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Breaking News: Trump reimposes aluminum tariffs on Canada

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has reimposed a 10% tariff on Canadian aluminum imports.

Speaking at a Whirlpool factory in Ohio, Trump said he moved to reinstate the tariffs in response to the Canadian government’s failure to prevent the aluminum industry from “flooding” the U.S. market.

“Canada was taking advantage of us as usual,” Trump said.

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Nate Tabak

Nate Tabak is a Toronto-based journalist and producer who covers cybersecurity and cross-border trucking and logistics for FreightWaves. He spent seven years reporting stories in the Balkans and Eastern Europe as a reporter, producer and editor based in Kosovo. He previously worked at newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the San Jose Mercury News. He graduated from UC Berkeley, where he studied the history of American policing. Contact Nate at [email protected].