Trade War with Canada Could Hurt U.S. Firms, Consumers

SUGAR LAND--June 19, 2017--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--President Donald Trump's oft-expressed commitment to scrap or significantly renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the administration's recent trade conflicts with Canada over softwood lumber, steel and aluminum, aircraft sales and dairy products, have caused alarm in Canada because they could upend complex commercial relationships with America's second-largest trade partner, an Alberta official told an energy conference in Denver last week.

Within this article: Implications of trade disruptions between Canada and the United States.