In response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is imposing tariffs on 235 U.S. products.
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Canada’s list of tariffs has been designed to damage American businesses in politically important and Republican-leaning parts of the country, theoretically creating pressure on Trump to drop his own tariffs.
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It is far from clear that anyone will budge.
Trump has so far been willing to ignore the pleas of foreign leaders, business titans and congressional Republicans on trade. And even anti-tariff elected Republicans have largely been deferential, wary of opposing a president popular with party voters.
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Canada’s retaliation list includes whiskey, a famous export of Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Kentucky, and frozen pizza, produced by several companies in House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Wisconsin.
And it includes toilet paper. Mehoopany, Pa., a tiny community represented by Republican congressman and Senate candidate Lou Barletta, is home to a massive Procter & Gamble plant that makes Charmin toilet paper.
Pennsylvania, a state key to Trump’s victory, is also targeted by the tariffs on chocolate and licorice, both made by the Hershey Co.
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Trudeau’s tariffs will not only be hitting corporate giants. The tariffs on “prepared meals, of bovine” — convenience items like ready-to-eat beef sandwiches — will hit small companies specializing in these items, said Joe Schuele, spokesperson for the U.S. Meat Export Federation.
Schuele said $164 million of last year’s $800 million in U.S. beef exports to Canada will be affected by the tariffs. “There may be a tendency to look at it from an industry-wide impact, which may seem modest, but its impact on a certain segment of the U.S. beef industry will be quite significant,” he said.
The Star
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