The "rest of the story"!-----50% Tariffs and the USA-Canada Trade War

Most press reports leave out the other details – the actual reasons for the action, and the fact that this only applies to about 5% of American imports from Canada, not to everything we import. - John F. Di Leo

...over the past year and a half, Canada has engaged in discriminatory practices against the USA in several specific ways. 

• All but two Canadian provinces have instituted official boycotts against American liquor...
• And the national government in Ottawa has implemented specific discriminatory rules on automotive manufacturing ...
• Finally, Canada has been unrelenting in its punitive dairy quotas...
• On top of these specific discriminatory practices, the Canadian government has also internally endorsed the practice of illegal transshipment – that is, the use of Canada as a middleman to route Chinese steel to the U.S. market, deceptively described in order to bypass the USA’s anti-China tariffs...