Trump Bans Canadian Alcohol, Motorcycle Imports

Is this economic warfare or the only credible answer to Canada's discrimination against U.S. goods?

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Trump Bans Canadian Alcohol, Motorcycle Imports

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Above: Donald Trump in the Rose Garden at the White House on Sept. 2. Image credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

The Spin

Anti-Trump narrative

This is economic warfare. The Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement flatly bars total import bans, and no national security fig leaf covers whiskey and cheese, so this shreds a treaty the U.S. signed and leaves shortages and higher prices on American shelves. Blockades exist to force capitulation, and Canada's sovereignty is the real target here.

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Pro-Trump narrative

Canadian provinces yanked American liquor off their shelves while leaving every other country's bottles alone, and that is textbook discrimination against U.S. commerce. Washington offered a suspension, Canada reneged and Saskatchewan piled on a 50% levy, so an import ban is the only credible answer.

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