Trump Directs Removal of Canadian Goods From Federal Procurement Lists
The White House has instructed the General Services Administration to exclude Canadian products from federal supply lists, escalating ongoing trade tensions between the two nations. In response, Canadian officials are fast-tracking economic diversification strategies to reduce their dependence on U.S. markets.
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Accelerating diversification: Canada seeks economic sovereignty amid Trump's 'nonsensical' posturing
François Picard is pleased to welcome Jean Simard, President and CEO of the Aluminum Association of Canada. According to Simard, the US-Canada aluminum dispute is not your conventional disagreement over trade, but rather a 'Trump posture that makes no sense". As American industrial demand substantially exceeds domestic production capacity, tariffs will do nothing to reduce Canadian aluminum from the US market. Protectionism does not eliminate interdependence, explains Simard, it makes that in...
By François PICARD
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