If you’re trying to build domestic manufacturing capacity in a specific industry in which many other countries are competitive, placing tariffs on foreign products in that specific sector can encourage people to buy local until your manufacturers are competitive in the global market.

Similarly, if a foreign country is flooding your market with an excess of some product (dumping) and it’s depressing the price of that product and putting your domestic manufacturers out of business, tariffs can help protect them while you work through treaty processes like WTO complaints.

Trump is doing neither of those things. Blanket tariffs are more likely to collapse your economy than grow it (see: Smoot-Hawley). His tariffs on specific products like steel and aluminium are unlikely to grow American manufacturing capacity in those sectors. Modernizing steel manufacturing in the US would take decades. Aluminum smelting is really energy intensive, so US aluminium producers can’t compete very well with Canadian aluminum producers because Canadian producers have access to cheap and plentiful hydro-electric power. During his last term, steel and aluminium smelting capacity in the US actually shrank and the higher costs of materials in downstream manufacturing put hundreds of thousands of people out of work.

The Handbasket is run by Marisa Kabas who is a well respected independent journalist who has broken several stories about rumoured Trump EOs that turned out to be accurate.

French’s is owned by McCormick now but their ketchup is still made in Canada from Canadian tomatoes. Their mustard is made in the US.

Alcohol is being tariffed but most of the Provinces have indefinitely blocked the import or sale of alcohol from the US anyway.

The full list is here: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/03/list-of-products-from-the-united-states-subject-to-25-per-cent-tariffs-effective-march-4-2025.html

The OG Nazis were actually bozos too, they just had very good propaganda. So good that you’re still seeing the effects today.

Dillon’s makes great stuff and they were really supportive of the local community at the height of the COVID pandemic.