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by rstuart4133 20 days ago
> they do seem to be causing fewer dollars to leave the country in imports.

Hmmm.

2026-07-07 "Canada's trade surplus in May jumps to a four-year high as US exports surge": https://www.tradingview.com/news/reuters.com,2026:newsml_L4N...

2026-07-06 "US trade deficit surges amid artificial intelligence spending boom": https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/7/7/us-trade-deficit-...

If Trump's tariffs were supposed to lower the trade deficit, they haven't started working yet.