Canada’s best response to Trump’s latest tariff threats? Keep calm and carry on
Negotiators haggled over which tariffs to lower and which trade barriers to remove or reduce; that’s why they were in the room. So are Thursday’s sweeping new tariffs on all major U.S. trading partners, including Canada, on the absurd pretext of combating forced labour.Trump imposes new tariffs on dozens of countries, including CanadaBut Mr. Trump doesn’t share the post-Second World War assumptions about the mutual benefits of trade.
- ▪Negotiators haggled over which tariffs to lower and which trade barriers to remove or reduce; that’s why they were in the room.
- ▪So are Thursday’s sweeping new tariffs on all major U.S. trading partners, including Canada, on the absurd pretext of combating forced labour.Trump imposes new tariffs on dozens of countries, including CanadaBut Mr.
- ▪Trump doesn’t share the post-Second World War assumptions about the mutual benefits of trade.
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Open this photo in gallery:U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Prime Minister Mark Carney, right, at a working lunch with leaders of G7 and the Middle East in Evian-les-Bains, France, on June 16.Christian Hartmann/The Canadian PressShareSave for laterPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountInternational trade talks used to rest on an implicit assumption: that freer trade was the name of the game. Negotiators haggled over which tariffs to lower and which trade barriers to remove or reduce; that’s why they were in the room.
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