Canada's tariffs against US take effect

United Kingdom Secretary Boris Johnson, shakes hands with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland (R) at the Vancouver Foreign Ministers Meeting on Security and Stability on the Korean Peninsula, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on January 16, 2018. [BBC]

Tit for tat. Canada’s counter-measures against the Trump administration’s steel and aluminium levies have come into effect.

Yesterday, Canada imposed a 25 per cent tariff on assorted US metal products.