HE HAS ACTUALLY gone and performed it. President Donald Trump had lengthy threatened to impose hefty tariffs on Canada and Mexico, America’s two greatest buying and selling companions. Final month, once they have been first attributable to take impact, he supplied each nations a last-minute reprieve. This time, he was in no temper to play good. New tariffs got here into impact at 12:01am EST on March 4th, when America hit imports from its two neighbours with levies of 25%. For good measure, Mr Trump added one other 10% tariff on Chinese language items, on high of the ten% cost he applied final month, which itself added to tariffs imposed in his first time period.
