Canada’s finance minister, Dominic LeBlanc, announced retaliatory tariffs on some US imports amid a growing trade war. The measure was in response to 25% tariffs imposed by Donald Trump on Canadian steel and aluminium imports, said LeBlanc.

In the same press conference, Canada’s minister of foreign affairs, Mélanie Joly, asked Americans to tell their elected representatives that they did not want Trump to pursue a trade war against their northern neighbour