Ottawa residents say new U.S. tariff threat reinforces ‘buy Canadian’ message

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer announced on Thursday that President Donald Trump is taking more tariff action against Canada, as well as 59 other economies. This comes just three days after the USTR invoked the never-before-used Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to introduce anti-discrimination tariffs against roughly 5 per cent of Canadian goods imported into the U.S. — at a whopping 50 per cent. Greer said the White House is imposing the new tariffs under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 against 60 economies following a forced labour investigation, which launched...