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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Erin Hale

Cars to fruit: The goods set to get pricier under Trump’s tariff plans

Vegetables displayed for sale at a grocery store in River Ridge, Louisiana on July 11, 2018 [Gerald Herbert/AP]

United States President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to impose tariffs of 25 percent on Canadian and Mexican imports, and an “additional” 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods as soon as he takes office in January.

Trump, who announced the plans on Monday on his social media platform Truth Social, said the measures were in response to Canada and Mexico’s failure to keep undocumented workers and drugs from flowing across the US border.

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