Dropping retaliatory tariffs against US means “surrender”, Canada believes

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Ottawa has backed away a call from Canada’s provincial governments to end retaliatory tariffs against the UnitedStates, as it would mean “unilateral surrender.”The request to drop Canada’s retaliatory 25% steel and 10% aluminium tariffs on US products was made in a recentjoint letter sent to the federal government by economic ministers from Ontario and Quebec, local media reported. Accordingto Ontario’s economic development minister Todd Smith, the tariffs are hurting industries and workers in bothcountries, and if Canada drops its countermeasure tariffs, the US could drop theirs, Metal Expert learnt.