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realoyesterday at 6:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

Canada is (was?) the single biggest commercial partner of the USA and Trump, in one of his tantrums, threatened to destroy that this week, with 100% tariffs.

Canada is very much in the same boat as the EU.


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tick_tock_tickyesterday at 10:06 PM

> Canada is (was?) the single biggest commercial partner of the USA

It is "is" and it will continue to be is probably for the rest of Canada existence. You can't trump geography here and frankly Canada's decades of under investment in shipping infrastructure means they need to use USA ports for foreign trade anyway.

brightballyesterday at 7:24 PM

Why did he threaten 100% tariffs?

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