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Canada will fight Trump’s copper tariff, Joly vows
Canada will fight back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s 50 per cent tariff on copper imports, Industry Minister Melanie Joly said Thursday. “We’ll fight against it. Period,” said the minister, without getting into specifics. Trump vowed on Truth Social Wednesday evening the tariff would come into force on Aug. 1. Trump heralded the metal as the “most used material by the Department of Defense!” in his social media post, promising to bolster an American copper industry that will dominate the world. “THIS IS, AFTER ALL, OUR GOLDEN AGE!” he wrote. According to Natural Resources Canada, the U.S. was ... (full story)