Poll finds American and Canadian majorities reject Trump’s Canada trade war

  • American and Canadian majorities rejected President Donald Trump’s higher tariffs on Canadian goods.
  • 83 percent of Canadians and 56 percent of Americans called the tariffs wrong.
  • Prime Minister Mark Carney’s retaliatory tariffs won approval from more than 70 percent of Canadians.

Majorities in the United States and Canada said President Donald Trump was wrong to raise tariffs on Canadian goods, according to a Politico/Public First poll. The survey found that 56% of Americans and 83% of Canadians opposed the increased import taxes, while 26% of U.S. respondents and 8% of Canadians supported them. More than 70% of Canadians approved of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s retaliatory tariffs, compared with 33% of Americans. Canada imposed duties as high as 50% on $27.6 billion of U.S. imports, countering U.S. tariffs covering $20 billion of Canadian products. Trump later threatened 50% tariffs on imported trucks, cars, auto parts and steel starting on New Year’s Day. The poll also comes as rising energy costs and concerns about the economic impact of the Iran war weigh on Trump’s approval. Public First surveyed 2,064 U.S. adults and 2,199 Canadian adults from Sept. 13-15, with margins of error of approximately 2.2 percentage points and 2.1 percentage points, respectively.

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