‘We Don’t Need Canada’: Trump Escalates Trade War With Threat of 50% Auto Tariffs

Time Magazine·August 24, 2026 at 4:37 PM+24

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President Donald Trump threatened to raise automobile tariffs on Canada to 50% as the trade rift and political slanging match between the neighboring nations escalated.

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