Canadians Alarmed by Tariff Talk

Posted 10/8/24

A new report from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s Business Data Lab (BDL) highlights just how mutually beneficial the Canada-U.S. trade relationship is and offers a stark warning about the serious economic consequences of enacting protectionist policies. 

“There’s an opportunity to learn from long-forgotten history, here," the authors write. "It turns out that the 10% tariff recently proposed by Trump has some echoes of a tariff that was enacted by President Nixon back in 1971. That policy—which was much narrower than Trump’s recent proposal—was a disaster and was quickly reversed.”  

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