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Trevor Snyder

@snyder616.bsky.social
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Dad, Torontonian, and Ontario public servant (previously international relations, now trade policy). Also a Bayern and Leafs fan. 🇨🇦

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 27/08/2026
Recommend reading this @NYTimes.com op-ed from @ChadpBown.com about who really wins from the Trump administration crushing Canada's car industry. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/o...
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
As insane as this is, it's also instructive: 1. Placate a bully, and you'll encourage him to hit you again 2. Trump's trade deals are worthless 3. US "emergency"/natsec tariffs are a joke & clear example of why unbounded exec power is bad (cc: SCOTUS) 4. Hey Congress: DO YOUR 🤬 JOB
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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 13/01/2026
An updated CRS report on "Presidential 2025 Tariff Actions: Timeline and Status" is now available. Incudes sections on: - U.S. Tariff Actions Since January 20, 2025 - Bilateral Framework Agreements - Foreign Retaliation to U.S. Tariff Actions
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Derek DeCloet @decloet.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Monthly fentanyl data from US border agency. Black line is Mexico. Yellow line is Canada.
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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Happy Canada Day from my home the next couple of years — Ankara, Turkey! Here I bid farewell to the U.S. With some reflections on the country as I experienced it in 12 years as a foreign correspondent. (And reflections on life covering you-know-who) www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
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ANALYSIS | Stepping off the Trump treadmill: A CBC correspondent bids farewell to Washington | CBC News
Alexander Panetta, CBC's outgoing correspondent in Washington, D.C., writes that he stopped seeing the U.S. as a two-dimensional entity on a screen as it became the surroundings of his life.
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
"How Tariffs Will Impact U.S. Car Prices, by Brand" 😥 www.visualcapitalist.com/how-tariffs-...
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 15/06/2025
The UK will seek to restart trade negotiations with Canada, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on his way to meet his counterpart, Mark Carney as he strives to insulate Britain’s economy from the fallout of US President Donald Trump’s tariff war
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Starmer Indicates Prospect of Fresh UK-Canada Trade Talks
The UK will seek to restart trade negotiations with Canada, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on his way to meet his counterpart, Mark Carney as he strives to strengthen commercial ties around the world to better insulate Britain’s economy from the fallout of US President Donald Trump’s tariff war.
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"Trump’s Tariffs Aimed at Reviving Manufacturing Are Doing the Opposite" 😲 www.bloomberg.com/news/article... "Overall, it is going to be a drag on the US economy... In particular, it’s going to be a drag on the Midwestern economy.” 😲😲
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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
US Court of International Trade just issued decision in case against Trump tariffs filed by Liberty Justice Center and me. All "Liberation Day"/IEEPA tariffs ruled illegal, and blocked by injunction! See link for opinion. I will have much more to say soon: www.cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/fi...
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Christopher Sands @uscanada-sands.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
While hunting for a new Washington think tank home, I decided to start a Substack column on #USCanada relations from an American POV. Comments welcome, and subscribe if you are interested. christophersands1.substack.com/p/observatio...
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Observations on US-Canada Relations from Washington
The reasons behind this Substack column
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Trevor Snyder @snyder616.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I guess I'm cheering for Edmonton. All good.
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Mickey Djuric @mickeydjuric.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The US Ambassador to Canada Talks 51st States, Trade Wars and Working for Trump www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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The US Ambassador to Canada Talks 51st States, Trade Wars and Working for Trump
Pete Hoekstra opens up about the signals he hopes to see from new Prime Minister Mark Carney.
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
WH has now confirmed: this is insane nypost.com/2025/04/02/u...
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Kimberly Clausing @kclausing.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Bananas.
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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 27/03/2025
People are overthinking this. Trump believes tariffs will make the US rich by protecting domestic industry from competition, raising revenue, and providing negotiating leverage. He's wrong about them making the US rich, but that's what he believes. It's not more complicated than that.
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Sam Lowe @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
In preparation for tomorrow’s newsletter, I’ve created a top quality infographic to explain why the effective rate on cars exported to the US from Canada and Mexico (assuming they qualify for USMCA) may be lower than 25%
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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
/ Trump warning against retaliation underscores key point: trade retaliation will disproportionately hit his supporters In part because they disproportionately come from target-rich farm states And because his supporters are the rare Americans who favor tariffs on Canada. Making them a ripe target
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 26/03/2025
Tariffs could help the steel industry, but not if they lose customers in the auto industry. Major US steel manufacturer laying off 600 in Dearborn, citing weak auto demand. www.freep.com/story/money/...
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Major US steel manufacturer laying off 600 in Dearborn, citing weak auto demand
Cleveland-Cliffs’ Michigan shutdowns occur after those in Minnesota, where another nearly 600 steelworkers will be laid off starting May 2025.
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 26/03/2025
A week away from "Liberation Day" and the generals still don't have a tariff battle plan. @aimewilliams.bsky.social reports USTR's Jamieson Greer wants to base them on a longer study of specific country actions (eg Section 301), while others push for unusual/quick fees. www.ft.com/content/114c...
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Donald Trump considers two-step tariff regime on April 2
Possible phased approach to new US levies reflects debate over trade strategy within administration
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Trevor Snyder @snyder616.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Brutal.
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Chad P. Bown @chadpbown.com · 20/03/2025
Whether it is the Canadian electricity that keeps the lights on in New York, or the Canadian potash that fertilizes fields in the midwest, or the Canadian uranium that powers the nuclear industry, America needs what Canada sells. by @chrystia-freeland.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/36af...
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America needs what Canada sells
The US president has to understand that economic warfare will hit his own people in their pocketbooks
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Shawn Donnan @sdonnan.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
What makes up the US trade deficit in goods? A lot of things that American consumers like! Great run through the data from our @bloomberg.com data viz team: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Trump’s Tariffs Are Aimed at a Trade Deficit Driven by Popular Goods
Trump wants to reduce the $1.2 trillion trade deficit, so he’s putting tariffs on popular imported goods from smartphones to household appliances.
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Steven Chase @stevenchase.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Canada must weigh risk Trump blocks software upgrades for F-35s: former official www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Canada must weigh risk Trump blocks software upgrades for F-35s: former official
A former senior federal procurement official warns that Lockheed Martin’s control of the warplane’s source code makes Ottawa vulnerable to the U.S. President
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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
/ -Auto sector cont’d: Trump’s threatened tariffs would paralyze North American vehicle production for the foreseeable future.
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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
For those keeping score on tariffs: -Canadian steel production in danger of immediate shutdowns -Aluminum? The U.S. needs it. No obvious alternative at present. Now risks a 50% tariff tomorrow -Auto sector? Needs both those things. TBD how production lines operate much longer /
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Derek DeCloet @decloet.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A brief thread about what's going on in Canada. All are welcome, but this one is especially for Americans. There was some stunning polling this week. Survey of 1,550 Canadians: How do you perceive the USA? Ally: 31% Enemy: 30% Neutral: 24% Don't know/refuse: 14% (source: Leger Marketing)
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Got mad, did another thing www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump's Threat To Take Over Canada Is a Scandal
Trump keeps threatening to annex Canada. Americans would never accept such talk from another country.
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Trevor Snyder @snyder616.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Mood less than a week into the Canada-U.S. trade war:
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 06/03/2025
New: Donald Trump will likely defer tariffs on Canada and Mexico for all USMCA-compliant goods, Howard Lutnick said
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Trump Likely to Defer Tariffs on Goods, Services Under USMCA
President Donald Trump is likely to defer tariffs on Canada and Mexico for all goods and services covered by the North American trade agreement known as USMCA, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said.
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Brian Platt @brianplatt.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump is considering exempting certain agricultural products from tariffs imposed on Canada and Mexico, the latest move by the administration on Wednesday to offer relief to certain sectors from the sweeping new import taxes.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/03/2025
President Trump says Canada and Mexico are allowing fentanyl to come into the U.S. at “levels never seen before.” However, U.S. Customs data shows almost none of the fentanyl intercepted at American borders comes from Canada.
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Virtually no fentanyl in the U.S. comes from Canada
Trump says Canada and Mexico are allowing fentanyl to come into the United States at “levels never seen before.” However, almost none of the fentanyl
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Daniel McDowell @danielmcdowell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
North America's FTAs (first NAFTA, then USMCA) are a boon to auto production in the US, specifically, and region, generally. Free trade has also been a boon to American consumers. This VOX explainer segment from several years back highlights the cost-to-consumers angle. Part 1/3
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 04/03/2025
In a chaotic Trump trade policy, the new across-the-board tariffs on Canada stand out, for a few reasons. Thread.🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/b...
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Trump’s Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China Snap Into Effect
President Trump imposed hefty tariffs on the United States’ largest trading partners on Tuesday, roiling global relations and sending shock waves through industries that depend on trade.
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 04/03/2025
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he is ready to fight. “If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything, including cut off their energy with a smile on my face. I’m encouraging every other province to do the same.” www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Canada ready to hit back at Trump’s tariffs
Ontario premier warns Trump: “I will do everything, including cut off their energy.”
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Brian Platt @brianplatt.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Trudeau: "should U.S. tariffs not cease, we are in active and ongoing discussions with provinces and territories to pursue several non-tariff measures." 👀
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Brian Platt @brianplatt.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Trudeau announces Canada's counter-tariffs will come into effect the same time as Trump's tariffs: 12:01 am Tuesday. It's the same retaliation package Canada announced a month ago, with an initial $30 billion of US goods hit, followed 3 weeks later by tariffs on another $125 billion of goods.
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Inu Manak @inumanak.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
This is still true. Congress needs to wake up. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/07/t...
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Trump’s Tariffs Are an Unconstitutional Power Grab
Declaring a national emergency to exact concessions is a ploy to seize authority.
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Derek DeCloet @decloet.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Last chance? If it’s a product of the USA, Canadian consumers are increasingly saying, “no chance.” Story by our @geoffmorgan.bsky.social (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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‘Buy Canada, Bye America’: Trump’s Taunts Spur Fury in the North
Grocery stores are promoting homegrown produce to consumers as 85% of Canadians hunt for alternatives to US goods.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/03/2025
From raw metal to engines, components travel all over North America before they’re put into cars. What happens if they’re taxed at every stop?
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See how tariffs could make your next car cost thousands more
From raw metal to engines, components travel all over North America before they’re put into cars. What happens if they’re taxed at every stop?
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
New from me: "Eleven Charts Showing How Canada/Mexico Tariffs Would Harm the US Energy Industry (and US Energy Consumers)"
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Eleven Charts Showing How Canada/Mexico Tariffs Would Harm the US Energy Industry (and US Energy Consumers)
These US tariffs (and the subsequent retaliation by the Mexican and Canadian governments) would cause significant damage to the three countries’ economies, and some industries would suffer…
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Paul Vieira @paulvieira.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The US-based Aluminum Association supports the 25% duty on the imported metal, but urges Trump to exempt primary aluminum from Canada because it would take at least a decade to build new smelters and expand the power supply in the U.S. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
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Tariffs Fracture Aluminum Industry: ‘It’s Going to Cost Me a Lot of Money’
Trump’s plan to expand aluminum tariffs spells higher costs for can and component makers, but aluminum producers say imports have held down prices.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 26/02/2025
Full text of the Ukraine-US Minerals Deal. 1. Seems fine (an investment and reconstruction fund); 2. Has no resemblance to what the Trump administration has been saying about it; 3. Can't tell if Ukraine is good at diplomacy, or Trump bad at it. www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/articles...
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The full text of the “Minerals Deal”, agreed by Ukraine and the United States
European Pravda publishes the final text of the “Minerals Deal,” an intergovernmental arrangement that Ukraine and the United States are set to sign this week...
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Chad P. Bown @chadpbown.com · 25/02/2025
NEW!!! You asked, we listened: Trump's Trade War Timeline 2.0: An Up-to-Date Guide Bookmark it! www.piie.com/blogs/realti...
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Trump's trade war timeline 2.0: An up-to-date guide
President Donald Trump has started his second term in office with momentous plans to change US trade policy to achieve various economic and nontrade related aims. Below is a timeline that tracks the development of the most notable trade actions by the United States and other countries with links to the latest available data and PIIE analysis. (For actions during Trump's first term, visit this page.)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/02/2025
Minnesota is now South Manitoba. I don't make the rules.
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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
My evening: We’re toast we’re toast we’re toast we’re toast we’re toast we’re toast we’re toast we’re toast I knew we had it in the bag. 🍾 🇨🇦 🥅
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Chad P. Bown @chadpbown.com · 13/02/2025
President Trump's ‘reciprocal’ tariffs make no sense. How is it in America’s national interest to let other countries decide what duties we pay? by Doug Irwin www.wsj.com/opinion/reci...
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Opinion | ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs Make No Sense
How is it in America’s national interest to let other countries decide what duties we pay?
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Eamon Javers @eamonjavers.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I’m told the tariffs Trump announces today will NOT go into effect today. There will be a time delay of some months, possibly an April 1 start date. This will be a presidential memorandum today not an executive order, and USTR will be tasked with developing next steps.
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 12/02/2025
The high US premiums reflect a “distorted” market, said Tom Price, an analyst at Panmure Liberum, reflecting fears about a “starvation of supply”... “The US can’t switch to any other source in the short term,” he said, noting this was particularly the case for aluminium. www.ft.com/content/9d48...
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US metals prices soar to big premiums ahead of Donald Trump’s tariffs
Traders pay up to secure copper, steel and aluminium supplies before US president’s levies come into effect
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 11/02/2025
Ford CEO Jim Farley will travel to Washington on Wednesday to warn members of Congress that the 25% tariffs President Donald Trump has proposed on Canada and Mexico would “blow a hole” in the US auto industry
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Ford’s CEO to Warn Lawmakers of ‘Devastating’ Tariff Impact
Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Office Jim Farley will travel to Washington on Wednesday to warn members of Congress that the 25% tariffs President Donald Trump has proposed on Canada and Mexico would ...
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