produces parts in-house that our purchasing department was once buying from china. It’s my small drop in the bucket of taking work from china and re-shoring it, we need a flood of re-shoring to fill the bucket.
Repeal the 17th amendment
Nothing good came from the progressive movement: the permanent temporary income tax and loss of the Senate to the highest bidder.
And the 16th
Yep!!!
Best move ever.
Then the 16th.
And now you know why China funds our Dem Party and the Terrorist System with dark money. It’s an attack on the US System being instituted by the Trumpster. It is a direct attack on our system of Government through political dissent/terrorist warfare. Time to drop the hammer on them Xi is schedule to meet with PDJT soon. Let’s see what come out of that meeting.
🎯 💯 wrt the Auto sector.
However I feel it’s important to recognize that there’s a key difference in the bigger picture between the CCPs goals, and thus how it acts, in Canada vs. the EU.
In the EU, the CCP with some cooperation with the WEF, the primary goal is to keep the drive to the New World Order moving ahead. Initiatives include Great replacement, Espionage/surveillance, Belt and Road (where possible), IP theft, and of course undercutting prices in Auto and other sectors via subsidies and slave labour. Not sure about the political/military side.
It’s largely an in-region initiative.
But in Canada the CCP and WEF’s primary goal is to destroy the existential threat that President Trump’s burgeoning America represents to their world domination objective.
So in Canada it’s a war against a neighbouring country – America. The CCP already owns many politicians, top brass in the RCMP, Customs and Military. They own the real estate sector, casinos, drugs, some banks and the money laundering systems. I think Canada is now the largest source of Fentanyl coming into America.
To understand the true extent of the CCP’s hold over Canada, I highly recommend spending some time at Sam Cooper’s site. He is the Sundance of “what China’s up to in Canada” for the last decade or more.
https://www.thebureau.news/
Than you for your attention to this matter!
Everyone worldwide is just waiting out Trump being gone. Once he’s out, it’s quickly back to business as usual. The key here is to do no lasting damage. Don’t pass any legislation. Just let Trump be Trump with his EO’s and “deals”. All will be undone easily.
Trump is basically in this alone. Even his own staff, in some cases, aren’t working on the level. Pretty sickening stuff
The fear is not for Canada or EU but our own nation. Dumocrats are fighting every attempt by President Trump to save our nation and, yes repubs are helping. Inside our borders, there are backroom strategies made to help China and slow President Trump until his term is up. The titanic is on the verge of hitting the iceberg and the people continue to party.
Mexico importing ~1,000,000 Chinese vehicles to date ? Nary a mention.
Where are those vehicles headed?
We travel to Panama frequently and use it as a jumping off point for travel in S. America.
In 2018 we were in Panama when the leader of China visited and signed their big agreement.
Fast forward to covid and from 2022 to now the number of China cars in Panama has skyrocketed.
Take an uber and enjoy a fancy SUV made in China.
Price is the attractive feature and if Panama and Europe are any example; keep these China vehicles and parts out of the US or mfg. in the US is toast.
Breitbart just published yet another article, which is more narrowly focused on the automotive dilemma in the EU:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/07/24/reports-spain-becomes-gateway-of-chinese-vehicles-in-europe/
It appears that Marxist Spain is the game plan that Carney wishes to replicate / emulate in North America.
And, WTF, EU? You placed evil tariffs on EV’s, but neglected to place evil tariffs on hybrids. Now, your auto manufacturers and their tens of thousands of suppliers are laying off employees by the hundreds of thousands! This is incompetence on a level never before seen!
It’s also comical that they, themselves, wielded evil tariffs and then criticize the US protectionism, in an attempt to forego the same fate as Western Europe.