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Everything You Need To Know About Trump’s Tariffs And The Brewing North American Trade War

Talks began on Monday with Trump speaking with Trudeau and Mexico now agreeing to send up to 10,000 troops to the border.

Tim Pearce
Everything You Need To Know About Trump’s Tariffs And The Brewing North American Trade War
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Trade networks in North America are under stress after Canada and Mexico promised to raise import duties on goods from the United States in response to tariffs from the same.

Though President Donald Trump promotes tariffs as an antidote to trade deficits and shrinking domestic industry, the budding trade war in North America has little to do with trade. Washington has accused its international neighbors of not doing enough to combat drug cartels and human traffickers, and that failure has had harmful spillover effects on the United States.

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