Bush, seen here in 2006, revoked his steel tariffs less than two years after imposing them in 2002.
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President Trump slapped steep tariffs on steel imports, echoing protectionist measures taken by Bush in 2002.
A welder fabricates a steel structure at an iron works facility in Ottawa on March 5, 2018. U.S.President Donald Trump’s stated intention to impose new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports could start a trade war.
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Ottawa seems utterly unprepared for a trade war with the United States. The recent federal budget upholding equity values is noble, but won’t mean a thing if the government runs out of cash.
There’s a reason investors don’t like trade wars.
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President Trump says ‘trade wars are good,’ but history tells a very different story.
China controls 50% of the global steel industry but doesn’t export much to America.
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China supplies just 2% of America’s steel, while Canada and Europe have sizeable shares and Australian steel producers depend on access to US markets.
Economic history suggests Trump’s ‘America First’ trade policies will put the U.S. last.
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The president’s tariffs on steel and China mirror the misguided trade policies that helped precipitate the Great Depression.
Roaming free. The current Irish border.
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Options to avoid a hard border are on the table, but they remain unpalatable to Theresa May’s government.
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, right, and Mexico’s Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarrea, deliver statements to the media during the sixth round of negotiations for a new North American Free Trade Agreement in Montreal in January 2018.
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Donald Trump has described NAFTA as the worst trade deal ever signed by the United States. As NAFTA talks continue, here’s what Canada and Mexico can do if the unthinkable happens.
Now that panel costs in U.S. will go up, will reflectors make a comeback?
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Raising the cost of solar panels coming to the US could rekindle interest in a simple but potentially significant technology: solar reflectors.
US President Donald Trump in 2017 and George W. Bush in 2008.
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On March 1, Donald Trump imposed a series of steel and aluminum tariffs. To understand their potential impact, it’s instructive to look at what happened after George W. Bush enacted similar measures in 2002.
Sights like this Brooklyn rooftop covered with solar panels with a view of the Manhattan skyline have become more commonplace amid a U.S. renewable energy industry boom.
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Slapping duties on imported panels is unwise.
Canada’s NAFTA strategy is in big trouble. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is seen here meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in February 2017.
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Instead of treating the Trump administration as a campaign adversary, Canada needs to start working with the United States to renegotiate a NAFTA that serves both countries, not regimes like China.
Most of the growing number of jobs in the solar industry have more to do with maintaining and installing panels than manufacturing them.
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The Trump administration can boost domestic solar panel manufacturing without slapping duties on all imports.
‘Dig For Victory’, first time around on an allotment in London’s Kensington Gardens.
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Britain has fed itself before, can it do so again? It’s not easy to tell.
Indonesian workers hold placards during an anti-WTO rally at a main roundabout in Jakarta.
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A trade dispute between Australia and Indonesia shines a spotlight on Australia’s controversial ‘anti-dumping’ practices at the World Trade Organisation.
The U.S. is slapping tariffs on China-made aluminum, which could lead to a trade war.
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Some fear that recent actions against China taken by the Trump administration mean we’re on the verge of a trade war. What would be the cost?
The Canadian lobster industry is now valued at over $1 billion, double what it was in 2010.
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Lobster used to be a poor man’s meal. Now it’s the darling of foodies, and Canada’s lobster producers are poised to cash in on sales to the European Union thanks to CETA.
A worker at an auto parts plant in Orion Township, Michigan, lifts coiled steel into place.
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The president has promised to put a stop to foreign companies ‘dumping’ steel on US markets. Former President Bush tried the same thing, and here’s what happened.
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May’s government is evoking arguments made by the early 20th-century tariff reform campaign of Joseph Chamberlain.
South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, desperately needs a tariff hike.
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South Africa’s power utility Eskom wants regulatory reporting requirements waived. The country’s regulator faces possible court action if it agrees.
During the US presidential election campaign, Donald Trump blamed NAFTA for US job losses.
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There’s ample space to renegotiate some terms from the original agreement that would improve social welfare across the region.