A syllable week in Canadian policy and trade, with more movements on the road

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What is the next: Mr. Ford, along with Dominic LeBlanc, New International Trade Minister and François-Philippe Champagne, New Finance Minister Champagne, Washington colleagues, US Trade Secretary and US Trade Representative Greer. The message received, Matina reports, “Canada or President Trump’s crosswalks had no way in the crosswalks, prevented a new era of new tariffs in April.”

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These tariffs will be “mutual” – that is, the United States will apply the same tariffs against Canada from Canada.

USMCA (or JUSMA is stated in Canada), the free trade agreement signed within the first Trump Administration has little tariffs than the American imports, which are part of some farm products, especially milk. Thus, theoretical tariffs may have relatively low impact.

But there is a wild card. Mr. Trump sees additional value taxes such as tariffs, as product and service taxes are not applied to exports – an unexplained view by most trade economists. Mr. Trump is known how to go after GST and how it can affect trade between Canada and the United States.

A larger trade problem can explode on April 2, a larger trade problem with Mr. Trump’s Canadian exports and energy tariffs and energy and potential of energy and potential. (These charges are already applied in some Canadian exports, which are not approved in accordance with North American content rules of North America.)