Trump’s new Canada tariffs will hit your wallet on hundreds of goods

Hockey sticks, wine, honey, cut flowers and hundreds of other everyday products are about to cost more, as a U.S.-Canada trade war escalates into tariffs both sides say will raise prices at home.

The Trump administration imposed 50% tariffs Saturday on $20 billion worth of Canadian imports, days after trade negotiations collapsed in Washington. The list includes household items such as tableware, vinyl floors, plywood, furniture parts and musical instrument cases.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada will hit back with dollar-for-dollar tariffs beginning Sept. 8, targeting U.S. steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics.

Mr. Carney said U.S. negotiators blindsided Canada with last-minute demands, including changes to auto tariff reductions and limits on Canada’s ability to strike trade deals with other countries. “Unacceptable,” he said.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer countered that Canada had been offered “the best treatment of any major exporter” to the American market and rejected it anyway. “We’ve said enough, and so we’ve taken countermeasures,” Mr. Greer said.

President Trump defended the tariffs in a social media post early Sunday, writing that Canada “wants the benefits of being a State, without being one.”

The two countries exchanged roughly $880 billion in goods and services last year. No new trade talks are currently scheduled.

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