Trump's Tariffs Send Corporate Canada Reeling in Disbelief

  • ‘I just want to scream,’ says CEO of would-be bridge supplier
  • Oil and gas industry calls tariffs a ‘troubling development’

Sparks fly as an employee performs a quality check on a steel slab at a steel plant in Nanticoke, Ontario, Canada.

Photographer: Cole Burston/Bloomberg
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To get a sense of the disbelief gripping Canadian manufacturers since the U.S. imposed metal import tariffs, have a chat with Marc Dutil.

“I just want to scream,” the chief executive officer of structural-steel maker Canam Group Inc. said by phone. “All this is doing is creating uncertainty. It’s the last thing we needed.”