Trudeau Details Canada’s Retaliation Plans in Emotional Rebuke of Trump Tariffs – The New York Times– news.google.com
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada laid out more than $100 billion in retaliatory tariffs against the United States late Saturday, in a forceful response to President Trump’s decision to impose levies on a range of Canadian goods.
But he made clear that Canada was doing so reluctantly.
“We don’t want to be here,” Mr. Trudeau said in a somber televised address from Ottawa that evoked the deep bonds between the two neighbors and close trading partners. “We didn’t ask for this.”
Mr. Trudeau spoke hours after President Trump hit Canada and Mexico with tariffs of 25 percent on all goods, with a partial carve out for Canadian energy and oil exports. Mr. Trudeau said that Canada would swiftly impose its own “far-reaching” retaliatory tariffs of 25 percent on 155 billion Canadian dollars ($106 billion) worth of U.S. goods.
Canada on Sunday published a detailed list of all the U.S. goods imported into Canada that will be subjected to the tariff, including hundreds of products including honey, tomatoes, whiskey and peanut butter. Also on the list were garments, porcelain goods such as toilets and bath tubs, as well as refrigerators and dish washers.
