Canada Strikes Back at President Trump With Major New Tariffs on US Goods– townhall.com
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Canada has escalated its trade dispute with the United States, announcing retaliatory tariffs after President Trump imposed 50 percent duties on roughly $20 billion in Canadian imports on Saturday.
“Today I’m announcing that Canada will match the United States tariffs dollar for dollar, rate for rate,” Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said. “Effective September 8, Canada will impose counter tariffs of up to 15, 25 or 50 percent on 27.6 billion in imports from the United States of America. For each product, our tariff would match the American tariff on the same type of Canadian good.”
Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne: “Today I’m announcing that Canada will match the United States tariffs dollar for dollar, rate for rate. Effective September 8th, Canada will impose counter-tariffs of up to 15%, 25%, or 50% on $27.6B of imports from the… pic.twitter.com/ud4PDQQOSJ
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