“We will not hesitate to act,” Trudeau said at a meeting of the newly formed Council on Canada-U.S. Relations in Toronto. “We will respond and, I will say it again, everything is on the table.”
“We will not hesitate to act,” Trudeau said at a meeting of the newly formed Council on Canada-U.S. Relations in Toronto. “We will respond and, I will say it again, everything is on the table.”
What Canada and the EU will do is the same that the EU did when there were trade conflicts before. Instead of imposing general tariffs, they’ll put tariffs in some key US exports that impact mostly swing states and red states but are not critical imports.
For example, when there was a conflict with Bush, the EU put tariffs on Harley Davidsons (to target Wisconsin), Whisky (to target Kentucky and Mitch McConnell), and Levi’s Jeans. The idea wasn’t to make Americans pay (duh), but make them too expensive in comparison with the alternatives and crash American exports.
I think those tariffs must still be going here because it is like 120€ for one pair of Levi’s where in the US, it is 60€ or less per pair with much more variety. When my girlfriend and I visited, she bought like 4.