{"id":1236909,"date":"2025-03-04T13:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236909"},"modified":"2025-03-04T13:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:15:25","slug":"trumps-25-tariffs-take-effect-canadian-pm-calls-it-a-very-dumb-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236909","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s 25% tariffs take effect; Canadian PM calls it \u201ca very dumb thing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Trump&#8217;s 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico took effect today, and the White House increased a tariff on China from 10 to 20 percent in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/03\/further-amendment-to-duties-addressing-the-synthetic-opioid-supply-chain-in-the-peoples-republic-of-china\/\">executive order<\/a>. Canada, Mexico, and China announced retaliatory moves, and stock markets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/04\/business\/dealbook\/trump-tariffs-markets-business.html\">sank globally<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Industry groups and companies have <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/02\/tariffs-on-biggest-us-trading-partners-likely-to-spike-cost-of-cars-tech\/\">warned<\/a> the Trump tariffs will raise prices for <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2025\/02\/ford-boss-says-tariffs-will-create-cost-and-chaos\/\">cars<\/a>, groceries, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/02\/acer-ceo-says-its-pc-prices-to-increase-by-10-percent-in-response-to-trump-tariffs\/\">consumer technology<\/a>, and other products.<\/p>\n<p>Canada was hit with a 10 percent tariff on energy exports to the US, while other Canadian exports are subject to the 25 percent tariff. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/canadas-retaliatory-tariffs-us-goods-start-tuesday-pm-trudeau-says-2025-03-04\/\">said<\/a> his country would impose 25 percent tariffs on over $100 billion worth of US goods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/03\/trumps-25-tariffs-take-effect-canadian-pm-calls-it-a-very-dumb-thing\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/03\/trumps-25-tariffs-take-effect-canadian-pm-calls-it-a-very-dumb-thing\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump&#8217;s 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico took effect today, and the White House increased a tariff on China from 10 to 20 percent in an executive order. Canada, Mexico, and China announced retaliatory moves, and stock markets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236909\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}