


President Trump is not happy with Canada over the amount of fentanyl coming over the border, and so he just increased the tariff on Canada substantially on some products.
He changed it from 25% to 30% on certain products.
Here’s the news:
President Trump announced Thursday that the U.S. would raise tariffs on certain Canadian goods from 25 percent to 35 percent beginning Friday.
Goods that are covered under the 2020 United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement will be exempt from the tariff rate, the White House said.
The White House announced the increase hours before higher tariff rates on several countries were set to go into effect. Canada is among the United States’s top trading partners.
“Canada has failed to cooperate in curbing the ongoing flood of fentanyl and other illicit drugs, and it has retaliated against the United States for the president’s actions to address this unusual and extraordinary threat to the United States,” the White House said in a fact sheet.
Trump earlier this year imposed a 25 percent tariff on Mexico and Canada, citing frustrations that the countries had not done enough to curb the flow of fentanyl into the United States. Experts have noted relatively little fentanyl crosses into the U.S. via the northern border compared with the southern border.
The president earlier this month threatened to raise tariffs on Canada to 35 percent, again citing the fentanyl issue.