On US President Donald Trump likely to impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, Ambassador John Bolton, Former US National Security Advisor said, “Well, he had originally said he imposed the tariffs on Canada and Mexico on day one. So he’s lost at least 10 days there. You know, Canada and Mexico are the US number one and number two trading partners. So if he goes ahead with that, and it’s always important to underline the word if in dealing with Trump, but if he goes ahead with that, we could be in a trade war that could become a global trade war very quickly. And, you know, we don’t have a lot of recent experience with tariff wars, but what we did back before the Depression was not good. So the impact on the economy depends in the first instance on exactly what Trump proposes. We don’t know what …
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