U.S. tariffs could price Canadian firms out of U.S. and threaten thousands of jobs

New York Times: “Fifty percent is a huge number for the individual products that are affected,” said Joseph Steinberg, a professor of macroeconomics at the University of Toronto.

“For those products, we should see a very large reduction in exports,” he added. “In some cases, exports will stop altogether, and the firms that produce those products will be severely impacted. Some will undoubtedly shut down.”

Up to 90,000 jobs in Canada could be lost, according to calculations by Trevor Tombe, a trade economist at the University of Calgary in Alberta. Those include jobs at companies not directly affected by tariffs. For example, demand for truck drivers will dry up once Canadian firms are shut out of the U.S. market…

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