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milyon88 When the U.S. Hit Canada With Steep Tariffs Before, Canada Had a Plan B

Updated:2025-02-02 20:20 Views:199

After Donald J. Trump’s presidential inauguration on Mondaymilyon88, Canadians will learn whether he intends to follow through on his threat to immediately impose 25 percent tariffs on exports from Canada to the United States.

ImageAbout $300 million in trade moves between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit each day.Credit...Ian Willms for The New York Times

I’m on assignment in my hometown, Windsor, Ontario, which, as a border city and an automotive center, will be anxiously watching the political and economic fallout.

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Many people here have told me they are looking forward to the details of the federal government’s response to any American trade action. Matina Stevis-Gridneff, our Canada bureau chief, reports that it will be much like Canada’s response to the tariffs on aluminum and steel that Mr. Trump introduced during his first administration. Any coming retaliatory tariffs, she writes, will “focus on goods made in Republican or swing states, where the pain of tariffs, like pressure on jobs and the bottom lines of local businesses, would affect Trump allies.”

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But given the size of Canada’s economy, the country cannot inflict the same amount of harm that the United States can. That raises the question of whether retaliation, no matter how politically targeted, will be effective.

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