President Trump has formally launched a major trade war, announcing that 25 per cent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico had come into effect on Tuesday and that the 10 per cent tariffs he has already imposed on Chinese goods were being doubled.
The tariffs on Canada and Mexico were originally announced shortly after Trump took office but delayed by a month to allow for negotiations. That deadline has now passed.
Leading members of Trump’s administration had indicated that the countries had not done enough to lessen the scale of the levies on their exports to the US.
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