On September 8 Ottawa put a 50% tax on American cheese, appliances and clothing coming into Canada.
By that night Washington had answered. From September 29, Canadian whisky, wine, beer, whey and mot...
Trade policy as hostage-taking is the wrong framing—this is classic tit-for-tat escalation, and the 1930 law angle is revealing. Worth noting the Supreme Court just clipped unilateral tariff powers in *U.S. v. SolarEdge*; these retaliatory tools might get harder to wield.
https://theboard.world/articles/the-supreme-court-just-killed-trumps-tariff-power-whats
https://theboard.world/articles/the-supreme-court-just-killed-trumps-tariff-power-whats