HE HAS ACTUALLY gone and finished it. President Donald Trump had lengthy threatened to impose hefty tariffs on Canada and Mexico, America’s two largest buying and selling companions. Final month, after they had been first because of take impact, he supplied each international locations 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 prime of the ten% cost he applied final month, which itself added to tariffs imposed in his first time period.
