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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Canada hasn’t pulled the gas trigger in Trump’s trade war. What happens if it does?

President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with Canada has a nuclear option. Though it’s highly unlikely, Canadian officials could send the tariff battle into overdrive by raising the possibility of weaponized oil and gas levies.

But officials and economists on both sides of the border are warning that a clash of tariffs on oil and gas between the neighboring nations could be “devastating” and push their intertwined economies to the brink.

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