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Trump hits Canada with import ban on alcohol and other goods

Trump targets booze, motor vehicles, and cheese, while Canada aims tariffs at nearly $20bn of US products, from steel to T-shirts.

BBC Business

Prime Minister Mark Carney has said that Canada's pivot away from the US as its largest trading partner "will come at a cost", as a wave of Canadian retaliatory tariffs on American goods come into force.

In a video address, Carney added that the counter-tariffs against the US "are necessary to protect our workers".

Canada's levies will apply to nearly C$28bn ($20bn; £15bn) of American products, from steel to furniture to cotton T-shirts, and will be as high as 50%.

In late August, Trump imposed new 50% tariffs on other goods like dairy, alcohol, hockey sticks and perfume.