Which Trump-Supporting States Will Feel Canada’s Tariff Fury? | The Walrus

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Canada's retaliatory tariffs, covering more than 600 product categories worth $27.6 billion and matching U.S. tariffs dollar for dollar, take effect September 8, hitting goods from butterfly nets to farm equipment. Industry Minister Mélanie Joly declined to say which states the tariffs are designed to hurt, though Ontario Premier Doug Ford was more direct, naming eight states including Iowa in an August letter urging they feel 'the full force' of Canada's response if talks collapse.

Maine, Michigan, and Iowa each have deep trade ties to Canada and Republican senators facing competitive midterm races. Maine's Susan Collins has broken with Trump to oppose the tariffs over lobster, blueberry, and lumber exports, while Michigan, where Canada supplies 66 percent of imports, faces tariffs hitting its auto industry, and Iowa's farm equipment sector, including the world's largest John Deere complex, is exposed despite corn and soybeans being spared.

Democrats have seized on the tariffs as a midterm talking point, with Newsweek and the Associated Press both noting the political vulnerability the trade war creates in Republican-held battleground states.

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An Industry Minister who won't say the quiet part out loud gets upstaged by a provincial premier who says it in a letter with his name on it. There's something almost polite about a trade war that hits butterfly nets and lobster before it gets around to anything essential, like the tariffs were designed by someone hoping the senators notice before the voters do. Either way, a farmer in Iowa is going to pay more for equipment over a fight he didn't start and can't vote to end from north of the border.

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