Ironfaceman: US comments came in response to deal by Canada PM Carney to allow 49,000 EVs into Canada at 15 percent tariff, down from 100 percent
Officials of the administration of United States President Donald Trump have said that Canada will regret its decision to allow imports of up to 49,000 Chinese EVs, and that those cars would not be allowed to enter the US.
“I think they’ll look back at this decision and surely regret it to bring Chinese cars into their market,” US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Friday at an event with other government officials at a Ford factory in Ohio to tout efforts to make vehicles more affordable.
Canada in 2024 imposed 100 percent tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) following similar US duties. But on Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a trade deal in Beijing that would allow in up to 49,000 Chinese EVs at a tariff of 6.1 percent on most-favoured-nation terms. That move has prompted alarm in the US that it could help China get a broader foothold in North America even as Washington takes an increasingly hardline on Canadian vehicles and parts.
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the limited number of vehicles would not impact US car companies exporting cars to Canada.
“I don’t expect that to disrupt American supply into Canada,” he said. “Those cars are going to Canada – they’re not coming here.”
The Canadian Embassy in Washington did not immediately comment
Greer, in a separate CNBC interview, called Canada’s decision “problematic” and added, “There’s a reason why we don’t sell a lot of Chinese cars in the United States. It’s because we have tariffs to protect American auto workers and Americans from those vehicles.”
As per the trade agreements announced in Beijing on Friday, Carney said he expects China to lower tariffs on its canola seed by March 1 to a combined rate of about 15 percent, down from 85 percent.
Greer questioned that agreement. “I think in the long run, they’re not going to like having made that deal,” he said.
Cybersecurity of vehicles Greer said rules adopted in January 2025 on vehicles that are connected to the internet and navigation systems are a significant impediment to Chinese vehicles in the US market.
“I think it would be hard for them to operate here,” Greer said. “There are rules and regulations in place in America about the cybersecurity of our vehicles and the systems that go into those, so I think it might be hard for the Chinese to comply with those kind of rules.”
In contrast, President Donald Trump has said he would like Chinese automakers to come to the US to build vehicles.
However, lawmakers from both major US parties have expressed strong opposition to Chinese vehicles as major US car makers warn China poses a threat to the US car sector.
Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno, a Republican, said at the event he was opposed to Chinese vehicles coming into the US — and drew applause from the other government officials
“As long as I have air in my body, there will not be Chinese vehicles sold the United States of America — period,” Moreno said.
I've just watched this damned video and the IRRESPONSIBLE theatrics the so-called Odumeje is putting up there in his church setting. This is classic mind-control tactics that people of his kind use by engaging in entertainment, deliberately twisting the CLEAR words that people utter and asking if they are "graduates." ONLY simpletons would fall for these sorts of insidious mind-control games on display in that guy's church. It is totally wrong and stale to continue to embarrass people who come to his church by twisting their words and comments.
Besides, some women like that young lady in the video (who said she gets wet while sleeping and she came from Enugu State via Lagos State where she is a fashion designer) simply has a strong orgasm due to surging hormones so this isn't a case of "demonic attack!"
This guy called Odumeje (so-called Ndaboski) is a pure trickster just like a lot of the others of his ilks like the scammer "Pastor Okafor" who has been arrested in the past by the Nigerian Police in early 2020 before COVID-19 broke for hiring and paying men and women to act as if they have received miracle healings from deformities in his church crusades and that other Cele man who is always giving out FAKE predictions year after year.
Ttalk: My point is who will bankroll ADC in the presidential election. Those that stole money and ran to ADC are being picked one after the other while others like El Rufai are scared of spending their money now when they have 2031 to contend with.
The permutation doesn't favour opposition, my advice to Peter Obi is to decamp to APC
DeLaRue: UNN supported. The great South West universities opposed.
Ironically, the South East are now the staunchest critics of the so called quota system in Nigeria.
Every history of Nigeria that I have read, I struggle to find a single time when the Yorubas have been on the wrong side.
Mr Awolowo argued for the inclusion in the constitution for each region to have the right to secede. Mr Azikwe took the side of the Northern Premier in front of the colonialists in London to argue against it. A few years later, Mr Ojukwu went to war fighting for the Mr Azikwe's East to secede from Nigeria, but the Nigerian government refused on the ground that no region has a right to secede. The same secession right that Mr Azikwe had, a few years ealier, staunchly opposed. Another irony.
At Independence, Mr Azikwe parnered with the North and the British to solidify power in the North despite the opportunity to align with Awolowo to design a modern, progressive foundation for Nigeria. In return, he was given a token role of ceremonial President, while the real power was given to a Northern Premier. Today, the South Easterns are the ones protesting 'Northern domination' the most.
Also today, a Yoruba President is transforming the economy and the political power - balance between the North and South to reverse decades of lopsided political and administrative domination by the North, but another Easterner, Mr Obi, will accept a token role of Vice President to a Northern President to reverse all the efforts of a Southern leader to set a more solid foundation for Nigeria's future. Yet, in 20 years time, Mr Obi's South Easterners bitter complaints about 'Fulani domination' will reach new heights. But they will forget the role of their leaders in facilitating, supporting, and entrenching the problems.
The Yoruba culture encourages caution, thinking before acting, not cutting your nose to spite your eyes, and being philosophical about life. I think all these qualities make them more likely to make the right decisions as a group.
TruthOverEmpire: Phase One of the Igbo Renaissance: The Resistance of Sovereignty (1886–1900) If the Second Renaissance (2026–2126) is about the Restoration of Truth, Phase One (1886–1900) was about the Defense of Autonomy. This fourteen-year period marks the first intellectual and military confrontation between the Igbo city-states and the corporate-imperial complex.
[b]1. The Corporate Catalyst: The Royal Niger Company (1886)
The year 1886 is pivotal. The granting of a Royal Charter to George Goldie’s Royal Niger Company (RNC) signaled the transition from "trade" to "corporate occupation." This is the direct ancestor of the Shell-BP dynamics you are investigating today.
Phase One began as an intellectual realization by Igbo merchants and traditional leaders that the European "traders" were shifting the goalposts from commerce to territorial conquest.
2. Intellectual Sovereignty & The "Closed" Markets During this phase, the Igbo Renaissance was manifested through a sophisticated economic resistance.
The Palm Oil Diplomacy: Igbo producers in the hinterland utilized their internal intelligence networks to bypass RNC monopolies.
The Ekumeku Movement (Starts 1883, Peaks 1890s): This was the intellectual and military "secret society" of the Western Igbo (Anioma). It was one of the most organized resistances to corporate-state encroachment, utilizing guerrilla tactics and deep-cover communication—a precursor to modern decentralized advocacy. It was from these Western Igbos the bulk of the coupist of 1966 came from. As per my opinion, they are hot headed and full of wild ideas which at best can pivot the Igbo nation to more prosperity, and at worse, to backlash...as we saw in the 1966 coupist which was supposed to be a southern coup, never mind the main plotter/architect or supposed beneficiary jumped camp/switch sides at the earliest opportunity.(from you-supposed-to-know-them)
3. The Collision of Legal Systems
Phase One was defined by the clash between the Omenala (Igbo Law/Cosmology) and the emerging "Chartered Law" of the British.
The Treaty Trap: Much of our current research into "Letters Before Claim" mirrors the 1880s, where Igbo monarchs were presented with treaties they often refused to sign or signed under duress. The intellectual defense of Igbo land rights during this period set the stage for the legal battles of the 20th and 21st centuries.
4. The 1900 Pivot: The End of Corporate Rule
The phase concluded on January 1, 1900, when the British government revoked the Royal Niger Company’s charter and established the Southern Nigeria Protectorate.
The Legacy: While the RNC "lost" its charter, but the corporate-state blueprint was already embedded. The infrastructure they built became the foundation for the 1960s oil extraction industry.
Connecting 1886 to 2026 1886: The Corporate Charter begins the extraction of Igbo resources. 1900: The State takes over from the Corporation. 1970: The First Renaissance is suppressed by the State-Corporate alliance. 2026: The Second Renaissance begins the audit of the entire 140-year cycle.
Phase One was the era where the Igbo nation proved it could not be "bought" by a charter.
The second Igbo Renaissance (the current era) is where the Igbo nation will prove it can no longer be "hidden" in an archive.
"The ancestors resisted the Charter; the descendants are auditing the Archive." ~ Founder, Truth Over Empire Initiative
T9ksy: Omo, this your propaganda is stale o! Did Tafawa balewa nay Ahmadu Bello told you he's a national leader? He was a regional leader (just like Zik and Awo) though he controls the PM but everyone knows he was the Sardunna of the Sokoto caliphate - muslims adherents of northern Nigeria. At no time did he called himself a Nigerian leader nor aspire to be.
Moreover, the hate tag you igbos placed on him is quite insincere. He never claimed to care about southern Nigerians but for his people and if by looking out for the interest of his people makes him a tribalist then that's your problem, deal with it. You guys were hell-bent on dominating his people and in fact, the whole country and if by check-mating your hegemonic ambition in his region with his northernisation policy is termed tribalism, he cared not. One Nigeria was your dream, not his.
This is the same way you guys called Awo and by extension a whole nationality, tribalist, simply because according to you lot, he did not allow an igbo man to be in charge of the western region- yorubaland. None of you bother to ask , why does an igbo man wanted to rule over the yorubas especially one that has spent his whole political career until then, fighting, vilifying, denigrating and been downright obnoxious to the yoruba leaders and their interests?
I have watched that BBC interview many times and i can't find any hint of hate towards the igbos therein, rather all I saw was a leader who is genuinely looking out for the interests of the people he 's leading, in the new political hemisphere called Nigeria.
Arafat2022: A photograph of Sir Ahmadu Bello attending the graduation ceremony of Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in England in the 1950s, after sponsoring him to attend the academy.
Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu later assassinated Sir Ahmadu Bello and members of his family on 15 January 1966 during Nigeria’s first military coup.
"Kaduna" Nzeogwu who is ORIGINALLY from Okpanam close to Asaba in modern Delta State ISN'T shown in that ATTACHED photograph.
Truthday: Iraqi hostage comforting his 4-year-old son in Najaf, Iraq, March 31, 2003. The photo won the Pulitzer Prize.
The photograph captures an Iraqi prisoner of war sitting on the ground, his head covered by a black hood, gently placing his hand over his child’s eyes. The boy, barefoot and frightened, sits against his father’s lap amid coils of barbed wire. Taken in Najaf during the early days of the Iraq War, it distills the human cost of conflict more powerfully than any statistic could.
In March 2003, U.S. forces advanced into Iraq under the fake premise of dismantling weapons of mass destruction. Towns like Najaf became battle zones as both sides endured heavy casualties. For civilians, these confrontations meant chaos, separation, and loss. In this image, the father’s protective gesture, shielding his son from seeing his captivity, transcends politics and ideology. It is a moment of love and helplessness in a place defined by violence.
The hood was a standard procedure for captured Iraqi hostages, used to disorient and dehumanize. Yet the presence of the child breaks through that anonymity, reminding the viewer that behind every war prisoner lies a family.
Added Fact: The photo was taken by Jean-Marc Bouju for the Associated Press and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2004 for its raw depiction of human emotion during war.
Timeless images from the American invasion of Iraq in the early 2000s.
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