Canada just slapped a 50% tariff on American steel and aluminum. Doubled it from 25%. The math checks out if you're wondering whether Canadians can multiply by two.
This is part of CA$27.6 billion in retaliatory tariffs because apparently when you convert rage into Canadian dollars you get a number that specific. Someone in Ottawa ran the spreadsheet. Checked it twice. Sent it to three committees. Filed it in triplicate. Then announced it like they just discovered fire.
The trade war deepens. That's the word they used. Deepens. Like it's a f*cking wound or a philosophical crisis. It's a tariff. You raise the price of metal. The other guy raises the price of maple syrup or whatever Canada exports besides apologies and hockey players who lost their teeth.
Retail traders are already Googling "how to trade tariffs" and getting ready to buy steel ETFs at the absolute peak because they read a headline and felt something. That feeling is called confusion but they mistake it for conviction. They'll open a position. Watch it bleed for six weeks. Then post on Reddit about how the markets are rigged because Canada didn't personally notify them before implementing trade policy.
The technical setup here is immaculate by the way. A symmetrical triangle forming between two countries who share the world's longest undefended border but can't agree on the price of rebar. The breakout level is precisely nobody cares. Support at who gives a shit. Resistance at this changes nothing.
Steel costs more now. Aluminum too. Ford will pass the cost to you. You'll pay it. You'll complain. You'll buy the truck anyway. Canada knows this. America knows this. The only people who don't know this are the ones panic-buying uranium stocks because they think tariffs are bullish for commodities they can't pronounce.
Trade wars are just two governments discovering that addition and subtraction still work exactly the same way they did in third grade.
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