The Canadians and Danes boycotting American products

Todd Bremen are no longer buying their favorite red wine, which is from California.

An experienced, he is one of the increasing number of people in Canada, Europe and other parts of the world, who are avoiding buying American products due to the treatment of President Trump’s tariffs and American colleagues.

Mr. Breman, who lives in Nova Scotia, says, “I have worked with American forces in my life. It is just deeply disturbed and disappointing where we have been given historical relations which are in our two countries.”

“But I think it’s time to stand and counted, and in my mind, it means supporting the local and Canadian business.”

Together with his wife, Mr. Breman replaced all American products that he used to buy, including his previous wine of wine, with a Canadian option.

“Lucky phone box red wine, which is from here in Nova Scotia, is very good,” they say.

To determine which products are Canadians, although not always easy. “Sometimes labeling can be misleading,” says Mr. Breman.

To help, he now uses an app on his phone that can scan the barcode of a product and identify where it is from. If the product is identified as American, the app suggests Canadian options.

The app, called a maple scan, is one of many emergence in Canada to help people buy local. Other people include Buy Canadians, is it Canadian? And Canadian shop.

Maple scan founder Sasha Ivanov says that 100,000 have been downloaded since the launch in his app last month. He believes that the speed around purchasing Canadian is to live here.

“A lot of Canadian people have told me, ‘I am not going back’. It is important that we support the local,” they say.

The imports offered by Canadian Trump, such as Mr. Breman, are boycotting American products in response to a fleet of tariffs. These included all foreign cars, 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum and 25% tariffs on other Canadians and Mexican items.

Meanwhile, other European Union exports will get tariffs of 20%, while the UK is facing 10%.

Trump says tariffs will promote American manufacturing, increase tax revenue and reduce US trade deficit. However, they have taken away global markets, which have fallen rapidly in the last month.

Trump has expressed a desire to join the US as his 51st state for Canada, a hurry to reject some Canadian government strongly.

Ottawa has also responded with additional tariffs on the US auto sector with C $ 60BN ($ 42bn; £ 32BN) in the counter tariff.

And the number of Canadian people has declined sufficient Travel to America.

Groups dedicated to boycott American goods have also emerged in European countries. The speed behind boycott in Denmark is particularly strong, whose territory of Greenland Trump has said that he wants to acquire.

The operator of Denmark’s largest grocery store, the Salling Group recently introduced a Black Star on the pricing label to represent European brands.

Principal Bo Albertus, a school principal living in Skovlunde, a suburb of Copenhagen, says that it was his way to take action in the boycott. He says, “The statements made by Trump about buying Greenland were too much for me.”

“I can’t do anything about the American political system, but I can vote with my credit card.”

One of the first tricks of Mr. Albertus was to cancel their membership for American streaming services, including Netflix, Disney Plus and Apple TV. “My 11 -year -old daughter is a little angry about it, but it is like that. She understands why I do this,” she says.

Sri Albertus is an administrator for a Danish Facebook group who is dedicated to helping people to boycott American goods. In the group, which has 90,000 members, people share recommendations for local options for our goods, from shoes to lawnmower.

Shri Albertus says: “This is a movement that is much larger than our small country, so it adds all.”

Mette Herulf Christiansen, the owner of a grocery store in Copenhagen, has stopped stocking Brodels in his store in his store stocking American products such as cheatos crisps and joy chocolate. She is replacing them with Danish or European products where possible.

Ms. Christian is also exchanging products that she uses at home. She looks somewhat easier than others. “Coca-Cola is easy to replace a Danish brand Jolly Cola,” she says. “But technology, like Facebook, avoiding it is completely difficult.”

He believes that the boycott movement in Denmark is helping people to channel their anger in Trump’s policies and rhetoric. “I think it is good for Danish people to feel good,” she says.

Economics Professor Douglas Irwin at Dartmouth College in the US, who specializes in the history of American trade policy, believes that the economic impact of the boycott may be limited. “It is difficult to judge how important the consumer boycott will be in terms of reducing trade with the United States,” they say.

“In the past, the boycott has not been long and has not achieved much. It begins as a hostile response to some American action, but fade over time,” they say.

However, for now, the growing Canadian spirit in Canada is increasing sales for many local brands. Canadian grocery CEO was posted on LinkedIn that the weekly sales of Canadian products were by double digits.

Bianka Parsons from Alberta in Canada, behind an initiative to promote locally manufactured goods, called Made in Alberta, which says that interest has increased since the tariff is introduced. “Now we are receiving more than 20,000 hits (on site) every two weeks.”

Ms. Parsons, who is the Executive Director of Alberta Food Processor Association, says: “The producers have reached us and say: ‘I am selling at shops that I will never sell before, thank you very much.”

Many Canadian provinces, including Ontario and Nova Scotia, have removed US-made alcoholic beverages from their liquor shop shelves in response to tariffs, a step by Brown-Forman, the manufacturer of Jack Daniel, has said “worse than tariffs”.

American businesses that feel impact are Calledonia Spirits, a distillers located in the vermont near the Canadian border. Ryan Christiansen, president and head distiller of Caledonia, says that there was an order on the track for shipment for the canceled Quebec after the announcement of tariffs in his business.

“My understanding is that everyone is just a little aggressive and unfortunately, I think the US has started,” Sri Christiansen says. “I think the action that the US took needed a counter reaction.

“If it was above me, I was trying to solve it in a favorable way, and I hope leaders in America take that view.”

Ethan Fisk, co-founder of Berlap & Barrel, an American Spice Company in New York, also exports to Canada, says he is more concerned with the impact of tariffs on his company’s imports and is growing inflation in the US than consumer boycott.

He says: “I think it is the perception that, if you boycott an American company, it is going to influence the economy and perhaps changes the situation. I think it is not accurate, unfortunately, unfortunately.

“(We) Economy is crashing everyone in itself. Businesses like us are struggling without boycott.”