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President Donald Trump is threatening to impose a 100% tariff on goods imported from Canada if America’s northern neighbor goes ahead with its trade deal with China. Trump is intensifying a feud with Prime Minister Mark Carney, who's become a rising voice in the West’s pushback to Trump's new world order. Trump said in a social media Saturday post that if Carney “thinks he is going to make Canada a “Drop Off Port” for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken.” Canada this month negotiated a deal to lower tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles in return for lower import taxes on Canadian farm products.

President Donald Trump's tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese products officially went into effect on Friday and China has responded by imposing their own tariffs on over 500 American products, including Ohio's second largest export soybeans. 

Soybeans are Ohio's top crop when it comes to agricultural exports, but as the U.S. and China continue proposing retaliatory tariffs, our farmers could start feeling the effects.