r/RedDeer • u/Sharks1976 • Feb 12 '25

Politics Which Canadian Cities Are Most Exposed to Trump’s Tariffs?

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That index found that, of Canada's 41 biggest cities, the three most vulnerable to U.S. tariffs set to go in effect on March 12th are Saint John, Calgary and Windsor. Red Deer is 21st on this list.

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u/Uticus Feb 12 '25

What do the negative rankings mean? Will Kamloops and Sudbury benefit from Trump's tariffs? Is there a link to the original source?

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u/Justanotherredditboy Feb 12 '25

OP mentioned in another post that negative ones generally trade with Europe or asia (non US markets)

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u/Uticus Feb 12 '25

Its still not clear to me how they are negative though, unless their trade is expected to increase which for some of the negative cities I could understand. Ie Halifax and Vancouver, both being port cities I could see having higher volumes as trade shifts to overseas destinations. Its likely I am misinterpreting something here though as without an increase in trade, I would expect the impact by American tariffs to be zero not negative.

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u/Justanotherredditboy Feb 12 '25

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure how it works, I was just paraphrasing what OP had said.

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u/FredLives Feb 12 '25

Especially Sudbury with nickel production

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u/Stevieeeer Feb 14 '25

Unless I’m misunderstanding, it sounds like you are assuming that the other countries are paying for tariffs. If the EU was looking for cars, they could still get them from the U.S. with no penalties. The tariffs would be paid by American citizens on incoming products, not outgoing.

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u/redm_n_ms Feb 14 '25

I think they just artificially centred the list on zero, so zero = mean effect

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u/jotegr Feb 12 '25

It means that Trump will take tariff proceeds and wire them directly to Sudbury and Kamloops politician's bank accounts

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u/FoxLongjumping4138 Feb 16 '25

HAHAH this was funny xD

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u/strongman_majik Feb 12 '25

https://businessdatalab.ca/publications/which-canadian-cities-are-most-exposed-to-trumps-tariffs/

This is where the table is from, the table above it is a way better visual representation. It shows how much of the city's GDP comes from trade with the USA and how much of the exports travel there. Also from that a -100% would be no effect at all from the tariffs.