We Tariffed Hockey Sticks and Exempted the Oil We Actually Need
At 12:01 AM on September 8, Canada's counter-tariffs went live — roughly 700 American products tiered at 15, 25, and 50 percent, covering nearly 28 billion Canadian dollars in goods, with steel and aluminum doubling from 25 to 50 percent. It started in July when the US reached for Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 — a statute that had sat unused for 96 years — to hit Canada with 50 percent duties on alcohol, dairy, and motor vehicles, plus an annex that quietly reaches into cement, plywood, cosmetics, and wigs. Hockey equipment got caught in the alcohol annex. But here's the part nobody's…
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