Canada Plots Broad Tariff Retaliation If Trump Starts Trade War

Canada is drawing up plans for extensive tariffs against US products if Donald Trump follows through on his threat to put 25% levies on Canadian goods, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Canadian government’s draft plans for trade retaliation go well beyond the narrow list of US-made items on which it placed counter-tariffs during a 2018 dispute, according to government officials.

Back then, Canada chose to attack certain products, such as Kentucky-made bourbon whiskey, that are exported to Canada from Republican strongholds in the US. The trade spat ended after the US, Mexico and Canada came ...