Canada has unveiled the list of U.S. products it plans to impose retaliatory tariffs on starting July 1, and it includes everything from American yogurt and meat to jam and wine.
The list announced by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland would be in addition to mirroring the tariffs on steel and aluminum. The new Canadian tariffs are in response to the Trump administration’s tariffs on those metals.
Minister Freeland said Canada is planning to levy new duties on everything from California wine to apples grown in Washington state, and is also looking at imported products such as Harley-Davidson motorcycles. In the press conference to discuss the tariffs Canada is planning to impose beginning on Canada Day, Prime Minister Trudeau called the U.S. trade actions “completely unacceptable.”
The planned Canadian tariffs also target important political leaders in the U.S. Harley motorcycles, for example, are manufactured in Wisconsin, the home state of outgoing House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, while bourbon is the specialty of Kentucky, where Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell is from.
The U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports of steel and aluminum have been set at 10% for aluminium and 25% for steel. Canada plans to match those rates when it imposes its own counter duties next month.
