Ottawa has threatened a tit-for-tat response to US protectionism after President Donald Trump slapped a 10 percent levy on Canadian aluminum imports, saying countermeasures would come “swiftly.”
Trump announced the trade penalties during a speech in Ohio on Thursday, insisting Canadian producers had flooded the United States with exports and killed “all our aluminum jobs,” adding that, in order to defend US industry it was “absolutely necessary” to reimpose tariffs previously lifted last year.
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