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At odds with Trump over trade, Canadians say they will avoid U.S. goods: poll

At odds with Trump over trade, Canadians say they will avoid U.S. goods: poll

Seventy percent of Canadians say they will start looking for ways to avoid buying U.S.-made goods in a threat to ratchet up a trade dispute between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump, an Ipsos Poll showed on Friday. The poll also found a majority of Americans and Canadians are united in support of Trudeau and opposition to Trump in their countries' stand-off over the renegotiation of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).


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Trump’s tariffs: What they are and how China is responding

Trump's tariffs: What they are and how China is responding

The punch-and-counterpunch announced Friday in Washington and Beijing moved the world's two largest economies perilously near a trade war that would inflate prices for consumers, disrupt the flow of goods and perhaps slow a global economy that has been enjoying its healthiest expansion in a decade. "Everybody loses in a trade war," says Philip Levy, senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and a former White House economic adviser. What's more, the China tariffs come just as the United States is sparring with close allies like the European Union, Canada and Mexico in a separate conflict over trade in steel and aluminum.


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