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Canada will announce C$29.8 bln in retaliatory tariffs on the United States on Wednesday in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, a Canadian official said.

The official declined to be named.

Trump’s increased tariffs on steel and aluminum imports took effect on Wednesday as prior exemptions, duty free quotas and product exclusions expired, and as his campaign to reorder global trade norms in favor of the U.S. gains momentum.

  • pivot_root@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    A different article suggests it might include electronics:

    These measures come on top of the initial $30 billion worth of U.S. imports that Canada slapped tariffs on earlier this month, in response to Trump’s U.S. International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs put in place March 4.

    According to the federal government, the list of additional products affected by counter-tariffs includes tools, computers and servers, display monitors, water heaters, sport equipment, and cast-iron products.

    If “computers” refers to components and not just prebuilt machines, this one is going to especially suck for Canadians. The processors used in consumer desktop computers are all designed by American corporations, and so are the graphics cards. It remains to be seen if they’ll only apply on things assembled in America, but if not, it’s going to be painful for yall.