Admiral Beez
Superstar
We'll see. Per Google, the US domestic travel and tourism market size is $2.36 trillion. A drop to $169 billion US spending by international visitors is still less than 8% of total US tourism.
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Mihairokov
Active Member
This isn't about domestic tourism, I was speaking about international tourism, of which they're losing billions of dollars on currently.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
You replied to my post about domestic tourism. My point was that if domestic tourism holds strong, which is 90% of all US travel and tourism spend, the changes in international tourism will have a reduced impact. I've also read that Americans, knowing how much of the world thinks they're shite are staying home and spending their tourism dollars in the USA, which may further offset the drop in international tourism.
'It's just not worth it': The US travellers afraid to travel abroad right now
Declining trust in airline safety, a rise in US citizens being detained when reentering the country and anti-American sentiment abroad have some rethinking their summer travels.
www.bbc.com
afransen
Senior Member
A lot of it is wantonly overstepping bounds if not illegal.Trump hasn't pass any legislation on the border, and yet the crossings are way down. Instead he's using his Executive powers, including directing federal agencies to resume construction of physical border barriers, reinstating or modifying immigration enforcement policies, including expedited removals and deploying more resources to border enforcement, including army units. That's where Biden failed on the border, always trying to build a consensus in Congress and to correct the border through legislation, when the people wanted to see POTUS wield his own powers to get it done.
vs.
Ask PolitiFact: What can Biden do to ‘shut down the border’?
President Joe Biden says he has done everything under his authority to try to reduce illegal immigration at the U.S. souwww.politifact.com
Trump issues a slew of immigration-related executive orders on first day of new term
The orders include declaring a national emergency to deploy military personnel to the border, suspending refugee resettlement and ending birthright citizenship.www.nbcnews.com
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Agreed, but the people were sufficiently frustrated on the border to turn a blind eye to Trump’s overstepping. That was Biden’s failure, leaving the people so angry that they’d reach for any populist that promised to take action.
picard102
Senior Member
He's using the power of disappearing you completely, same reason tourism is down.
You conveniently left out the part about Americans being afraid of being shipped off to foreign prisons upon re-entry into the US.
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
...as I've said, it's not the immigrants or immigration the US has to worry about. It's what they're proposing and doing about it is what we all really need to worry about.
zang
Senior Member
Except how many US Citizens are going to be even thinking of travelling with economic uncertainty dangling over their heads? Time will tell, but I’d be surprised if we don’t see big drops there as well. Sure, the people who could afford to travel abroad might stay domestic, but the people who could only afford to travel domestically might be rethinking their choice. Combined with the obstacle that is a requirement for either a Real ID or US passport for domestic flights, and things start to get a bit messy.
Northern Light
Superstar
A U.S. court has ruled most (not all) of the Trump Tariffs unlawful and injuncted their application.
From the above.
The Trump Administration has already filed an appeal.
From the above.
The Trump Administration has already filed an appeal.
What about the penguins?
EBT
Active Member
Welcome news. Trumps tariffs were always illegal on many levels. Presidents have never had the power to set taxes. Tariffs are taxes and Trump usurped that power from Congress.
A President should never have emergency powers to arbitrarily destroy private companies or ingratiate them. If this has proved anything it is that one man should not retain these vast and complex powers. The SCOTUS will undoubtedly rule against Trump because his tariff scheme was halfcocked, mathematically inaccurate, vindictive, and disproportionately hurt small businesses. This was the definition of cronyism.
DOW futures up +577 right now.
For Canada's auto-sector dangers still exist. As part of Trump "big, beautiful spending bill" is a provision making interest on car loans tax-deductible but only for cars assembled in the United States. This is a massive non-tariff barrier for Canadian assembled cars. This bill passed the House of Representatives last week and is now in the hands of the Senate.
If passed by the Senate with this provision intact this becomes law, and I believe it will doom future exports of Canadian cars to the United States. Trump will have been rewarded with the big prize he has been after. Canadian-made cars have always been the biggest bone of contention for Trump. I have sent numerous emails to PM Carney and Premier Ford alerting them to this threat and so far, have not seen any action or even acknowledgment of my emails.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Canada should have considered a tariff on all US-origin services, rather than (or not just) products. So, streaming, Google services, iCloud, Salesforce, etc, etc..... 40% tariff on those fees.
Richard White
Senior Member
That would likely be more ideal.
Coffee for example has skyrocketed recently. I remember when you used to be able to buy Illy Keurig Pods at a cost of $8.00 for 10 pods.
Those same Illy Keurig Pods are now $15.00.
It's worth noting that Coffee isn't grown in America and that I'm pretty sure those pods were imported there.
afransen
Senior Member
There are Keurig pods made in Canada.
afransen
Senior Member
That works best when there are substitutes. I don't disagree though.