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President Trump has frequently cited U.S. dairy farmers as beneficiaries of his trade policies with Canada, despite the significant damage these policies have caused to the industry. Mateo Kehler, CEO of Jasper Hill Farm in Vermont, reports that his company’s export business to Canada collapsed due to tariffs and retaliatory measures. Despite acknowledging the difficulties faced by American dairy exporters under Trump's policies, Kehler also expresses understanding for Canadian consumers who are boycotting U.S. goods as a form of resistance. The article highlights how Trump's approach has led to losses across the board, with no clear winners emerging from the trade dispute.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-02,
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Story summary
In his trade war with Canada, U.S. President Donald Trump initially claimed to be helping the U.S. dairy industry by criticizing high Canadian tariffs on dairy products, which he stated were as high as 250% or 400%. However, American dairy farmers and cheese producers like Mateo Kehler, CEO of Jasper Hill Farm in northern Vermont, are now struggling and losing out due to the trade conflict. Kehler expressed confusion about who was benefiting from the ongoing tensions, stating that everyone he knows is suffering economically. Jasper Hill Farm produces premium cheeses sold at Michelin-starred restaurants and local cheese counters, but the trade war has negatively impacted their business despite Trump's claims of assistance.
Written for “Trump Cheated” on 2026-10-04,
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IN HIS OTHERWISE INEXPLICABLE trade war with Canada, U.S. dairy was supposed to be the one industry President Donald Trump was actually helping.
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Trump → suppose → Canada
He frequently namechecks the sector in his social media posts and interviews about Canada, citing it as evidence that our polite northern neighbors are really a bunch of dirty cheats.
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Sometimes, Trump complains that Canadian dairy tariffs on the United States are 250 percent; sometimes, according to Trump, they’re 400 percent.
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they → complain → Trump
And look, it’s true that dairy trade has been a source of friction between the two countries over the years.
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trade → look → years
Trump’s response to that friction, however, has been to tariff, bully, and ban his way to prosperity.
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response → tariff → prosperity
To which American dairy farmers are now saying: Please, stop helping.
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“I can’t figure out who’s winning here,” Mateo Kehler, CEO of Jasper Hill Farm, a cheese company in northern Vermont, told me.
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“Everybody I know is losing.”
Jasper Hill Farm makes mouth-watering, high-end, award-winning cheeses, the kinds served at Michelin-starred restaurants and stocked at your local cut-to-order cheesemonger counter.
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In fact its rich, bark-wrapped, “spoonably soft” Winnimere cheese just won the American Cheese Society’s Best of Show prize.
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Yet in the Trump era, the company’s export business has imploded.
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Jasper Hill Farm’s once-booming Canadian customer base evaporated almost overnight last year, due to a combination of tariffs, counter-tariffs, and pissed-off Canadian customers boycotting American goods.
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And you know what?
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Kehler says he doesn’t blame them.
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“Honestly, if I was a Canadian consumer, I would not be buying anything from the U.S. either,” he acknowledged.
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“This is a time for resistance, and I applaud Canadians for voting with their dollars.
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Let’s talk about how we got here.
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This is gonna get gouda.1
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