Trump’s Potential Tariffs Are a Wild Card for US Economy

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Tariffs that President Donald Trump plans to slap on imports from Canada and Mexico as soon as this weekend could drive up the price of everything from gasoline and pickup trucks, to Super Bowl party guacamole dip.

Trump’s tariffs threaten to blow up the trade agreement he himself negotiated with America’s neighbors in his first term. His U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement — “the fairest, most balanced, and beneficial trade agreement we have ever signed into law,’’ Trump once declared — was supposed to bring predictability to North American trade, giving businesses the confidence to make investments.

Here are just a few of the imported goods that could be hit first.

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