- Canada has responded to U.S. tariffs with sweeping duties on products including cheese and steel.
- The Midwest and Great Lakes are among the most exposed regions, led by Ohio ($2.3 billion) and Illinois ($2.1 billion).
- Several of the most affected states, including Michigan and Wisconsin, are politically important swing states.
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What? Why are they in absolute dollars and not a percent of each state’s economy or population?
Yet another population heatmap claiming to be something else?
The Sep 8 Canadian counter-tarrifs tariffs are a “dollar-for-dollar” response to the USA’s Aug 22 tariffs. They aren’t very big in terms of percentage of trade. The latest escalation is around $20 billion USD out of $246 billion USD imported last year from the USA in goods:
https://usafacts.org/articles/us-canada-trade-history-in-six-charts/
Still the impacts will be felt on targeted products such as carpet from Georgia.