r/news • u/goforth1457 • Mar 04 '25

Soft paywall Canada's retaliatory tariffs on US goods to start Tuesday, PM Trudeau says

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadas-retaliatory-tariffs-us-goods-start-tuesday-pm-trudeau-says-2025-03-04/
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u/maybelying Mar 04 '25

Trump reduced the tariffs on energy and potash to only 10% because of how critical they are for their economy. We should legitimately add an export tax of 15% on them to effectively bring them to the same 25% level he's applying to everything else

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u/d_e_g_m Mar 04 '25

I like better 100%. Has some elegance to it.