[jfengel]

You think that's disproportionate? Imposing a tariff in response to nothing at all is disproportionate.

On a percentage basis, it's merely a finite response to an infinite action. That doesn't seem unfair to me.

Don't expect your enemy to play by your rules when you're the one who made them an enemy.

[tfandango]

Remember we are imposing the tariffs on an emergency basis because of fentanyl crossing the border. Even though everyone, even our mastermind president can't even play along with his own rouse; saying things like he wants manufacturing to move to the US or Canada becoming state 51 to avoid tariffs. There are no more rules anymore.

[rich_sasha]

Tru dat. When Canada gloriously becomes the 51st, hell, maybe even 52nd state, there will be no fentanyl smuggling, or any other smuggling, across the border. Because no border. Genius!

[_zetk]

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[ZeroGravitas]

The legal justification is the story about the border. From an explainer article:

> Part of the reason Trump could impose the tariffs so quickly is because the White House is invoking a sweeping national security law to justify the new levies.

> Until now, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, IEEPA, had been used mainly to impose emergency sanctions on foreign dictators or suspected terrorist groups.

> But the Trump administration argues that the illicit global fentanyl trade and immigrants at the Mexican border both qualify as "unusual and extraordinary" foreign threats to American national security, justifying Trump's use of emergency powers under IEEPA.

[tfandango]

Yes, this is what I was saying.

[quickslowdown]

I'd be curious how much Jack Daniels has donated to their own demise.