# Retaliatory tariffs **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retaliatory-tariffs/1013322 **Category:** Politics & Elections **Tags:** trump **Created:** [January 24, 2025, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retaliatory-tariffs/1013322 "2025-01-24T04:48:41Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 752
### Author: ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper) #### Post date: [July 16, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retaliatory-tariffs/1013322/752 "2025-07-16T19:41:59Z")
The big fertilizer issue is potash from Canada. See previous thread: > [@What the hell is "Potash?"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-potash/1013436): > > Inspired by this quote from the “Retaliatory Tariffs” thread in Politics and Elections: I’d read about potash in my geography textbooks in fifth grade, but I never got a clear idea of what it IS. I guess about fifty years or so ago, I decided that it was a fancy jargonalicious name for potassium. Please, can someone save me a trip to Wikipedia? I don’t have much appetite for another round of “WIKIPEDIA IS NOT FOR SALE” pledge requests. Not today. TIA ETA: Do a good job with this, and next we… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retaliatory-tariffs/1013322)._