Friday Focus: China’s reciprocal tariffs and Canada gets a Liberation Day exemption
Friday Focus: China’s reciprocal tariffs and Canada gets a Liberation Day exemption
Rudyard and Janice open the show with Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcements and specifically China’s response: a punishing 34% countervailing tax on all imports from the US. Is this the start of a more dangerous moment between these two adversaries? President Trump is about to find out how vulnerable the US is to China, and how easy it is to start an economic war but how hard it is to end it. In the second half of the show Rudyard and Janice turn their attention to Canada, which was conspicuously absent from Trump’s Wednesday tariff announcement. What can we expect when CUSMA – our free trade agreement with the US – gets renegotiated after the election?
You may also like
January 30, 2025
– Listen
Munk Debate Podcast: Elon Musk embraces the far-right and Trump ends DEI
February 12, 2025
– Listen
Munk Debate Podcast: Gaza, tariffs, and a constitutional showdown
February 28, 2025
– Listen
Munk Debates Podcast: Stephen Walt and Evelyn Farkas on Trump’s plan for Ukraine and the changing world order
March 7, 2025
– Listen
Munk Debates Podcast: Trump’s trade wars with Jared Bernstein and Oren Cass
March 18, 2025
– Listen
Munk Debates Podcast: Mahmoud Khalil, Democrats in disarray, and can tariffs actually benefit the working class?
April 3, 2025
– Listen
Munk Debates Podcast: Tension with Iran, Greenland annexation, and Chinese aggression against Taiwan
May 29, 2024
– Watch
Munk Debate on Trump’s America
April 16, 2025
– Listen
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: how the Liberals are benefiting from the Canada-US trade war
April 22, 2025
