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Al Jazeera
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Erin Hale

What are Trump’s plans for tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico?

US President-elect Donald Trump attends a viewing of the launch of a SpaceX Starship rocket, in Brownsville, Texas on November 19, 2024 [Brandon Bell/Pool via Reuters]

United States President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose sweeping tariffs on the United States’s three largest trading partners – Canada, Mexico and China – as soon as he takes office on January 20.

While Trump used tariffs during his first term to punish countries such as China for what he said were unfair trade practices, he has cast the latest measures as a response to the flow of illegal drugs and undocumented migrants across the US border.

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