The American economy is ending despite tariffs. Will it work?
Regarding every indicator, the US economy is holding significantly well. When Donald Trump started his global trade war, economists and markets said his tariff policy would slow down the economy, increase prices and reduce global trade dramatically.
And yet, stocks are at high levels all the time, the country’s employment is strong, its economy is expanding and inflation has not increased expected.
The Canadian economy has shown amazing flexibility, as well, starting with consumer expenses last month and unemployment has declined.
Economists told CBC News that it was not clear that the effect of the tariff was reduced, or if the pain ahead is further. But they say that flexibility in both countries is critical, and if the trade war deteriorates or expands then it can be launched quickly.
Lack of vengeance
BMO chief economist Douglas Porter says two major factors have recently been running American flexibility.
Porter said, “Other nations are not really vengeance against the US, so their own exports are not facing that pressure.
Meanwhile, American businesses have not been passed at the cost of tariffs. For example, General Motors released earnings last week stating that Trump’s tariff policies recorded a 35 percent decline in profits in the second quarter. The automaker stated that tariffs on cars and parts caused US loss of $ 1.1 billion in their quarterly earnings.
But still, it has not increased prices.
Royce Mendes, Managing Director, Desjardins Capital Markets, says it is becoming a trend among the affected American companies.
Mendes said, “Some companies may choose to eat tariff growth instead of attracting President Trump’s Iri,” said.
GM Stock fell on this news, but has been rebound since then crossing the deficit and climbing almost all the way where it was before its earnings were published.
Financial markets have some very unstable sessions, including tariffs, and large rallies are included when exempted. But the stock markets in both Canada and the US are at a high level or near – which investors believe that the flexibility we are seeing will run.
A store of products
However, the question is whether the impact of the tariff is just delayed.
When Levy was first declared a previous spring, businesses around the world scrambled to evacuate the doors and the product in the United States. This has led to a large reserves of products – and means that American importers have not yet had to bear the worst tariffs.
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BMO’s Porter said, “It was going to walk much ahead and it could be a big reason that we have not seen much impact yet.” “Maybe there is some pain, but I don’t think it is going to be as bad as many economists were frying earlier this year, at least for America”
Canada’s economy has also shown flexibility
But both economists point to the fact that the Canadian economy has also performed better than almost anyone’s expectation.
Economic growth shrunk in April, but only 0.1 percent. Statistics Canada says that there is a possibility of a decline of 0.1 percent for May. (Those numbers will be confirmed on Thursday.) The unemployment rate has actually started decreasing since being at seven percent in May.
And last week’s retail sales data showed that consumer expenses had resumed in June.
Claire Fan, a senior economist at RBC, said, “We are pointing to this widespread flexibility in consumer expenses.”
She says that the consumer spirit drowned at a height of uncertainty in spring. But since then, RBC crunched US Customs data and found Exemption for Kusma-Anupal Husbandry Products The average effective tariff rate is dragged down to 2.3 percent below all the way.
“There is a reflection of President Trump’s overall strategy, which is very aggressively to come out quickly, but then walk back to things. I mean, Tariff is not as punitive to Canada as it is believed to be in the beginning – not closer to it,” Mends of Desjardins said.
Area-specific pain
However, areas such as auto, steel, aluminum and wood have caused real damage. Now the concern is that Custains for Cusma-Cousma-Complin products have not been secured by Canada.
“Until a trade deal reaches to reduce the US-Canada tariff until 1 August, when determined to apply the new American tariff, we expect job loss and high prices from tariffs to squeeze disposable income and motivate homes to tighten their purse string.”
Talking to reporters at Canadian-US trade minister Dominic Labtle, Washington, DC, said that Canada would accept only a deal when the Canadian economy would be one of the best interests of the workers and the table on the table.
On the one hand, the Trump administration will see the flexibility relative to the American economy as a reason, which will be as a reason for more and more punitive tariffs to push and harder.
But the growth will not be bad just for the Canadian economy.
Right now, most businesses and consumers on both sides of the border are given shelter with the worst effects of tariffs.
This shelter depends on a penalty and difficult balance of importers, some costs, exporters abandon some prices and countries, which limit retaliation.
Putting that balance forward comes with risk on both sides of the dispute.
