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Old 06-18-2018, 10:02 PM   #324
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Here's a rough evaluation for Canada.
Doesn't look like the US would fair too terribly..
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tra...ions-1.4710096

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For Canada, it predicts the economy would shrink 1.8 per cent.

"A ramp-up in protectionism in the U.S. results in a negative impact on growth in each of the NAFTA partners' economies," said the report, co-authored by Scotiabank's Brett House, Juan Manuel Herrera, René Lalonde and Nikita Perevalov.

Under the most aggressively protectionist scenario, the U.S. economy would contract by 0.1 per cent in 2020, the report said. Any of the scenarios in which tariffs are applied would lead to the U.S. growing less robustly than it should.
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