Trump expected to lift some Canadian tariffs to help Susan Collins

newsOct 23, 202615355

The White House moved Friday to exempt some Canadian products from President Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs in a targeted bid to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins and other Republicans ahead of the midterm elections, the Wall Street Journal reports. Documents posted on the White House website show duties will be removed for certain agricultural and forestry items, including specified machinery, refrigeration products, packaging and plywood sheets. At the same time the documents impose 50% tariffs on other Canadian goods such as carpet, certain valves and waste products. The Wall Street Journal says the change could come as soon as Friday and frames the shift as intended to aid Collins’s reelection prospects. Sources told the Journal the adjustment may raise levies on some categories while easing costs for U.S. buyers of the exempted farm and forestry inputs.

Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉

@pguist.bsky.social

BREAKING: The U.S. is officially DROPPING tariffs on more Canadian farming goods and equipment after Maine Senator Collins warned that American growers can't afford to replace them. The midterms are days away, Canada's pressure is working, and Trump is starting to blink. 💪🇨🇦 ~ A Canadian Outlook

1243h ago

Qtain P. Faulkes13

If she wins, he'll put them back on immediately. If she loses, he'll put them back on immediately. It's temporary reprieve at best.

Henriksen 🇨🇦9

Apparently we do have something they need. 🙄

KayElan7ISO64🇨🇦🇪🇺5

Fuck Trump! Fuck the GOP!

pamc84.bsky.social4

Keep on keeping on Canada 🍻🍻🍻 Y'all are making tRump look like the goddamn idiot he's always been and that the entire world laughs at! Thank y'all Northern sisters and bothers ✊️

kingbb.bsky.social3

TACO trying to buy votes!!

NS Alpaca 🇨🇦3

Guess while he is playing Go Fish with all his cards, other countries are playing chess. US will never get back the alliances they threw away.

Steven T. Dennis

@steventdennis.bsky.social

Trump doing Susan Collins a favor, nixing some tariffs on Canada she says are hurting her state's agricultural and coastal industries, BUT imposing others to make up the lost revenue. Troy Jackson mocking as her bringing "a cup of water to put out the fire."

882h ago

Daniel Drezner

@dandrezner.bsky.social

Huh that's weird I thought trade wars were supposed to be good and easy to win. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

593h ago

Joe Sudbay

@joesudbay.bsky.social

Oh look who is trying to save Susan Collins That whole game she played of being "independent" from Trump was always bullshit Trump relies on her and needs her vote and, now, she needs him

134h ago

ℂ𝕙𝕖𝕫 💙 🌊2

Only idiots would take a temp deal that will eventually cause long run grief. collins has been busted recently. Just how long has she been screwing to keep her "only two terms" "position"? It's not out of line to surmise collins has been a political whore.

meh333.bsky.social1

She owes him for dropping investigations into her.

Paultergeist A.1

Why would rolling back tariffs help? I thought tariffs were good. Just how quickly does he think this is going to work? Like the Titanic stopping on a dime.

Innsmouth Looksmaxxing

@gonebabygone.bsky.social

There's a good chance it works because it's her but Susan Collins being in the party led by Donald Trump and going with "ermm problematic much😬" as a closer is so brazenly cynical LMAO

152h ago

Nathaniel William Horadam

@horadam.bsky.social

If I was Troy Jackson I would say "Susan Collins wants Mainers begging Donald Trump for tariff relief every time an election rolls around. Put me in the Senate and we'll take away his tariff powers once and for all."

113h ago

Naida46

@naida46.bsky.social

A lawsuit challenges Trump’s 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian🍁 goods The suit by the Gellert Global Group, a New Jersey food importer, asks the US Court of International Trade to declare Trump’s “Section 338” tariffs unlawful & order refunds for duties already paid www.cnbc.com/2026/10/20/t...

62h ago

Mark

@qwtchz.bsky.social

Trump to exempt some Canadian products from tariffs amid midterm pressure, but it won't do any good. All Republ;ican candidates will lose spectacularly. 👍😂

33h ago

JoeCGiles

@joecgiles.bsky.social

The tariffs are in place because Collins has enabled Trump for almost 2 years. MAGA is dumb enough to fall for this fraud. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/23/t...

73h ago

stupid white hippie

@stupidwhthippie.bsky.social

susan collins is now going to take credit for getting trump to lift canadian tariffs that he levied in 2025 and that she's had almost 2 years to stop but didn't do sh*t and that he'll inevitably re-levy against canada after the midterms for which susan will go back to not doing jack sh*t abt it 😡

84h ago

JeffTrnka

@jefftrnka.bsky.social

Trump to exempt some Canadian products from tariffs amid midterm pressure. Maine Sen. Susan Collins says some Canadian goods will soon be exempt from U.S. tariffs. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

33h ago

tomwellborn3rd

@wellborn.net

Fuckface torches relations with Canada, renames Lake Ontario "Lake America" and posts machine-gun geese, then eases a few tariffs eleven days out because Susan Collins is sinking. One idiot with a Truth Social account wrecks a trade relationship, then patches it up for votes.

63h ago

manuele.bsky.social2

maybe even the people who would have voted for Collins can see now that they are played by Susan Collins and Trump.

jimschef2025.bsky.social2

Time for her and sleep head to go. Thank you for your service NOT!

RFK Brain Worm Jr.1

Susan Collins is a decrepit liar.

The Liberal BoJack

@thelibbojack.bsky.social

Liked by thedemocraticcoalition and others troyisourboy Susan Collins Is Campaigning w/ Former Senator Joe Manchin. He is the ONLY Democrat Who Voted To Confirm Brett Kavanaugh, Who Then Overturned Roe v. Wade. She Still Doesn’t Regret Her Vote. Let’s Make Sure She Does On November 3rd.

63h ago